Group: General Fitness & Exercise

General Fitness & Exercise
Created: 2011/12/31, Members: 382, Messages: 54581

Various general exercise related discussions. Find out what it takes to reach your fitness goals through daily effective exercise. With so many options we try to find out what works best.

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shrugs

SHELTYMAC
SHELTYMAC
Posts: 21
Joined: 2002/01/09
United States
2002/03/30, 03:25 PM
i have started doing shrugs and i was wandering why i can only do 4 sets of 8 at 130lbs i have decent sized traps. Its pretty weird seeing how i can deadlift almost 300lb and bench almost 280, and i can't use more weight on shrugs its pretty ridicoulous. Is it ok to lift light on these. Any suggestions will help. Also im using barbell free weights.
Philia2
Philia2
Posts: 4,078
Joined: 2001/10/19
France
2002/03/31, 01:06 AM
Well body building (especially when wanting to build mass!!) has not very much to do with taking heavy but instead about the technic and the FEELING of the given exercise.
If you still feel the trapezius work and you get results then why worry about the weight?!!!

By the way, deadlift and bench press are compound exercises which is not the case with the shrugs. Only one muscle is working there. Maybe that's also one of the reasons why you cannot take that heavy. You simply cannot compare those exercise.

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SHELTYMAC
SHELTYMAC
Posts: 21
Joined: 2002/01/09
United States
2002/03/31, 09:29 AM
thanks philia i guess that is true, i just wont go heavy and make sure i am doing them right.
mikencharleston
mikencharleston
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United States
2002/03/31, 05:07 PM
If you're stuck where you're at, try doing some partials after you've gone to failure with full reps. Also, try super setting some military presses using ascending sets for about 5 sets, no rest. That'll beef up the area around the traps.
zed_luv
zed_luv
Posts: 10
Joined: 2002/02/10
United Kingdom
2002/04/07, 03:05 PM
can i ask how in the hell did that guy in incredible hulk get those giagantic sized trapz. i mean like one of those trapezius is probably bigger than my thighs. can any of u gimme any ideas of building the trapezius muscles rapidly- light or heavy, few reps or many reps, No.of sets, etc.
thanx