SHOULDER TRAINING MISTAKE! - Avoid the -Traps Trap- for Bigger Shoulders
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Date: 2022-04-22
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Jack
Over developed traps with under-developed deltoids make the shoulders
look narrower. Add to this a thick neck and your shoulders look even
more narrow.
This is ANOTHER reason for not doing shrugs when doing lateral raises. It diminishes the load on the deltoids to reduce their development while working your traps a bit. Then your shoulder press works the traps more, then obviously the shrugs develop them more, then pullups even more and so on. Good luck seeing broad shoulders by over developing the traps. Traps and my neck are my biggest curse.
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Over developed traps with under-developed deltoids make the shoulders
look narrower. Add to this a thick neck and your shoulders look even
more narrow.
This is ANOTHER reason for not doing shrugs when doing lateral raises. It diminishes the load on the deltoids to reduce their development while working your traps a bit. Then your shoulder press works the traps more, then obviously the shrugs develop them more, then pullups even more and so on. Good luck seeing broad shoulders by over developing the traps. Traps and my neck are my biggest curse.
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AverageBosnian
It really doesn't matter that much in what position u do it. What matters is that you do it right, cause you can't lift as a nobrain. If you wanna be a serious lifter, you have to know antropology, nutrition and fitness like the back of your hand. It ain't simple as lifting weight, even though it looks like that. I've seen ppl get fcked up because of bad form, nutrition or supplemental mistakes. Most of todays lifters are ignorant.
The point is, Jeff knows all this and gives great advice.
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It really doesn't matter that much in what position u do it. What matters is that you do it right, cause you can't lift as a nobrain. If you wanna be a serious lifter, you have to know antropology, nutrition and fitness like the back of your hand. It ain't simple as lifting weight, even though it looks like that. I've seen ppl get fcked up because of bad form, nutrition or supplemental mistakes. Most of todays lifters are ignorant.
The point is, Jeff knows all this and gives great advice.
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sport
Always great advice. I don't mind trap involvement during my side laterals. When I want to focus more on side delts I use lower weights and when I want to hit side delts and traps together I use heavier weight. I've always viewed dumbbell side laterals as a compound movment because I like to lean slightly forward. My go to side laterals hit my side delts, front delts and upper traps all in one and I love that. It's been years since I've shrugged anything.
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Always great advice. I don't mind trap involvement during my side laterals. When I want to focus more on side delts I use lower weights and when I want to hit side delts and traps together I use heavier weight. I've always viewed dumbbell side laterals as a compound movment because I like to lean slightly forward. My go to side laterals hit my side delts, front delts and upper traps all in one and I love that. It's been years since I've shrugged anything.
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Lee
I had my humerus pop forward the other night, I've had a labrum tear and an impingement in the past and know how to handle the therapy involved usually takes a while. A year and a half ago I started back to the gym built my core back and then everything else fell in line. I followed your videos to do it. long story short it's been two days I have minimal pain and 95% of my movement back. I think I picked the right guy for training advice. Thanks Jeff.
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I had my humerus pop forward the other night, I've had a labrum tear and an impingement in the past and know how to handle the therapy involved usually takes a while. A year and a half ago I started back to the gym built my core back and then everything else fell in line. I followed your videos to do it. long story short it's been two days I have minimal pain and 95% of my movement back. I think I picked the right guy for training advice. Thanks Jeff.
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CzechRiot
It's very difficult to isolate the side delts for me, it's a structural thing, the upper traps are bigger and stronger than lower traps, it's like the body knows it and uses the muscle to exert the force necessary to move the weight. I see a lot of people doing a lot of shrugs and stuff trying to isolate the traps and make little progress. For me, just lateral raises and barbell curls make my traps look like Lou Ferrigno.
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It's very difficult to isolate the side delts for me, it's a structural thing, the upper traps are bigger and stronger than lower traps, it's like the body knows it and uses the muscle to exert the force necessary to move the weight. I see a lot of people doing a lot of shrugs and stuff trying to isolate the traps and make little progress. For me, just lateral raises and barbell curls make my traps look like Lou Ferrigno.
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capoman1
Um why would trap development BE A PROBLEM? For example, we get tricep involvement in bench press, and we are fine with it; in fact we are happy about it. SO WHY would we be upset about hitting 2 birds with one stone in the case of lateral raises?
Now if trap involvement WERE OVERPOWERING the delts, and making it hard to hit the delts, then I understand.
But I consider the trap involvement A GOOD THING!
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Um why would trap development BE A PROBLEM? For example, we get tricep involvement in bench press, and we are fine with it; in fact we are happy about it. SO WHY would we be upset about hitting 2 birds with one stone in the case of lateral raises?
Now if trap involvement WERE OVERPOWERING the delts, and making it hard to hit the delts, then I understand.
But I consider the trap involvement A GOOD THING!
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Joe
I been lifttiing weights and never got into all that shoulder stuff. li don't like excercises you have to do all perfeect or you'll blow your shit out. exercise and health benefits from weight lifting and body building are 2 different things. body building is putting your body through hell to win a contest. you can't workout like 12 months a year. some people don't understand that and end up hurting them selves
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I been lifttiing weights and never got into all that shoulder stuff. li don't like excercises you have to do all perfeect or you'll blow your shit out. exercise and health benefits from weight lifting and body building are 2 different things. body building is putting your body through hell to win a contest. you can't workout like 12 months a year. some people don't understand that and end up hurting them selves
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LJGaming
this is exactly what happened to me. I just started working out and i did an absolute monster shoulder workout and the next day, which is today, my shoulders are not sore whatsoever, but my traps cannot even move, i swear raising my arms at all engages the muscle and, i feel it immediately. What a waste of an exercise.
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this is exactly what happened to me. I just started working out and i did an absolute monster shoulder workout and the next day, which is today, my shoulders are not sore whatsoever, but my traps cannot even move, i swear raising my arms at all engages the muscle and, i feel it immediately. What a waste of an exercise.
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zarreff
You got huge traps just from doing the shoulder exercise funny? I actually want to work on making my traps big. I was focused on my lats so much that I neglected my traps for so long lol. I can do bent over rows of 116 pounds for 20 reps, 3 sets. but then my traps lol well not SO great: )
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You got huge traps just from doing the shoulder exercise funny? I actually want to work on making my traps big. I was focused on my lats so much that I neglected my traps for so long lol. I can do bent over rows of 116 pounds for 20 reps, 3 sets. but then my traps lol well not SO great: )
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Mickha
Started with a trainer a month ago. I suspect he isn't as professional as he lead me to believe. Everytime we do back or shoulders I can feel my traps involved. Is it my form? They weight is too high? Someone help I dont want to end up having huge traps (I'm a woman)
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Started with a trainer a month ago. I suspect he isn't as professional as he lead me to believe. Everytime we do back or shoulders I can feel my traps involved. Is it my form? They weight is too high? Someone help I dont want to end up having huge traps (I'm a woman)
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