Exercise Info
| Level | Beginner |
| Muscle Group | Traps |
| Secondary Muscle | None |
| Exercise Type | Strength |
| Equipment Required | Barbell |
| Force Type | Pull |
| rating | 3 |
Tips
- Focus on lifting the weight with your traps and not your biceps.
- Pausing at the top of the barbell shrug makes the exercise more challenging and youll get more out of it. Try and pause for a count of 1-3 at the top of each rep.
- Theres no benefit to roll your shoulders forward or back when you shrug - thats a myth!
- Just raise the barbell straight up and straight down.
Instructions
- Set up for the standing barbell shrug by loading up the weight you want to use on a straight bar or Olympic bar.
- Stand facing the bar with your feet about shoulder width apart.
- Grasp the bar with an overhand grip (palms facing down), with your hands about shoulder width apart.
- Bending at the knees only, pick the barbell up off the floor.
- Keeping the barbell close to your body, let your shoulders "sag" as far as possible. This is the starting position for the exercise.
- Slowly shrug your shoulders up as far as possible.
- Pause, and then slowly lower the barbell back to the starting position.
- Repeat for desired reps.