Thread 76459504

why is it so hard to grow

>>76459504 (OP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NWxKUGvh4Y

This shit works, just drop a weight a bit so you can do it properly

is it...? i feel like it's my most noticeable thing after my arms

I dont know.

>>76459504 (OP)
my traps are effortlessly big from years of chronic cervicalgia

>>76459504 (OP)
Because you're not doing power shrugs
https://m.youtube.com/shorts/EEa_YnqlWZg

>>76459504 (OP)
Power shrugs, Alphadestiny is right. I've prioritised power shrugs since I started the gym, I'm natty so they're not especially huge but they're my strongest muscle and disproportionately bugger than the rest of me mooscles

>>76459504 (OP)
Shrug up and inward toward your neck.

Don't shrug backward at all. Use straps so you can do farmer carries immediately afterward when you're done shrugging to failure. Works much better.

Just heavy weights and play around with the 7-10 rep range.

>>76459504 (OP)
Bend forward a little bit and shrug backwards as well as up

>>76459513
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>>76459623
do I have low trap insertions? it feels like they dont grow "upwards"

>>76459655
Why are you lifting your shoulders up like that anyways when trying to see how big your traps are? Wtf kind of posing is this?

>>76459663
its the only way I can see them because they are non existent from the front

>>76459655
Needs some work but I can absolutely make you into a suitable wife

>>76459588
This. Drop sets encouraging a pump, essentially.

>>76459504 (OP)
Because you're not using enough weight, use heavier dumbbells even if it means using wrist straps.

Like lats I’m convinced a lot of it is down to posture and genetics. My traps (one more than the other) are massive, I don’t train them directly and I’m DYEL otherwise.

>>76459504 (OP)

It's dead easy, you just gotta do some combination of Dumbbell OHP, heavy deadlift and squats, nothing else required.

>>76459504 (OP)
dread it, run from it, deadlifts still arrive

>>76459504 (OP)
try carrying a bodyweight sandbag for hundreds of metres, or the same weight per hand with farmer handles.

>>76460283
this

Heavy deadlifts are the key. Snatch grip high pulls help too.

>>76459670
Bruh learn to pose. Roll your shoulders forward (push your elbows back) and you'll figure out how to activate your traps. Nobody sees their traps maxed out from the front, in bodybuilding shows they do The Strongest pose to show them off. I think you're insertion-coping.
>Me for reference, not flexing (opposite of what I just said), powershrugs only.

>>76459504 (OP)
You have misconception of what the trapezius muscle actually is. Its not only the top part. Also you probably don't go to failure. Who knows how weak you are. Whats ur max DL?

>>76460666
BOOBA

>>76459504 (OP)
i like underhand narrow grip shrugs and rackpulls for fuller rom for front deep and wide traps. also just mmcing traps on rows/pullups.

>>76459504 (OP)
you're not singing "grow grow grow"

You can go ridiculously heavy on these especially on a smith machine. 3pl8 easily after a few weeks 4pl8 by a year 4x8-10. My traps exploded from doing that.

>>76459655
Low trap insertions are better. High insertions make people look retarded when clothed

>>76459504 (OP)
Just do arm windmills and you're good

>>76459504 (OP)
genetics and not eating enough

>>76459504 (OP)
If you can't grow it, you clearly don't need it to grow?
What is with you retards

>>76461239
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwbwKM051wU
I can't go that high :/

>>76459577
>https://m.youtube.com/shorts/EEa_YnqlWZg
>>76459513
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NWxKUGvh4Y [Embed]
>yt roider tells u to load gym on a bar and jiggle
>famous blobybuilder tells u to pinch shit between scaps - same idiot that blew biceps doing heavy barbell rows

NO
u do this:
>>76459521
>I dont know.
exactly this, but u keep spine straight and don't bob your head forward - keep double chin - and that's it :D just shoulders to ears, don't hold the weight, use 2 light dumbbells and just rest them in your palms, don't grip don't bend elbows, straight up AND HOLD

the reason traps are not growing is because u are not using them, u are not doing the *i do not know* motion, traps, levator scapulae, sternocleidomastoid are not used enough when u bob your head forward jiggling weight that's orders of magnitutde too high for the movement

>>76459504 (OP)
snatch grip deadlifts and power cleans

>>76459577
power shrugs are a recipe to get kicked out of the gym coz you're hogging all the plates to do hundreds of shrugs

>>76459504 (OP)
i got the best results using a barbell in the power rack (home gym masterrace). set the bar so you only have to lift it an inch or less, load that fucker up heavy and do your shrugs. I mean real heavy. you'll be surprise what you can actually lift.

>>76459504 (OP)
haha it's like the guy is answering OPs question like idk man. haha

My imperfect form rack pulls and deadlifts seem to blow them up for me personally. I've been meaning to do more isolation but I'm not sure I really have to.

>>76464950
this, keep your core tight and use your legs to get the weight up and get a good stretch at the bottom. my traps are so big that my mid back looks like shit in comparison

>>76460666
you look like a bottom, I wanna fuck you

>>76466389
Ew