Weight Lifting Exercises: Front Barbell Shrugs

Video Transcript

"What I'll be performing here is the Barbell Front Shrug. What you want to do here is grab a barbell, some people do it on a smooth machine, you could do a free weight with the barbell. All this is doing is building your traps. You want to bring your traps up as far up as possible. You want to, sometimes people say, you know, go for the ears, so bring them up as far as possible, flex them and then bring it down. The barbell should just be dead weight. You shouldn't use your arms to bring up the weight, just your traps. Alright. Continue this motion, if it's heavy heavy weight, which is to build real thick traps, you probably want to do about six to eight reps. If it's real lightweight, just to try to cut them up, you want to do about eight to ten reps. Overall, do about three to four sets, focus on flexing the traps and stretching it out when you bring it down. And that's how you do the Barbell Front Traps."