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Shrugs DB

Profile:    Compound exercise for the major neck muscles

Suitability:    Beginner / Intermediate / Advanced

Target Muscles:    Trapezius

Equipment:    Dumbells, Mirror

Start / End Phase

Mid Phase  

• Use a weight that allows you to control the exercise with strict form suited to your training goals

• Take a hip width stance with your toes turned slightly out. Take the dumbells and let your arms hang down the side of your body

• Use the drag & lock technique by bending your elbows slightly

• Inhale, then exhale whilst contracting your shoulders and shrugging them upwards. Do not use your arms to pull the dumbells up

• Inhale whilst lowering the dumbells back to the starting position but do not lock out

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