Bodybuilding can provide you with burly muscles, those are immediate or direct precursor of strength and power. The most amazing news is you just need your dumbbells and nothing else at all. The muscles in the hub of upper back helps you elevate and revolve your scapula plus provide a constant support to the arms. They usually grow out of neck and make a bulge over shoulders making it like a trapezoid. And therefore name after such a shape as ‘Traps’.
As well shaped or burly traps give you colossal structure and make you look strong; this makes it a dream for everyone to have such traps. For instance, WWE wrestlers such as Brock Lesnar possess traps which are worth noting. There are various exercises that can give you huge traps such as barbell, traps bar, or even cables but most effective and efficient one is with your set of dumbbells, i.e., dumbbell shrug.
First, let me point out the one downside of dumbbell shrugs, perhaps a minor issue, but nevertheless it can cause a degree of problems for some.
The biggest advantage of dumbbell shrugs over most other shrug exercises is the arm positioning. Dumbbells allow your arms to hang from your body in their more natural position, by your side.
The dumbbells shrug helps your arms to maintain a natural position during workout which is never possible with the barbell shrugs. Although, trap bar provides you the same position to the same extent but it is not economical to be expensed at home.
You need to be really careful while performing the Dumbbell Shrug and can initiate the process of workout by placing a pair of heavy dumbbells at the base, either at each side. Then, distant your legs apart and kneel down to grab dumbbells appropriately. Once you are settled, push up the dumbbells and straighten your back. Maintain a good level of the dumbbells with your thighs keeping your palms inward. Then, raise your shoulders upwards using only trap muscles. Stop temporarily at the top and move again back to your scratch position.
There are several points to be kept in mind while performing dumbbells shrugs during your bodybuilding workouts to avoid any injury. They may include keeping your arms straight while holding dumbbells, lifting and lowering the dumbbells gradually, not rotating muscles in an incorrect direction and not squeezing your traps at the top of movement of your muscles. You are also advised to use straps to make the grip stronger and bring variation in number of sets and reps during your bodybuilding workout exercises.
Following the above mentioned exercise in bodybuilding would surely be ensuing productivity in muscular strength and building burly fashioned traps.
