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Shrugs

We recommend using one of these resistance bands to do this exercise:
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Follow these steps

  1. Step on the band with both feet (shoulder width apart) and grab the band with both hands
  2. Hold your hands close to the sides of your hips
  3. Bring your shoulders straight up (without bending your arms or moving your head down)
  4. Return slowly to the starting position (resist against the pull of the band)
  5. Repeat for reps

Muscles Trained

Form Mistakes

No tension in the band means no resistance and this means that your muscles are not working. We don’t want that. To avoid this mistake grab the band closer towards your feet and make sure there is no slack in the band in the starting position.

This might feel better but it actually makes you lose a lot of peak contraction and slow down your progress. Shrugs are an isolation exercise so you will target your traps specifically and work them in their own so don’t use any other muscles during this exercise.

Adjust the resistance

This is the simplest and fastest way to adjust the resistance of a band. Wrapping it around your hand will shorten the band and therefore increase the resistance you will have to work against.

You did get yourself a set of resistance bands right? Having a set enables you to combine bands to get the right resistance. What I like to do is adding the lightest band to the exercise once I feel it gets easier to get my reps in.

Variations

Bent-Over Shrugs - Close Hands

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Hit your chest and back muscles in the first part of this workout and finish off with plyo movements in the second part.
Please select what type of resistance bands you use.
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Challenge your lower body with this plyometrics workout to get the lungs going and the lower body pumping.
Please select what type of resistance bands you use.
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This cardio session incorporates resistance bands to make it effective and not repetitive.
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Strong legs and glutes is what you get after doing this workout. Let's go!
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