Dumbbell Shrug

Back · Dumbbell · ×2 dumbbells

You hold two: the weight you log is ONE dumbbell's, and volume counts both.

How to do it

A dumbbell in each hand at your sides, arms straight, shoulders relaxed down. Shrug straight up, squeeze for a second and lower slowly. With dumbbells the range is slightly longer than with a bar and there are no thighs in the way. You feel the upper traps. Mind your neck: the head stays still, only the shoulders move.

Variants

The drawing shows one way of doing it, and the technique above describes that one. Almost every exercise has variants — standing or seated, the grip, the bench angle — and is still the same exercise: if you do it another way, write it in the exercise note and you will have it every time you train it.

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