4 Traps Training Tips

4 Traps Training Tips
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The traps make up a large portion of your back. In today’s post I will show you 3 practical tips to improve traps development, swipe left for more.
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Many people look at doing shrugs for developing the traps, but your traps actually also get trained during your typical horizontal and vertical pulling exercises. Your traps have 3 regions, the upper, mid, and low-traps. Training a variety of horizontal and vertical pull movements in which your elbows are flared helps with engaging the traps.
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Also, make sure you actively protract and then again retract your scapula whenever you do pull exercises. The traps help protract and depress the scapula. You can train this movement pattern during exercises like rows by letting your shoulder blades move forward and back more freely.
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Now, about shrugs, the muscle fibers of your upper traps run diagonally. So to train the upper traps effectively during shrugs it’s actually beneficial to maintain a wide-grip. Having your arms at a roughly 30-degree angle ensures you are better engaging the upper traps. Also, doing Butterfly Side Raises helps target the upper traps effectively by upwardly rotating the scapula.
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Lastly, your traps stabilize the scapula, so any exercise that involves you holding a heavy weight like deadlifts help train the traps. You can also include Farmers Walks in your routine to train the traps by holding heavy loads.