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I will have to get me a pair also. Never tried beforeI've used Versa for years and would never go back to straps. Versas give a different level of non-slip grip.
I will have to get me a pair also. Never tried beforeI've used Versa for years and would never go back to straps. Versas give a different level of non-slip grip.
Bingo. Apparently gravity is like rocket science to most.Traps contract by pulling up and back. But i rarely see people getting anything out of the back part. And even if they try they are not pulling away from gravity so i find it doesn't amount to much.
Dude that guy was part of the first wave of mass monsters(as you know I am sure) I loved his physique. RIP
I rarely really warmed mine up. Maybe i should have. But when training infraspinatus to be stronger i would lie on a bench on my side, use bands or a pulley parallel to the ground and place myself mostly facing the pulley to get most resistance at peak contraction. Same principles when doing the supra.I laugh at all the guy in the gym with no muscle who pick up a 5lb. or 10lb. DB for shoulder warmups. I'm literally twice the size of some of these guys and I don't even use weights when I warm mine up.
I remember baby food being a thing for awhile. I read where Gary Strydom used it in prep with pics of him eating it.Not to quibble but I would say ("in my opinion") that mass monsters started in the 1980s with Lee Haney, then progressed quite a bit with the Yates-era of the 1990s.
(Art Atwood turned pro in 2001). Great bodybuilder, that's when I was first getting into it. I remember seeing him at an Arnold (maybe 2000 or so) eating what looked like a baby food jar of something and I wondered "what is that for, your pinky?".
I agree with everything you said above except in one certain instance. If you are a bodybuilder that lacks width and you get your traps so developed and big that they start to make you slightly hunch over (affect your posture) then that will make you look even more narrow.Several people now have commented about the traps being in proportion and thus not needing more stimulus. Is that the approach you take to arms? They are about as big as the rest of me, I don't want them to get too far ahead? Pecs? Shoulders?
Do you guys honestly think it would look worse to have your exact same body, every single muscle the exact same size, but bigger traps?
Even if you are competing at a high level, strong body parts don't necessarily hurt you. Especially not something like traps which really cant cause an imbalance. What can hurt a physique, with regard to imbalances, is weak muscles. Not strong muscles.
No one thought about Lee Priest, "you know his arms were ahead of the rest of his body, he would have been better off not training them so that the rest of his body could catch up."
That's not a real thing.
If you don't think big ass nasty freaky "up to the ears" traps looks awesome, hey, I guess that's you
but that certainly ain't bodybuilding
and I would venture to guess those of you telling yourself this are lying to yourself and/or have not really thought this throuigh
99% of guys saying "they are already proportional" would be, if they set themselves on building them, much happier with their look if they just hammered the traps and got the as freaky as possible
NiceYou guys may think I am insane, but I like shrugs so much, I built a "shrug machine" in the woods, on my farm. Poured a concrete cylindrical pylon around a PVC pipe, with an iron plumbing pipe running through it. Drilled out two 4x4's to fit around the iron pipe on each side, attached Olympic plate wall mount rods to each with bolts, and then placed eye bolts on top of each 4x4 to attach various types of handles and grips. Allows me to lean forward and back to adjust my angle, and gives me a lot of options for hand position. Have even used a nylon strap running over my delts on occasion (like suspenders) to lock in form and ensure that I don't bend my elbows and cheat with my biceps too much. I know it is a bit dumb, and I wish I had the build some of you monsters do so I could boast about how my ingenuity has resulted in huge traps.... but if nothing else, allows me to be outdoors while lifting heavy (for me) and getting a good trap pump.
You guys may think I am insane, but I like shrugs so much, I built a "shrug machine" in the woods, on my farm. Poured a concrete cylindrical pylon around a PVC pipe, with an iron plumbing pipe running through it. Drilled out two 4x4's to fit around the iron pipe on each side, attached Olympic plate wall mount rods to each with bolts, and then placed eye bolts on top of each 4x4 to attach various types of handles and grips. Allows me to lean forward and back to adjust my angle, and gives me a lot of options for hand position. Have even used a nylon strap running over my delts on occasion (like suspenders) to lock in form and ensure that I don't bend my elbows and cheat with my biceps too much. I know it is a bit dumb, and I wish I had the build some of you monsters do so I could boast about how my ingenuity has resulted in huge traps.... but if nothing else, allows me to be outdoors while lifting heavy (for me) and getting a good trap pump.
Thank you, brothers, for the encouragement. It means a lot to me. Truly.This is cool as hell. At the end of the day each of us does this for ourselves and our own motivations and passions. I love seeing stuff like this as it's a pure expression of how much you or someone else enjoys this endeavor we all share. My home gym is kind of mine. Sometimes I just walk around in it or sit on one of the benches. Brings me reflection and peace to have built up my own.
Appreciate the share!
By the way, I can also run a bar through the handle end of the 4x4's, apply a hip belt with chain, stand on the logs and do belt squats.
Absolute genius! That’s the coolest thing I’ve seen in a while. It looks relatively simple once you’ve seen it, but I would have never come up with that. It also looks like a great place to train.You guys may think I am insane, but I like shrugs so much, I built a "shrug machine" in the woods, on my farm. Poured a concrete cylindrical pylon around a PVC pipe, with an iron plumbing pipe running through it. Drilled out two 4x4's to fit around the iron pipe on each side, attached Olympic plate wall mount rods to each with bolts, and then placed eye bolts on top of each 4x4 to attach various types of handles and grips. Allows me to lean forward and back to adjust my angle, and gives me a lot of options for hand position. Have even used a nylon strap running over my delts on occasion (like suspenders) to lock in form and ensure that I don't bend my elbows and cheat with my biceps too much. I know it is a bit dumb, and I wish I had the build some of you monsters do so I could boast about how my ingenuity has resulted in huge traps.... but if nothing else, allows me to be outdoors while lifting heavy (for me) and getting a good trap pump.
I get better results from dumbbell shrugs but 405 is pretty easy especially on a smith machine. I think everyone hits their dick doin shrugs lolI tore my bicep in September and to train traps since then I've been loading up the hack squat with 14 plates and repping it out hise shrugs style. But yesterday I saw Nick Walker saying he was "going heavy" doing barbell shrugs with 405, and I was motivated to switch and try since my bicep is healed now. Now I was doing it on the smith machine and using wrist straps but, probably due to shrugging 14 plates on the hack all these months, 405 was way too easy. 12-15 reps easy.
What are you guys shrugging?
Also, whose else's arms are the worst length, such that the bar is getting caught on the end of your Johnson every rep?