The dumbbell shrug exercise involves holding two dumbbells down at your sides and shrugging your shoulders up and back down again. It’s a variation of the shrug exercise that isolates your ...

The traps (trapezius muscles) span from the middle of your back and neck to your shoulders, and the best way to target them ...

Secondly, the key function of your traps you train when you shrug is that of elevating your shoulder blades. You can execute that same motion whether you're looking at the ground or looking ...

Instead, you should be aiming to squeeze and drop our shoulders — called scapular depression. The continuous upward driving and squeezing motion of the shrug is the opposite. The minimal gains ...