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 ...

But everyone from bodybuilders to average Joes have butchered the shrug, from the way they approach the exercise to the way ...

The shrug is a "good example of a universal gesture that is used to show that a person doesn't know or doesn't understand what you are saying," they write. "It's a multiple gesture that has three ...