The overhead shrug can rebalance the shoulders and make them feel pain ... Press a bar overhead as you would in a military press. Hold it at the top. Brace your core, squeeze your glutes and ...

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 ...

This trademark trapezius muscle exercise is overrated, and when it comes to a productive shoulder workout, shrugs are more underwhelming than ... already working the muscle each time you do sets of ...