Dumbbell shrug

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Dumbbell shrug

Back · Dumbbell

Target muscles

Traps

Also works

Shoulders

How to do it

  1. 1Stand with your feet shoulder-width apart and hold a dumbbell in each hand with your palms facing your body.
  2. 2Keep your arms straight and let the dumbbells hang by your sides.
  3. 3Raise your shoulders as high as possible, as if you are trying to touch your ears with your shoulders.
  4. 4Hold the contraction for a second, then slowly lower your shoulders back down to the starting position.
  5. 5Repeat for the desired number of repetitions.

Exercise text from exercises-dataset by Hasan Emir Yıldırım, MIT License. Credits