Smith back shrug

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Smith back shrug

Back · Smith machine

Target muscles

Traps

Also works

Shoulders

How to do it

  1. 1Stand with your feet shoulder-width apart and your knees slightly bent.
  2. 2Grasp the barbell with an overhand grip, hands slightly wider than shoulder-width apart.
  3. 3Keep your arms straight and allow the barbell to hang in front of your thighs.
  4. 4Lift your shoulders straight up towards your ears, squeezing your traps at the top.
  5. 5Hold for a moment, then lower your shoulders back down to the starting position.
  6. 6Repeat for the desired number of repetitions.

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