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Smith shrug
Back · Smith machine
Target muscles
Traps
Also works
Shoulders
How to do it
- 1Stand with your feet shoulder-width apart and your knees slightly bent.
- 2Grasp the barbell with an overhand grip, hands slightly wider than shoulder-width apart.
- 3Keep your arms straight and your shoulders relaxed.
- 4Lift your shoulders up towards your ears, squeezing your traps at the top.
- 5Hold for a moment, then slowly lower your shoulders back down to the starting position.
- 6Repeat for the desired number of repetitions.
Exercise text from exercises-dataset by Hasan Emir Yıldırım, MIT License. Credits