What to EDT with shrugs?

Gotsouthern · Post by **Gotsouthern** » Tue Sep 21, 2010 11:10 pm

Shrugs are one of my favorites, I love building up my traps, one of my favorite show-off muscles lol. Anyhow, I'd love some advise on one or two lifts to complement/properly oppose shrugs in an EDT block.

scump · Post by **scump** » Wed Sep 22, 2010 12:59 am

EDT blocks dont necessarily have to complement, infact i think if they both targeted the same muscle it would cause you to burn out faster...

how a bout calf raises?

Big.jazayrli · Post by **Big.jazayrli** » Wed Sep 22, 2010 2:00 am

I do mine with pushups!

Its amazing how light a BW exercise feels when supersetted with 500lb+ shrugs

Hank! · Post by **Hank!** » Wed Sep 22, 2010 6:27 am

I use standing Push Press or Incline DB Press

RobRegish · Post by **RobRegish** » Wed Sep 22, 2010 6:51 am

You'd want to pair with an antagonistic exercise, if at all possible. Hank's suggestion is spot on, as usual

Gotsouthern · Post by **Gotsouthern** » Wed Sep 22, 2010 2:09 pm

Very nice suggestions, thanks guys. Rob, I know for my custom program there aren't any true-to-the-letter EDT's in there, but I've got a running Word doc with lots of notes for future use, so this will get tucked in there. I'm just a freak for some shrugs so I had to ask. Thanks again guys.

RobRegish · Post by **RobRegish** » Wed Sep 22, 2010 7:40 pm

Melikes shrugs too. I like those top range rack pulls even better though. If you get a chance, check out the video here:

Top Range Rack Pull with Static Hold - Big Jaz shows us how its done!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NOpBDbFMm8