Band shrug

How to do it

1. 1Stand with your feet shoulder‑width apart and place the band under your feet, holding the ends in your hands.
2. 2Keep your arms straight and relaxed, letting the band hang in front of your thighs.
3. 3Activate your traps by shrugging your shoulders upward, pulling the band as high as possible.
4. 4Hold the contraction briefly, then lower your shoulders slowly back to the start.
5. 5Repeat for the desired number of reps.

More traps exercises

• Dumbbell incline shrugDumbbells
• Lever gripless shrugLeverage machine
• Smith back shrugSmith machine
• Lever gripless shrug v. 2Leverage machine
• Dumbbell decline shrug v. 2Dumbbells
• Dumbbell decline shrugDumbbells
• Cable shrugCable
• Scapula dipsBodyweight

This page is for information and doesn’t replace a professional. If you have an injury or a medical condition, ask first. Data from the open catalogue hasaneyldrm/exercises-dataset, MIT licence.