Shrugs

Teaching points

• Stand upright with your feet shoulder width apart and knees slightly bent
  
  
• Hold a dumbbell in each hand with the arms straight by your sides and palms facing in
  
  
• Keep your arms straight as you shrug your shoulders, aiming to lift the weight as high as possible

Variations & progressions

• Barbell shrug - perform exactly the same movement using a barbell

Muscles worked

• Trapezius

Related injuries

• Postural Kyphosis