Shrug (Smith Machine)
Standing under a Smith machine, raise the shoulders straight up toward the ears against the guided bar, then lower.
- Pattern
- Back
- Equipment
- Machine
- Works
- Upper back, forearms
- Loads
- Shoulders, neck, wrists
How Swolver coaches it
This lift is read from your own sessions. When it goes flat for four weeks, Swolver names the likely cause in plain words, such as weekly sets that dropped, and the one change to make. The rules are all on the method page.