How often do you do traps?

My body responds to trap workout very well. Personally i don't find huge traps so appealing, don't get me wrong, they look nice if you are very built but for some people they look disproportionate to the rest of an underdeveloped body.

July 2008:

Status: Cutting
Age:17
Height: 6'3
Weight: 226 lbs

Supplements:
ON 100% Whey
Fish Oil
Multi Vitamins

How often?

every time I deadlift

current 3x3 max's (Work in progress)
Squat:325
Deadlift:380
Bench:265
BB Row:225
My lifting journal
http://strengthmill.net/forum/showthread.php?p=16591#post16591

every time i do shoulders........

I treat them like most other muscle groups. If I am doing a split with high volume for each muscle, then everything gets a week to recover (except abs and calves). If I am doing low volume full body training then I train them every time I go to the gym, if I am squatting and not deadlifting that day I will do shrugs. If I deadlift, then my traps get all they need.

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ORIGINAL: Yet

Usually when I get to the top of my deadlift I'll do a reverse-grip curl.

Every time I do deadlifts, shrugs, barbell curls, etc, basically they get worked when I lift something off the ground. Traps are probably some of the few muscles I can see flexed well on my back...

188LBs, 5'11", BF% = high, 18%? 19Y/o (morning weight)
Deadlift: 1X1, 285Lbs
F-BB-Bench: 1X5, 205Lbs
Pullups: 13
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Traps get worked in lots of exercises but they're always sore after days when I do cleans and snatches.

5'6" 125/ Bench: 115 / Front squat: 90 / Deadlift: 205 / Pullups: 10

Ah, had no idea deadlifts worked on traps. Perhaps that is why mine are growing at such an alarming speed, any bigger and i will look like a pencil, perhaps i should lay off the shrugs and limit it to once a month.

And yes I understand you guys workout your traps at your designated shrug/deadlift/shoulder day, what I meant was do you limit the amount you work them out since bodies tend to respond well to the workout. Or maybe its just me.

July 2008:

Status: Cutting
Age:17
Height: 6'3
Weight: 226 lbs

Supplements:
ON 100% Whey
Fish Oil
Multi Vitamins

It could just be your genetics.

I find that deadlifts, cleans and snatchs work your traps just fine. I would avoid any isolations like shrugs if your really that bothered about them...but there going to get worked regardless because of those other big exercises.

ORIGINAL: Nir Chernia

Ah, had no idea deadlifts worked on traps. Perhaps that is why mine are growing at such an alarming speed, any bigger and i will look like a pencil, perhaps i should lay off the shrugs and limit it to once a month.

And yes I understand you guys workout your traps at your designated shrug/deadlift/shoulder day, what I meant was do you limit the amount you work them out since bodies tend to respond well to the workout. Or maybe its just me.

current 3x3 max's (Work in progress)
Squat:325
Deadlift:380
Bench:265
BB Row:225
My lifting journal
http://strengthmill.net/forum/showthread.php?p=16591#post16591

i do em with shoulders alternating week to week with bb and db's i just give em 5-6 sets every shoulder workout
 
and of course they get indirectly worked on back day

6ft 1in
272

Hm, okay so I'll just work them indirectly from now on. Thanks a lot guys

July 2008:

Status: Cutting
Age:17
Height: 6'3
Weight: 226 lbs

Supplements:
ON 100% Whey
Fish Oil
Multi Vitamins

I do direct trap work on shoulder day...which happens to be today!!!!
I love working traps!

Current supps: Cell Tech,Superpump 250,Animal pak,ON 100% whey

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Did someone say disproportionate traps???

ORIGINAL: quickfinch

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Did someone say disproportionate traps???

Guy looks like a linebacker. Nothing wrong with that. I love that sloped look from traps up to the ears. I hate guys with shoulders that go strait across.

I'm with the OP. My traps grow at an alarming rate so I don't do any direct work but you can't help them getting hit just the same.

5'6" 125/ Bench: 115 / Front squat: 90 / Deadlift: 205 / Pullups: 10

He's all traps, there's no shoulder either side. I don't usually criticize other mens physiques but he is totally unbalanced. His shoulders are too narrow for his trap height.

I think what you're seeing has to do with the angle of the picture. His head isn't strait on with his body so he looks narrower than he is.

5'6" 125/ Bench: 115 / Front squat: 90 / Deadlift: 205 / Pullups: 10