TRAP bar deads

[JKurz1]

Anybody use these regularly?? I feel like I get a better squeez because it's a more compact movement......you use high or low reps for best benefit? Hits the quads pretty nicely too.......karma....

 

[HollywoodSwole]

Something about the grip on those things makes it hard for me to do on a regular basis, but I really like doing it since it can slightly change the angles that you're working with, which I think is important to keep your body guessing. I guess there's something to be said for wearing gloves.

 

[JKurz1]

anyone else?

 

[Liftbig]

i used to do them all the time in high school, untill i outgrew the bar. now when i try to pick it up im too wide, and the handles hit my legs and prevent me from locking out in anyway. i have been using it lately for a shoulder press variation, and i like it alot.

 

[Liftbig]

ok i dont agree that trap bar deads are one of the best exercises you can do. i do not do them. but i love variation, and if you have one, then maybe occaisonally doing trap bar deads for a change up is a good thing. everyone can benefit from adding a little variety to thier workouts. personally the trap bar puts me at a huge mechanical disadvantage, i.e. it forces my knees in becuase im so wide. that would be dangerous for me to spend time on this exercise. i have been experimenting with them for overhead presses, and for tricep extensions and i like it so far.

 

[PlatnumKowboy]

In my opinion trap bar deads are only good at bringing up your trap bar deadlift. It doesn't transfer over to a conventional or sumo deadlift.

Jkurz1- someone correct me if I'm wrong but shocking the muscles is an old outdated theory.

 

[louden_swain]

I tried the trap bar years ago and I didn't like it. I felt that certain muscles were not stressed enough. Besides, the grip is fixed, as a bar you can vary the width of the grip. Golds gym where I train no longer has a trap bar. Olympic bars, tons of plates, and power racks are all I need.

 

[casualbb]

Okay...

Differences between trap bar deadlift and regular deadlift:

More knee flexion, less hip flexion.

Looks basically like a squat, but instead of bar resting on traps/delts it's beind held.

Effects: more quad recruitment, slightly less ham/glute recruitment, equal trap recruitment (weight is still held), less erector recruitment (you don't bend over as much).

B -- your theory that trap bar deadlift doesn't carry over is completely unfounded. Would you agree that a squat carries over to a deadlift? Because a trap bar deadlift is more similar to a regular deadlift than a squat is.

A trap deadlift is a squat/deadlift hybrid. Both are useful motions. Why is the trap deadlift, then, useless?

WSB, which a lot of you trap-deadlift-bashers perform or agree with, acknowledges how similar squat and deadlift are by lumping them together into "lower body" speed and maximal days.

So, please, a trap bar deadlift is just another tool, no better or worse than a regular deadlift, just different.

 

[sinjinsmythe33]

never did them. looks like it would be tough to do cleans with the trap bar.

 

[spatts]

I've never done trap bar deads, but I'm up for any fun variation that will work. Personally, I think I would use a piece like that for heavy oblique and grip work.