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Jkurz1- someone correct me if I'm wrong but shocking the muscles is an old outdated theory.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

 

[Liftbig]

didnt this thread have like 60 responses, what happened?

 

[JOKER47]

didnt this thread have like 60 responses, what happened?

House-cleaning.......

 

[louden_swain]

Anybody use these for SLDL's.

Kinda like to use it for these when my back feels overly beat.

I just created a post asking the same question, but it didn't show up.

I think its a good idea.

 

[Vulgar_Display_Of_Power]

Anybody use these for SLDL's.

Kinda like to use it for these when my back feels overly beat.

 

[b fold the truth]

Interesting...even my good points were deleted...even the ones about the lack of carry over from trap bar deadlifts to any other exercise in the gym...

I have one, don't like it, does nothing for me, and for me it builds nothing more than the trap bar deadlift.

B True

 

[PolishHammer1977]

I dont like and it and do not aspire to use it.

 

[Cuthbert]

Used it once around the time I started deadlifting.

I still deadlift today.

Haven't picked up the trap bar since.

 

[powerforward]

why were the responses deleted?

 

[spatts]

I deleted the responses where people started debating eachother's intelligence with low blows. If you intermixed low blows with solid info, then you're going to have to retype it. I saved the responses that were on topic.


Now can we get back to the trap bar?

 

[MrTrap]

While I didn't like the trap bar myself, that was because I had been DLing so long. You can make it just like a DL (or SLDL) except for grip; it all depends on how you upright you keep your torso and how much you let your hands go forward. If you go straight up and down it is like a bad partial squat though.

Traps

 

[Lumberg]

Wow spatts ruling with an iros fist I see!

Alright I just wanted to share this really cool site, which addresses those of you who have problems with fitting in a trap bar.

THe company is iron horse aka piedmont design associates (PDA) aka fractionalplates.com

THey make custom barbells of all kinds and have several designs for trap bars.

THe amazing thing is that the prices are reasonable.

This is just a fun site to browse, I'm all stocked up on equipment for now but it's fun to dreamwhat does one do with a 4" diameter grip OLY bar?!?!?! (MONGO)

Here's a pic of a couple different designs: