Traps · Machine

Shrug (Cable)

Back exercise with a machine. Works the back.

Traps Machine Weights

The same demo you get in the app. Tap any exercise there for its stats and history.

How to do it

Shrug (Cable), step by step

  1. 01

    Attach a straight bar to a low cable pulley and grip it overhand at shoulder width.

  2. 02

    Stand tall with your arms straight and the bar in front of your thighs.

  3. 03

    Shrug your shoulders straight up toward your ears.

  4. 04

    Hold the squeeze at the top without rolling your shoulders.

  5. 05

    Lower slowly against the cable and repeat.

Shrug (Cable) in Trainlike

Your next weight is already set.

Log this lift and Trainlike reads your sets against your best. Close out your rep range and the next workout opens with the weight moved up.

Come up short and it eases back by the real distance your sets showed, then climbs again as soon as you do. Every verdict opens the receipt: the number you had to beat and the sets that beat it.

+5 LBSMATCH YOUR BESTEASING BACK −5 LBS

How verdicts work in the user guide.

Train it, get it graded.

Log the Shrug (Cable) in Trainlike and every workout comes back with a grade, the evidence, and your next target.

Download on the App Store

First three workouts free, insights included.