traps & neck are they the same?

[evomad]

are traps and neck the same?

been on bodybuilding.com and shows you pics of traps and pics of neck and they look like there showing the same thing?

if doing strugs does that workout traps and neck???

[evomad]

i take it that no one noes???

[Big]

traps are the muscles at each side of your neck that many people call "neck muscles"

[evomad]

right so they are both the same workout yes?

[CSAR]

Not necessarily. Doing shrugs primarily targets the upper and mid portions of your traps. If you want to work the entire neck, there are multiple angles and exercises you need to incorporate.

The neck can be divided into two triangles, the anterior and posterior triangles, separated by the sternocleidomastoid muscles.

If you want to build the muscles of the anterior triangle, you need to do anterior flexion exercises. Likewise, if you want to build the sternocleidomastoid muscles, you need to do lateral flexion and torsion exercises. Doing posterior flexion exercises will work the trap attachments to the base of your skull as well as the deeper muscles of the posterior triangle that I haven't mentioned.

[Lavinco]

You tell me?

[magic32]

Not necessarily. Doing shrugs primarily targets the upper and mid portions of your traps. If you want to work the entire neck, there are multiple angles and exercises you need to incorporate.

traps are the muscles at each side of your neck that many people call "neck muscles"

I agree with you both!!!
They are indeed separate muscle groups as cited by CSAR, but for bb'er purposes that do not require specialized neck-oriented exercises (but rather trap work), they are synonymous as pointed out by Big.

FUNNY POST/PICS LACINCO!