Kelso's Shrug Book
By ordering a brand new Gerard Trap Bar YOU will be a part of strength history,
so we want to do something special to get you off on the right foot.
This 95-page training guide features the basics of Paul Kelso's "Shrug" System,
a unique training principle which will allow you to train your muscles in ways
that they have never been trained before. You'll learn over 20 different
kinds of shrug variations, including:
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- The Bench Shrug
- The Dip Shrug
- The Standing Shrug
- The Overhead Shrug
- The Hise Breathing Shrug
- The Sternum Shrug
- And many, many more!
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At the cornerstone of Paul Kelso's shrug system is the Gerard Trap Bar,,
which Kelso has been writing about since its invention in the mid-1980's.
In the book, Paul Kelso devotes an entire chapter specifically to Trap Bar use and will
teach you several different workout routines, the nine basic Trap
Bar movements, and the five different components of proper Trap Bar form.
Also included in the book is an entire chapter devoted to rib cage
expansion techniques -- a valuable
subject that you rarely see discussed these days.
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One of The Best Training
Guides I've Ever Seen
Back as a young trainee, Paul Kelso was finishing up a workout of cleans
and bent over rows. One day, without thinking, Kelso carelessly bent over to move
the bar out of the way and sort of heaved it out of the way --
he felt a sharp response in his lower traps; something he had never felt before.
He then picked up the bar in a bent over rowing stance and "shrugged" it again... same response.
That day, he experimented with the bent over row using as many different hand
placements as possible, and felt a different muscle group
response with each variation.
The soreness that he experienced the next day let him know he was onto something, and the
"Shrug" principle became his hallmark. Over the next few decades
Paul Kelso wrote many different training articles espousing the
benefits of the "shrug principle."
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Paul Kelso's Shrug Book
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Back in the early 1990's Paul Kelso wrote the definitive
guide to the "Shrug" principle (which also happened to be extremely conducive to
training with the Trap Bar due to its hand placement and design advantages).
It was just a small booklet but the training information
in it was top notch, including many different shrug variations, including shrug variations
for Olympic and Power Lifters and the outstanding Bone Structure and Growth Course.
In 2002 Paul Kelso revised and expanded his original shrug
course into Kelso's Shrug Book.
I was lucky enough to get a copy early on and found Kelso's Shrug Book to
be one of the very best training courses I have ever seen - and
I've seen a lot of them.
Here's a look:
- The history of the "Shrug" principle
- The 3-exercise bulk and thickness program
- Shrug Training for the bench press and the 4 best movements for building the "lateral arch"
- How to perform cable crossover machine shrugs
- Shrug variations for the snatch, clean & jerk, and deadlift
- How to do the Hise Shrug - "Power style" for big gains
- A complete two-day lifting schedule (the exact routine Paul Kelso
used as he segued into heavy duty schedules for powerlifting)
- The Powerlifting "Pre-Competition Phase" Workout
- Al Gerard's Off-Season Phase and Peaking workout (to be started about
12 weeks before competiton)
- 14 of Kelso's shrug "laws"
- The "Strength and Growth" workout, and Kelso's favorite Abbeviated Course
As you can see, Kelso's Shrug Book is jam-packed with training info
and will help you take your Trap Bar training to the max.
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Train Hard,
John Wood.
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Kelso's Shrug Book by Paul Kelso
- $19.99 plus s/h -
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