Kelso's Shrug Book

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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:

The Bench Shrug
The Dip Shrug
The Standing Shrug
The Overhead Shrug
The Hise Breathing Shrug
The Sternum Shrug
And many, many more!

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.

Paul Kelso's Shrug Book

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."

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.

Train Hard.
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