Consider adding shrugging movements to your kettlebell workouts. So much of kettlebell training involves the traps, the entire back complex and the shoulder girdle.

    When people think of shrugging, they think of the standing shrug. This is a great movement, but it only focuses mainly on the upper traps. Changing the angle and performance of the shrug will let you engage and develop other parts of the back’s musculature. For example, you can focus on such areas as the lower traps, supraspinatus, infraspinitus, teres minor and major, lats, rhomboids, etc,

    Speaking personally, shrugging has helped me deal with and overcome severe shoulder problems by strengthening weak areas of the back and helping to open and pull back and stabilize the shoulders
Shrugging will also help you to get stronger and more efficient in your kettlebell lifts like the snatch h, the clean and the jerk.

    Next newsletter I will begin to detail different shrugging moves and options for you considerati0.

Keep snatching, Steve