Lets just suppose that the traps are made to raise the shoulders. Cause they are
. Do you raise your shoulders doing side laterals yes. Do you raise your shoulders on deadlifts, maybe, but only if you do them right(at the end while rolling shoulders back). If you do deadlifts on back day then yes you are correct. But I bet more then half of the guys on this board dont do dead lifts. So if that is the case then do them on shoulder day
. I know it looks like I back peddled here but I just started doing deads myself no thanks to James Titor. I can feel the traps after a deadlift day. So I agree. But only if you do dead lifts.
Lets say this then. Tom Platz tore his bicept doing dead lifts. Does that mean dead lifts work bicepts? Well actually yes.