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Best Back Exercises

By Mike Caton


The back serves a number of purposes as well as a variety of muscles that ought to be targeted while training this body part. This article is going to focus on each of these actions together with the exercises.

Taking the arms down from a higher point. Your Latissimus Dorsi, which starts at mid back and then wraps around the sides is responsible for this motion. These are the reason for the V design of the backside. You can target this muscle with the following exercises: Pull Ups, Chin Ups together with Pull Downs in any form. Note: images for all these exercises can be found here.

Taking the arms backward while at your side. This action is normally called rowing. You will use these muscles when doing this motion: the latissimus dorsi in addition to the teres muscles, spinatus muscles along with the rhomboids. Some of the exercises that achieve this action and pinpoint those muscles are: Rows, One-Arm Row and also Low Pull.

Pulling the arms back while in an elevated position. This is the least common of all the shoulder movements. It would require having the arms elevated in front of you and then to pull the arms back while keeping them elevated. There are very few movements in life that do this except for the sport of rowing. During this activity, your elbows are kept high as opposed to the row exercise where your elbows are at your sides. Exercises that simulate this movement and work these muscles are the same as for the standard row exercises, but while maintaining elevated elbows.

Lifting the shoulders. Also known as a shrug, this is a common and functional movement. This movement uses the trapezoid muscles. Exercises that accomplish this movement are any of the various shrug exercises.

Extending the Spine. This is taking the spine from a bent over position to a neutral position. The muscles that accomplish this are the erector spinae muscles. A few of the exercises that use these muscles are Back Extensions on a Ball or Roman Chair and leaning forward while on a rowing machine.

Be sure to cover all these bases when training your back so it will be as healthy as possible and stay strong.




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