Exercises To Strengthen The Back

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.

Pulling the arms down from an elevated position. This movement uses the large latissimus dorsi muscles that wrap from your mid back around your side. They are responsible for the V shape of the back. Exercises that accomplish this movement are: Pull Ups, Chin Ups and Pull Downs in any variation. Note: images for all these exercises can be found here.

Pulling the arms back from a neutral position. This motion is commonly described as a rowing motion. The muscles that are most involved are the latissimus dorsi and the teres muscles, spinatus muscles and the rhomboids. A few of the exercises that accomplish this motion and target these muscles are: Rows, One-Arm Row and Low Pull.

Moving the arms backward while you maintain them at shoulder level. This is the lesser common of all the shoulder actions. It would necessitate having the arms raised before you and to draw the arms backward as you are maintaining them lifted. The sport of rowing is one of the few times we do this motion. In rowing, your elbows are maintained high versus the row exercise in which your elbows are near your sides. Physical exercises that imitate this motion and train each of these muscles are the just like for the regular row exercises, but you must maintain raised elbows.

Shrugging or raising your shoulders. This is certainly a very common and practical action. The trapezoid muscles are the main mover. Any one of the assorted shrug exercises will target .

Extending the Spinal column. This means moving the back from a bent over posture to a neutral one. The muscle tissues that make this happen are the erector spinae muscles. Just a few of the exercises which make use of these particular muscles are Back Extensions on a Ball or Roman Chair and also tilting 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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