Wednesday, August 7, 2013

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.

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.

Drawing the arms backward while being held at shoulder height. Granted, not a common shoulder movement. It would necessitate having the arms raised before you then to draw the arms backward as you are holding them raised. You find only a few actions in everyday life which do this aside from the sport of rowing. In this particular action, your elbows are placed high in contrast to the row exercise in which your elbows are near your sides. Physical exercises that mimic this motion and incorporate each of these muscles are the exactly like those for the regular row exercises, however while keeping high 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 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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