Bodyweight Back Workout (NO PULLUP BAR!)

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Build muscle in 6 weeks with no equipment at all http://athleanx.com/x/6-weeks-to-more-muscle Bodyweight back workouts are not very common, at least not those that don’t require a pullup bar. The reason for this is due to the misconception that people have that you can’t build muscle in your back without using heavy weights. That is simply not true. In this video, I show you how to hit your upper back, middle back and lower back with three bodyweight back exercises that can be combined into one killer home back workout. Like any muscle group, you want to be sure that you maximize the contraction of the muscle you are trying to work to get it to grow. In the case of the back muscles, many people will rely on momentum instead of muscle to move the weight. We tend to heave the weights up and not muscle the weights up on most back exercise reps. That understood, we often times can see a great acceleration of gains when we switch to back exercises that are done with our own bodyweight since we can control them much better and ensure a proper contraction. Here we cover three main areas of your back and combine them into one workout. First we target the upper back including the traps, rhomboids and posterior delts. We can target this area of our back using an exercise we call the Back Widow. This upper back exercise is a bodyweight back killer that allows for a self spot if needed by incorporating a bit more push from the feet on the floor. If you don’t need the help ho

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