STOP, You're Training Your Back Wrong!

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Are you training your back wrong? You are about to find out in this video on how to get a bigger back by implementing these back workout strategies that may be completely new to you. We look to anatomy and science to give us clues as to how we may want to switch up the way we do our back exercises in order to get a bigger, wider, and thicker back in the long run. It starts with how you do your pullups wrong. Too often do I see people cut short the range of motion on pull-ups in order get more reps and there's a very simple reason for this; cutting down the range of motion makes the exercise easier. When the exercise is easier, you are able to get more reps done and that makes it feel like we are doing something more for our lats. However, I implore you to explore the full range of motion of the exercise and let yourself go into a dead arm hang at the bottom of each rep. That doesn't mean you need to unpack your shoulders, as you can continue to keep stability in the shoulders by keep them packed. However, to get the most possible gains in your lats out of this exercise, you need to be going through full range of motion throughout. The next thing you are doing wrong in pursuit of a bigger back is how you perform lat pulldowns. The issue I see with this exercise when people are trying to build a big back is that they are gripping the bar too wide. A wide grip will shift the focus of the exercise from the lats to a smaller muscle called the teres major. If you are looking to

Published 2024-11-20 · Watch on YouTube ↗
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