Good Form On Back Exercises

By Richard Daniels


Between dumbells and the equipments there is really quite a lot that you can do to get thickness and width to your back. Be extremely cautious with your back and consistently use a belt when you are raising heavy weights, are bending over or a turning your waist.

Asking around among professionals we kept finding these five major workouts, so we will describe them below as well as discuss ways to obtain and keep perfect form for ideal muscle gain.

Reverse Grip Pull-down.

This is a great one for warming up. Ensure your seat is readjusted so that your upper legs are perfectly parallel to the ground and you have a ninety degree angle behind your knees. Grab hold of the bar and sit down. Concentrate all your attention on your shoulder blades and how they are coming together when you pull the bar down. Bring the bar to upper chest height and hold for a moment 2. Return to the starting position very slowly. Your elbows and hands should be shoulder width apart throughout the workout. You can do one warm-up set with lighter weights and then four working sets with heavier weights.

Barbell Row

Barbell rows are not to be confused with Yates rows, where your upper body is inclined at a fifty degree angle and you are utilizing an underhand grip. To do proper rows, your upper body have to be bent forward so that it is parallel to the ground.

Have the barbell on the floor on front of you. Hold the barbell from above as if you were doing barbell bench presses. The barbell needs to touch your chest and then go back to the floor.

One Arm Dumbbell Row

The one arm free weight row is a little more difficult to do than the barbell row due to the fact that you need to find out the specific arm motion since you will often rotate your upper body and lean the weight on the supporting leg and arm.

When you are doing this exercise, you must beware to straighten out your back and not have it rounded or curved. You should be entirely concentrated on your shoulder blade retracting and depressing whilst your elbow remains close to your body. Don't take your elbow "out and up" as if you needed to shoot off an arrow.

Hammer Strength Seated Row

Adjust your seat so that your hands are shoulder height in the begining position. Squeeze your shoulders together at the top of each movement.

Seated Cable Row

Although we have actually put this workout at the end of the post, it can be very good to for warming up too. This is a full back exercise that works deltoids, lats, traps, forearm flexors and arms. Benefit from the complete back stretch that you get at the end of each movement. Just like all the other rows, try to concentrate on your back muscles and squeeze your shoulder blades together at the top of the movement. When you release, do it in a very slow and managed manner, contrasting the weight as much as possible.

No matter what your routine is, if you count these five back muscle "musts" you will see the difference!




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