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You can’t see your back muscle but all you can do just feel it, this does not mean that you should not exercise for your back muscle. The group of the muscle of your back not only gives you a perfect posture to your whole body but also protects your spinal cord, making you a man with a spine.
Exercising and strengthening back muscles helps you to sculpt out a greek god alike muscular back which apparently is admired by the people who really follow you including your girlfriend and close friends. You can speculate your wide back muscle as you pass by anyone, the physique with strong back gives you all win-win situations to get noticed.
A weak and fragile back can lead to a hyperlordosis, a medical condition in which patients have an excessive spine curvature in the lower back.
It is a usual sight in the gyms that majorly people concentrate on beefing up their chest and other front parts of the body without giving care to the rear side of the body. This creates an irregularity in the muscles group’s symmetrical balance causing a round-up shoulder towards front giving an ‘ape’ like a slouchy look to the people when they stand.
In order to avoid such bad posture of the body, you need to train your back muscles simultaneously with your upper front body muscles. While exercising, you can train your major back muscles including upper back, traps, rear deltoids which happens to be somewhat part of your shoulder muscle and also helps a lot while doing back exercise.
Before we start explaining major back, exercises, let’s learn a little about these large group of muscle that you will love to know:
The Lats
The Lats which is an acronym of its scientific name Latissimus Dorsi is the largest back muscle that you have. The Lats joints your upper arm bone and stretch up to lower back through the midback area. The Lats are your main group of muscles, that help you to perform horizontal pulls (Rows) and Vertical Pulls (pullups).
Teres Major and Teres Minor
Despite smaller in size, these two back muscle groups help a lot in various physical activities. In the fitness world, Teres major is known as lats little helper a term which is given due to its characteristic copying lats muscle while pulling weights. The teres minor helps rotator cuff to rotate externally your shoulder. The teres minor plays a major role in stabilizing your shoulder.
The Rhomboids
Located in the middle of your upper back, Rhomboids are a thick band of muscles that borders your shoulder blades. The Rhomboids help to retract your shoulder blades, a pivotal role for all back exercises and an important way to shield your shoulders. You can supercharge your ability by improving rhomboids exercise.
The Traps
The Traps which stands for ‘Trapezius’ is one of the widest back muscles. A triangular-shaped muscle group traps muscle is broad and flat. They cover the upper back o the shoulders and neck. It links to the dorsal vertebrae of the spine, scapulae, clavicles, and ribs. Divided into major three sections: Upper, middle, and lower. The Triangular shaped back group of muscle plays a major role in shrugging your shoulder, pulling your shoulder backward and pushing your shoulders downward.
Here in this article, we strive to bring forth top 5 back exercises that you can to do flaunt a greek god kind of back:-
Barbell Bent Over Row
If you want to get some effective back exercises, barbell bent-over row is one of the major exercises that you can do having a barbell in a specific bent position. A barbell bentover row is a perfect exercise for your back if you are running short of time.
In this set of exercise, you can do two different rows depending upon your body, strength, and range of motion.
A compound strength and hypertrophy exercise designed for the back, barbell row is often used in weight and strengthening programs, Barbell Bentover Row can engage your multiple back muscles including your legs and core which is quite essential to protect your spine.
How to do
Deadlift
It might sound like some leg exercise as it hammers your hamstring and glutes, but in reality those groups of muscle ain’t only get hit while doing a deadlift.
In order to perform the exercise, you need to engage your back and shoulder blades to lift the weight off the ground. In this exercise, you basically use your back muscle and engage your entire torso in a straight line to lift the weight.
How to do:
Single-arm dumbbell row
A great workout for the back with a dumbbell in hand, One arm Dumbbell row. The back exercise targets the upper and lower back, shoulders, biceps and hips while improving core stability. To complete this back exercise with more effective results, balance yourself on a bench taking a relatively heavier each set.
How to do:
Lat Pulldown
This is another back exercise that hit your lats muscle of your back.
In this exercise you will need a cable machine that you can find in any gym, all you need to do is to perform the back exercise in a correct form so that it can reflect quite frequent results.
How to do
Decline and parallel bench Pullover
The back exercise can be done in either of these benches inclined or parallel. Just a fact, the decline bench pullover puts your lats under much tension for a considerable amount of time than using a flat bench. Just try to clear dumbbell off your head, and safely drop it when you are done.
How to do
In this exercise, you need to position your body on the decline bench and clamp your legs at the supporting pads to the bench. Go for a heavier dumbbell as (beginners can do with 5 kg or 7.5 kg) however, experts and pro should start with 15kg and can go up. It starts as you lift the weight from the back of the head and take it all the way up till you get an extended chest and then lowers it down as its original place. This completes one set and you are advised to do three different sets of 12 repetitions.
So these top 5 back exercises that you can add to your back day in the gym.
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