Building a strong back involves a combination of exercises that target different muscle groups in the back. Here's a routine that covers various areas of the back:
### Pull-Ups/Chin-Ups
- **Wide-Grip Pull-Ups:** Target the upper back.
- **Close-Grip Chin-Ups:** Focus more on the lower lats...
Using back support in bodybuilding is often advised in specific situations:
1. **Heavy Lifts**: When performing heavy compound exercises like deadlifts, squats, or bent-over rows, using a weightlifting belt or back support can help stabilize the spine and reduce the risk of injury by providing...
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Strengthening your back is essential in bodybuilding, as it contributes to a balanced and well-proportioned physique while also supporting overall functional strength and posture. Here are some key principles and exercises to help you strengthen your back in bodybuilding:
1. Compound...
Compound weightlifting refers to a style of weight training that emphasizes exercises that engage multiple muscle groups and joints simultaneously. These compound movements are contrasted with isolation exercises, which target a single muscle group and involve only one joint. Compound...
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Bodybuilders often rely on muscle activation data to figure out how to train a certain muscle group. However, when it comes to the lats, we have a ton of studies showing similar activation in rows and pulldowns with a variety of grip widths. So why do bodybuilders still use both types of...
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Shawn Rhoden is currently not able to compete as a bodybuilder. Nevertheless, he is staying active in the gym, as evident by a recent gym video.
Rhoden is the winner of the...
How To Do It
Set up in a good stiff-legged deadlift position. Make sure you're "aware" of your hamstrings and you're not putting strain on your lower back.
Use two moderately heavy dumbbells that you can hold at the top position of a dumbbell row at maximum range of motion. This is your...
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Lateral flexion is another common way we see the core trained – this occurs in exercises like side bends or side crunches and typically targets the obliques. However, you can also train the obliques by resisting lateral flexion. This can be done by performing single arm suitcase carries or even...
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Body Mechanics 101: How To Bring Back 80s Lat Development
One of the most common mistakes made in the gym is the inability for people to fully engage their lats during back training. Even seasoned trainers struggle with this — even if they don’t know they do. In a day and age of heavy rowing...
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“One must train the deadlift in a multiyear plan. An 8 or 12 week cycle won’t work. For example, it may take 6 months to raise your hamstrings up to acceptable levels.”
Deadlift records have made little progress in recent years. I believe it is easy to add pounds to a squat or bench...
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Training Secrets of the Mr. Olympias - Part 1
The Mr. Olympia title represents the pinnacle of achievement in the sport of bodybuilding. Beginning in 1965, one man was chosen to represent the absolute best in muscular development in the entire world. It’s only natural that bodybuilders around...
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Improve Your Lats For That V-Taper...
By: Zack Trowbridge
One of the hardest parts of developing your back is how difficult it can be to get the stress in the intended area. Too much trap involvement in your rows, too much biceps on your pullups — it’s an area that’s made all the more...
IFBB Pro bikini competitor, fitness model, and softcore adult film star. When does she sleep? She is best known for her “MILF Hunter” videos. It looks like we have a modern-day Steve Irwin on our hands. During her interview with RX magazine she is quoted as saying:
“I want it; I need it; I...
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Burst Muscle Building System – 3 Day Push Pull Legs Workout
this is a 3 day muscle building split that uses the Burst training method.
The split is as follows:
Day 1 – Chest, Shoulders and Triceps (Push)
Day 2 – Off
Day 3 – Quads, Hamstrings and Calves (Legs)
Day 4 – Off
Day 5...
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Tips to improve your bench <!-- / icon and title --> <!-- message --> I wanted to share a few things that have helped my bench. I will add to the list as I think of more. If anything is unclear, post up and I will try to explain in further detail or get a vid. Strength Verified...
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6 time Mr. Olympia, Dorian Yates shares advice on training. Yates espoused a style of training known as HIT "High Intensity Training," which states that maximum muscle stimulation can be reached through short, high-intensity workout sessions rather than long duration workouts. The training style...
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Super Muscle Growth with Supersets
Arnold Schwarzenegger was a volume fanatic, as you may have seen in “Pumping Iron.” He trained major bodyparts as often as three days a week, and used a six-days-on/one-day-off, double-split routine throughout much of his professional career. What people don’t...
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Looking for a new training routine I came across this article on German Volume Training. I used GVT years ago and it worked out great. So, I'm gonna do it again. Good article for WWW.MUSCLECHEMISTRY.COM 's new thread, Weight Lifting & Gym Workouts Forum.
Shock Your Body With German Volume...
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What you train yesterday or any day lets get some different views on training.Mine was back doing the y3t training this week was heavy week :
T BAR ROWS 4 X 6-10 REPS 120 SEC REST PERIOD BETWEEN ALL EXERCISES
DB ROWS 4 X 6-10
RACK PULLS 4 X 6-10
DB ROWS 4 X 6-10
PULLOVERS 4 X 6-10
ALL DONE AS...
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