There are a lot of different back exercises to do while strength training. Here are just 5 of them for a full and complete back exercise workout. You can change the order of these exercises every workout and rotate some or all out with other back exercises. This will add a lot of variety to your back workout and work out your back in different ways and from many different angles.
Hammer Strength Iso Row
This seated row is a great exercise for working out the back using either a wide or close grip. Since you are seated, it offers you the ability to use heavier weights and really work out the back hard for more bulk and mass.
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Close-grip Lat Pulldown
A pulldown exercise using a cable pulley machine.
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Pull-ups
Pull-ups are one of my favorite upper bodyweight exercises to do. It does an amazing job working out the entire upper body, core and arms but especially the back and lats. It gives you that beautiful v-shape from hip to shoulders. Since you are using your body weight and you are going against gravity, it’s a much tougher exercise to do. You can of course over time make it more difficult by slowing down the repetitions and doing each repetition much slower.
Pull-ups are also the perfect replacement for doing wide lat pulldowns on the cable pulley machine. I like to do them second or third in my back workout order after getting my back nice and warmed up with 1 or 2 good back exercises. Sometimes I will superset them when the gym is slow, but often this is hard to do.
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1 Arm Bent-Over Row
This back row exercise using dumbbells is more difficult to do but it is great for working out the back.
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Iso Pulldown Using Hammer Strength
An wide pulldown back exercise that offers a different and greater range of motion for a weight training machine.
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These are just 5 back weight training exercises that I like to do. Every week I like to alternate the order as well as rotate some back exercises this other back exercises for more variety and to keep things interesting. There are so many different back exercises to do that the options are almost endless.
