How-To Build Your Back into a Muscle Shield - Buff Dudes

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The Dudes are back with another How-To, this one focusing on how to build the Back into a Muscular Shield which will send shivers down the spines of all who oppose it!

Exercises covered:

Weighted Pull-Ups
T-Bar Rows
Reverse Grip Bent-Over Rows
One Armed Cable Rows
Straight Arm Lat Pulldowns

weighted pull ups -

Primary muscle group - latissimus dorsi, rhomboid major/minor, teres major, trapezius lower portion

secondary muscles - brachioradialis, biceps

Benefits - Use this exercise for total back development, helping with that v-taper.
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Underhand bent over rows -

Primary muscles - Lower lats, upper traps

Secondary muscles - Biceps

Benefits - Helping build the lower lats (christmas tree) and strength in the erector spinae, also activating more of the biceps.
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T-Bar rows

Primary muscles - Lats, traps, posterior delts, teres major/minor

secondary muscles - abs, biceps, erector spinae

Benefits - include this in your back routine for middle/upper back thickness.
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Bent over DB one arm DB rows

Primary muscles - Lats, traps, posterior delts

secondary muscles - biceps

Benefits - a Unilateral exercise - great for working out any inconsistencies in form and strength from one side to the next. Helping elongate the lats for maximum v-taper.
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Straight arm lat pull-downs -

Primary muscles - Lats, teres major

secondary muscles - triceps

benefits - one of the only isolation exercise for the lats, helping elongate and stretch the lats. Also a great warm-up or burn out exercise to either start of finish any back workout.

Buff Dudes / Fitness / Back
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