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What are your top 5 back exercises for building mass and strength???
 
 

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1. One arm dumbell rows

2. Deadlifts

3. Pull-ups

4. Reverse Flyes

5. Face pulls

for size and mass, one arm rows and deadlifts are my go-to exercises. pullups are the quintessential back exercise and i use a bunch of variations, and i really like face pulls as a finisher cause they get the rhomboids which are hard to get with other back exercises.

Nice list!
 
What are your thoughts about bent over row supinated grip??
 
I never hear people list that?
 
 
 
 

 well, its a mix. Some say it works great others say it can easily tare the bicep. I have used it and loved it.

My top 5:
 
Seated CG Cable Row
T Bar Row
1 Arm DB Row
Rack Pulls
BB Rows

  
  
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Same here.. i always hear mixed reviews..

barbell rows (some people call them “pendlay” rows)
pullups/chinups
deadlifts
more barbell rows
more pullups and chinups

barbell rows
deadlifts
high pulls
pull ups
cal strength hypers

I know dead lifts are great for your back however what is it building??

Rob, you forgot military press and jerks…

deadlifts destroy your upper back, which has to bear the brunt of the weight while you pull up with your posterior chain. you aren’t necessarily pulling with your back like you do with a row, so much as supporting the weight. think of it as similar to what your core muscles do on a squat, holding everything in place while the action takes place elsewhere. but the isometric action of holding that big a load (i’m assuming you are putting a decent amount of weight on the bar if you are bothering to do deadlifts) with your upper back really works those muscles and helps pack on a ton of mass.

Come now i wasn’t trying to give away my secret Pete.
Jerks are the best though. But at the end of the day it is all about the snatch and clean and jerk. It works everything

haha, sorry i let the cat out of the bag. here’s a fun fact:

Rob can overhead press more than he deadlifts. lol

 
Your back.

Oh thanks glenn.. perfect answer.. very descriptive!!
 
What muscles in your back???

 
All of them.  Seriously, not trying to be a smartass…  but it works all of them.

wow that is crazy
 
How can a dead lift be compared to a row??
 
so basically people should just dead lift everytime they workout back?

 
I would not recomend people just deadlift every time they work back…  I am not big on frequent deadlifting.  But, one way you can compare a deadlift to a row is that they both work the hell out of your lats.  I thnk the most sore my lats have ever been is after a few sets of romanian deadlifts when I did them for the first time having stopped doing them for several months.

That makes sense..
 
I am scared to go heavy low reps with deadlifts..
 
I pick a weight were i can do 12 reps.. I dont feel confident to go heavier… I am scared of hurting my lower back.

 
Personally, I would be more scared of the high reps…  easy to let your back go loose for a split second when you have it in your hands for 10+ reps…  IMO much easier to lock down  and stay locked down when you only have to do 2 or 3, no matter what the weight.

I will try that!! thanks..
 
So you go all the way down in your dead lift meaning  you let the weights touch the floor each rep?

 
yes

what if you are doing a really light weight, do you still have to make the weight touch the floor? 
 
Do you have to put all the weight on the floor or can you keep tension in your body holding most of the weight?? 
 
Someone asked me this question and i was curious to know …

 
I am not a big fan of light or high rep deadlifts, if your gonna go light do stiff legged deadlifts or ev en better RDL’s.  dont really have to rest the bar on the flooor on either, on RDL’s for most people it wont even touch.

Correction Pete. I can over head press more than i can squat. I actually have a pretty big deadlift. How that works i have no idea but im weird like that haha

I dont touch the floor with RDLs..
 
But i still want to know if its considered “wrong” to not touch the floor when dead lifting ( with lighter weight) ..
 
Whether you are a fan or not.. is it wrong??
 

 
I think that by definition, a clean is from the floor to lockout, if you dont want to touch the floor call it something else.

CLean and dead lifts are the same thing??

 
crap, not what i meant to say.  I meant deadlift when I said clean…  sorry about that.