While it would be AWESOME if you could flick out a set of adamantium claws at the end of this movement, the exercise is still pretty cool considering the benefits it has! Using a good solid set of your more underused back muscles, Wolverines will definitely help with your posture!
Just remember to keep your shoulders down and pinch those shoulder blades together at the end of the movement!
A body weight row often gets overlooked by many as it doesn’t look as cool or as challenging as other weighted rows. Dismissing this move is a big mistake. You can vary up the angle in which you row and make it very challenging indeed!
This exercise can be done from a standing up point right down to you being parallel to the floor!
This is one of the big exercises on the gym floor. Many do it incorrectly and many could stand to implement it into the program.
A few tips on this exercise!
1. You can do this exercise with an underhanded grip of an overhand grip
2. If you find it difficult to maintain the angle of your spine, use a bench put on an incline to prop up your chest!
3. It is important to try not to shrug your shoulders up to your ears.
The pull up is such a strong and versatile exercise. You don’t need any real equipment other than something above your head and able to be hung onto.
A strong back is so so important these days what with so many people using computers and other technology. The Seated Row is a great exercise to strengthen the back.
Some points to remember when doing this exercise.
1. Keep your chest up and don’t slouch.
2. When pulling the grip towards you, try and keep your forearms in line with the cable. From your elbow, up your forearms and up the cable, it all should be a straight line at all times.
3. This exercise is about retracting your shoulder blades, don’t forget to do so!
The chin up is such a strong and versatile exercise. You don’t need any real equipment other than something above your head and able to be hung onto. Alas with an underhand chin up, a bar is the much preferred apparatus.
Compared to a chin up, this exercise is a great start to strengthening your back while being able control the weight lifted. While it is often a goal to be able to a chin up, starting with Lat Pull Downs is the best way to build up to achieving this. Focus on posture and technique is better achieved doing this motion also. This exercises is also an effective way to activate lower trapezius which is often a problem area for those in office work type jobs.