The gorilla row builds strength through the middle and upper back, lats, and shoulders while also enhancing scapular mobility, plus thoracic and abdominal stability.
Reverse Flys are the opposite of the chest exercise Flys. Instead of lying on your back, you lie on your stomach and extend your arms back. This exercise targets the back shoulder muscles and neck, making it a compound exercise.
The Cable One Arm Bent Over Row is a strength-building exercise that targets the muscles in the back, biceps, and shoulders, promoting muscle growth and improving posture. This exercise is ideal for both beginners and advanced fitness enthusiasts due to its adjustable resistance and focus on unilateral muscle development. Individuals may opt for this exercise to enhance muscle balance, improve core stability, and promote functional fitness.
1. After setting up your weights, stand with your toes roughly aligned with the plates.
2. Deadlift the barbell to your starting position, meaning you’re at full extension.
3. Soften your knees and hinge at the hips so your torso is at about 45 degrees.
4. Pull your hands toward your chest to execute the landmine row.
Start with dumbbells held in front of you, elbows in tight to your waist and palms facing your shoulders as though you’ve just finished a bicep curl. Without letting the elbows flare out, push the dumbbells up overhead while rotating your wrists until your palms face away from you, so the dumbbells corkscrew upwards. Straighten…
This is an excellent bodyweight exercise for the shoulders and upper back. It can also be a great warm-up for the shoulders while stretching the pecs.
1. Start in a prone position by laying on your stomach with your hands behind your lower back (like you’re being handcuffed).
2. Extend your arms out straight by hinging at the elbow and begin to bring your arms to a Y position. Keep them locked and keep your thumbs turned up toward the ceiling.
3. From there, do the same motion coming back, trying to make as big of a circle as you can coming around, and return to your starting position with your hands placed behind your lower back.
4. You’re then going to retract your shoulder blades. While keeping your hands on your lower back, bring your shoulder blades back down, and repeat this entire motion for 10-15 reps.
This is a bodyweight isometric strengthening exercise for the muscles of your back and shoulder. Start by leaning your back on a wall with your knees bent in front of you. Drive your elbows into the wall behind you to lift your back off of the wall and hold for up to 7 seconds. Slowly return your back to the wall and rest for 5-7 seconds before repeating the next repetition.
Lower traps can be pretty pesky to get working. This exercise is a great way of really isolating them and understanding exactly what they do! You’ll know it when you feel it!
This bent over row is great if you have lower back issues and uses the angles to mimic our normal range of motion during a row.
The V Grip Cable Front Raise is a variation of the front raise and an exercise used to build the muscles of the shoulders. Utilising the cable machine is useful in that it provides constant tension on the target muscle group as you move the weight through the range of motion.