back workout

Don’t take this personally: but if you’re like the majority of people in the weightroom, your lats probably suck. Let’s not sugar coat it, it is what it is. When someone looks at you from the front and the back, oftentimes it’s like they’re seeing two different people. It’s too bad because it...

As the world’s greatest bodybuilders get ever closer to Olympia, they know that each and every gym session is an opportunity to head towards making history. One man that exemplifies this ethos is the two-time 212 Olympia champion, Shaun Clarida, as he shares how he blasts his back. “There’s no...

Many beginners and trainees look to bodybuilders and physique athletes for guidance on how to build their bodies in the most effective ways possible. One of their goals is to someday be that person who future iron rookies look to for advice on how to look like them. These four elite competitors...

EDGAR ARTIGA / M+F Magazine A great many lifters, when training back, spend a lot of their set equity on developing wide lats—everyone wants that great set of wings. But what often gets lost in this equation is the quest for back thickness—that deep, grainy, dense back that is the hallmark of...

EDGAR ARTIGA / M+F Magazine If your goal is to be classically built, you’ll have no choice but to attack your back with intensity, focus, and a meticulously designed program that will build the perfect combination of width, thickness, and separation. This means that each exercise must be...

The perfect back workout should consist of exercises for not just the lats and traps but other important muscles of the back as well. That said, even that do...

Per Bernal / M+F Magazine Pulling off incredible feats of human achievement is commonplace for Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. His movies have grossed more than $3.4 billion in the U.S. alone; his social media presence is so overwhelming that a mere photo of his Flintstonian dinner on Instagram can...