Thicken and widening your back
When back day comes around this week, you should have two goals in mind: thickness and width. Thickening your posterior is as simple as doing heavy rows with cables, dumbbells or a barbell. Getting wide is a little trickier. Pulldowns and pull-ups are the way to go, sure, but there are [...]
The barbell row and the pendlay row
The traditional barbell row has been a mainstay in the training arsenal of athletes for as long as there have been barbells. It’s a fantastic mass-builder that widens and thickens your back while also strengthening your biceps and forearms. Well, we’d like to introduce you to the Pendlay row–a [...]
Building up middle back thickness
Developing the middle of the back is not an area of training which you read about very often. You often see exercises for the lats, upper back and lower back, but rarely the middle. This is mainly because developing this area is of little concern to beginners, and even to intermediate [...]
My deltoids are well developed but my shoulders are narrow. Am I genetically limited to narrow shoulders?
The most misunderstood term in bodybuilding is “genetics.” Having good genetics doesn’t mean you had good proportions from day one. And having what some perceive as “flawed genetics” doesn’t mean you can’t get to the highest level.
Proof of this [...]
Building traps with Lee Haney’s advice
Flash back to the mid- to late-1980s, when Georgia-based bodybuilder Lee Haney was an unbeatable force on the Olympia stage. His traps were one of his many standout muscle groups. Not only for the way they popped up on his shoulders, but also for the way the complete traps–upper, middle [...]
In this article I will not make any false promises, I cannot promise you that if you follow my routine your back will swell to Coleman-esque proportions in only six weeks. What I can promise you is that if you follow my suggestions, eat plenty of protein and carbohydrates to fuel yourself and give each [...]
The traps are in effect one large diamond shaped muscle that attaches at the top of the neck, spreads to the shoulder attachment along the clavicle bone and all the way down to the middle of your back, tying in your shoulders and lats. People tend to train them either along with delts or with [...]
Nothing is more impressive than being able to bang out 30 pull ups in a row or finishing a set of 10 with 90 lbs hanging from a belt. Nothing LOOKS more impressive than being able to hit an impressive front or rear lat spread with confidence. Furthermore, how many women do you know that [...]
There is a neat new program at http://pull-ups-training.com/ that will help you increase your pull ups. Check it out then read this article.
Someone beat me to the punch. I was going to write a program like this based on what I saw at The 100 Push Ups Challenge, but I just didn’t make the time [...]
Taken From: Muscletech.com
In the bodybuilding world of vein-popping guns and ripped abs, no one will argue the fact that there is nothing more impressive than a freakishly wide and dense back. Even the 2008 Arnold Classic Champ, Dexter Jackson, knows the importance of back thickness and preaches that the true training secret to building a [...]
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