The Top 10 Best Back Exercises

Daniels Daniels
Jul 22, 2017 · 2 min read

OK, so top-10 lists are contrived. We flat-out agree that they’re nothing more than a cheap ploy by the media to get your attention. Even the most famous top-10 list, the one that debuted on David Letterman’s NBC show in 1985, was devised as a way to poke fun at the insipid lists in People and other celebrity tabloids … at least until it took on a life of its own that has now spanned nearly three mocktabulous decades.

But even though our inner cynic understands all that, we can’t help but be drawn in by the curiosity. What’s №1? What got aced out and fell to №2? What was unfairly left off the list altogether? We like to stir it up just as much as anyone else, so we’ve undertaken a challenge: objectively and subjectively rank the very best exercises for each bodypart, starting with the back.

The criteria were simple. Each of the exercises that made the cut has been proved through scientific research and years of practical testing in the training trenches to target the various muscles of the back. Millions of weightlifters and bodybuilders the world over have turned to these movements time and again to build a stronger, more muscular well-defined rear view.

Now it’s your turn. After outlining each exercise’s strengths and weaknesses — and telling you how to do them — we offer three back workouts, each with a different goal, that incorporates exercises from this list.

Click Here for 10 Best Back Exercises

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