Back Workouts and their Benefits

Building a strong back isn’t easy but the benefits make all the hard work worth it. Strengthening your back will help prevent injuries, allow you to lift more weight during your other lifts, and it will also help reduce the stress that you put your back through during the course of a regular day. By using strength training to build your back strength, you help prevent injury because you are conditioning your back to handle increased levels of strain. Also, by working out your back, you help increase the amount of possible weight you can lift during your other workouts because you use your back to stabilize other lifts such as shoulder press. Lastly, using resistance strength training to build back strength will help reduce the strain you put your body through on daily basis when you twist, flex, rotate, and bend your back. So which back exercises are best? The following list includes some of the essential lifts that should be a part of any strength training workout:

1.      One-Arm Dumbbell Row: This lift helps build strength and thickness in the middle of your back.

2.      Stiff-Legged Deadlift: This lift targets the lower back, and it helps strengthen it to help prevent lower-back pain and injury.

3.      Wide Grip Pulldown: This lift targets the upper back in order to widen it and develop an aesthetically pleasing V-taper.

4.      Reverse-Grip Pulldown: This lift targets the lower part of your Lats to also help widen and achieve a V-taper.

The preceding list is by no means exhaustive. However it illustrates which type of lifts should be performed during a back workout. Or simply, your back workout should have exercises that target every area of your back. For power lifting it is important to lift heavy with a low amount of reps (3-5). 

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