When you're training your back muscles, an essential muscle group, you'll need to pull. Here are a few of our favorite upper body exercises to fill your pull days. A pulling movement includes ...

These, familiarly called your “lats,” are two wide muscles along the sides of your back. They are anchored to your spine and ...

If pull-ups aren't a favorite of yours or you simply don't have access to a pull-up bar, that's quite alright as there are plenty of other ways to build upper ... and back muscles to create ...

Conventional treatments (painkillers, muscle relaxers ... The continual strain on your neck, shoulder and upper back muscles causes these muscles to tear (on a microscopic level).

3. Band Pull-Aparts Toss this exercise into your dynamic warm-up to target your upper back (rhomboids and traps included). It also fires up your stabilizing muscles that keep you upright.

I'm going to walk you through a 10-minute upper body workout ... That will hurt your back. Pull the weights up, and hold them for a second. Slowly lower. Squeeze your muscles.

Most push, pull, legs routines will be focused around compound moves — exercises that recruit multiple muscle ... until your upper arm is parallel with the floor. Lower slowly back to the ...

Hold the spread position to engage your triceps and upper back muscles briefly, then return to the starting position. Perform 3 sets of 20 reps. Grab a pull-up bar with a shoulder-width ...

Chin-ups work your upper back and arm muscles, specifically the biceps, forearms, shoulders, and latissimus dorsi, or "lats." Like pull-ups, chin-ups also engage your abdominal muscles throughout ...