Upper Back Exercises
Posture Exercises
If you want to improve your posture and reduce back pain, doing posture exercises regularly is an easy and effective way to do both. By doing a workout session dedicated to your back once per week, you will greatly improve your posture automatically (it will naturally start to straighten), and for a lot of people, [...]
The Lat Pull down and Pull up
These exercises are extremely similar, and so I put them in the same article. I personally prefer pull ups (because I like isometric exercises, and they workout more of your body because of the balance they require), but for the beginner, lat pull downs are fine. Also, a lot of beginners can’t do many pull [...]
The Seated Row
Seated cable rows are excellent for both your upper and lower back, and for this exerise you will need to find the (yes, you guessed it!) a seated cable row machine. Lower on the page there is a picture of me doing the seated row. I would recommend using the v-bar for this exercise, also [...]
Shoulder Shrugs
This exercise is probably the simplest of the posture exercises on this website, but don’t shrug it off! All you need for this exercise is a pair of dumbbells (and progressively as you get stronger, heavier and heavier dumbbells). Shoulder shrugs are a very effective exercise, and actually very easy to build muscle with. This [...]