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In my bodybuilding competition years, one of my best features was my back. I would like to contribute it to hard thrashing back sessions at the gym. But in all reality I built my back working on a green chain in a northern Wisconsin sawmill during my high school summers. Being raised in the logging industry and having a sawmill literally behind the house I lived in, you are bound to get a strong back. All day long (and I do mean a long day) you pulled piles of green boards that were just freshly sawn off a long chain and carried them to a selected lumber pile. Then you would have to lift them up to sometimes to chest height to pile the heavy boards. My back would get so sore for the first two weeks of each summer. Then after that it adapted to the workload, I would push it harder. This was especially true after the Head Sawyer enjoyed too much beer on horseshoe night. For some strange reason he felt all of us should suffer and really push the logs through the head saw.



What this is leading to is that I built my back using strength moves. Muscle that is built using strength and power movements generally stays with you. Unlike using hypertrophy movements, that pump up the muscle tissues. Size built using hypertrophy training tends to go away faster than strength training if you stop training. The advantage of hypertrophy is it grows your muscles at a faster rate.













Some exercises you can use to strengthen your back;



heavyweight deadlifts

dumbbell bent over rows

dumbbell high pulls



The key to doing them is to use a more explosive movement on the concentric part (the pulling up on the dumbbell bent over rows) and a controlled slow eccentric movement (letting the dumbbells back down to the starting position). Reps should be between 8 to 3 with 3 sets. The rest time between sets should be 2 to 3 minutes. You need a longer rest time with strength movements because the muscle tissue uses atp creatine for energy.



Be sure to warm the muscle groups up first before hitting it hard. You don’t want back muscle spasms or pulled back muscle symptoms.


Another article you can check out Bigger Back Muscles.


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