BODYWEIGHT BACK TRAINING is never easy. The gold standard movement is the pullup—which can be devilishly hard to do for even seasoned gym-goers—and there are sparingly few other exercises that hit ...

Are you looking to increase back, shoulder, and arm strength but not ready for a vertical pullup? Consider the “down under” version, otherwise known as the Australian pullup, or inverted row. Pullups ...

If you're working out from home, the back muscles are probably some of the hardest to hit using traditional movements you’d do in the gym. Thankfully, with a bit of creativity, you can make inverted ...

Set up a bar at the Smith machine (the squat rack that has an adjustable bar attached to it) so that it’s about three feet from the floor. Lie underneath the bar. Grab the bar with palms facing away ...

Get underneath a bar secured in a squat rack (the higher it is, the easier the exercise will be); place your hands more than shoulder-width apart and extend your feet in front of you (a). Keeping your ...