Do this exercise
first on back day because your lower back will suffer the same amount as with a barbell.
Put pull ups
first on back day, before anything else, and add in some weight if you can already do 10 - 15 with your own body weight.
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When the pullovers are used as lats pumping exercise perform them as the first
exercise on back day.
The traps are heavily included in most back and shoulder exercises, so some people train them on shoulder day, while others claim that targeting
traps on back days is the ticket to monstrous growth.
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Do not add more shrug
sets on back day, as your traps get hammered enough during this routine.
From week to week, reps may also change, as well as the order of exercises (e.g., shrugs and deadlifts before rows and
chins on back day).
(Hammer curls and close grip pulldowns should be incorporated on their respective muscle training days i.e. hammer curls on bicep day and close grip
pulldowns on back day)
Since my original comment 5 days ago, I've found that just focusing on a few major lifts that are important to me (bench press, weighted pull ups, weighted pistol squats) and even adding a few more sets but cutting out sets of complimentary lifts on those days (e.g. cable flys on chest days, cable
rows on back days, etc.) has seemed to help a lot.
Progressing on compound lifts,
especially on back day, will get you that perfect v - shape taper that everyone talks about and few achieve.
But more and more mid-range devices from quite a few vendors around the world are also sporting capable pairs of
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This might sound a bit counterintuitive at first, doing shoulder mobility
exercises on a back day, but stay with us.
On back days, stick to the conventional deadlift as it's the best variant for maximum back activation.
For example,
on back day: Do pullups and straight arm pulldowns, and superset it with an athletic stance horizontal cable row with rotation through the thoracic spine.
I pat
myself on the back every day, and don't need a letter to say I did good.