Top 2 Bodyweight Upper Back Exercises

Want to know the best upper back exercises you can do with just your bodyweight? Here they are:

Bodyweight Upper Back Exercise #1: Chin-Ups

I love chin-ups. Most people don’t do them because they’re tough. Chin-ups are actually easier then pull-ups and you feel them more in your biceps.

You also feel them more in your lats. Usually after a good pull-up workout I’ll feel them everywhere except the upper back. But I don’t know what it is about the Chin-ups.

Maybe it’s just the simple hand positioning. Who knows, I’m not a scientist. But I feel them. “They hit the spot” as I like to say. So chin-ups are my number one choice when training my upper back.

Bodyweight Upper Back Exercise #2: Bodyweight Rows

Frankly, I didn’t start doing these until a few weeks back when I started to train with my cousin at the park. There was no place at home I could do bodyweight rows.

Actuallly, I did do them once. It was a very dangerous way to do them. I was training with one of my other good friends, Dominic (Dom), and we found a huge ladder in the garage.

It was one of those big steel ones used by construction guys. Well, it was there. So we propped it up and placed a barbell through it. Then we did bodyweight rows with it.

I felt it. They were tough, but the whole ladder was shaking. So one guy had hold it in place while the other person did the rows. They worked, but don’t do them at home with a ladder.

Use a smith machine or go to a park. If you can find another, safer way to do these at home, let me know.

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