How to Build a THICK BACK - Get Better Posture with Two Upper Back Exercises

[@michaelgray9236]

Super random comment, but how articulate you are with your word pronunciations is so satisfying to listen to

[@coacheugeneteo]

Thank you haha

[@shobhanojha8732]

This isn't the Eugene from Instagram. Are you a twin ?

[@TristanMark1]

Yes the lat pulldowns is actually better for upper back ! I’m glad someone finally said it. The closer your hands are together the more it works your lats and the wider they are the more upper/middle part of the back it works. I’ve been doing chin-ups (grip slightly less than shoulder width) since lockdown and I’ve seen direct improvement to my lats

[@coacheugeneteo]

Yes!

[@shershahiqbal6792]

do pull-ups instead if you want back focus, chin-ups for bicep focus.

[@GameZero2]

Does a shoulder width lat pulldown work both mid traps and lats? I feel them on lupper lats/lower lats but not sure about mid back.

[@mydl6314]

It feels like John is the dad in the fitness industry and eugene is the cool uncle. just throwing that out there

[@coacheugeneteo]

hahaha thank you

[@leuaymouhib2746]

And coach Greg IS the granpa

[@naturetime8432]

You're absolutely right...👍

[@bobbyalistor]

Nah greg is cool uncle, Eugene is that eldest cool cousin who travelled the world to find peace

[@iJuanGutierrez]

@@leuaymouhib2746 dead ass.

[@coacheugeneteo]

***TIMESTAMPS*** How many people do you think are gonna comment and complain that it took me 8 minutes to get to the Exercises? Get your popcorn out, and let’s see. I hope y’all like the REAL important content just as much as the exercise suggestions :-) 00:40 - Tight Neck & Shoulders? 3:35 - What is the Upper Back vs Lats? 3:55 - Lat Anatomy 4:50 - Upper Back Anatomy 5:55 - Good vs Bad Posture 6:20 - Cheeky Biceps Flex 8:15 - Exercise Number 1 - FINALLY! 11:02 - Exercise Number 2

[@RJB_TV]

The entire section before it was very educational. Such as the Bicep flex.

[@peu239]

Are there people complaining? Seriously? Even when you're cool enough to take your time and divide the video in sections, and they could easily jump right into what they want with one click? Some people are insane, that's a fact... Anyway, I found the whole video useful, and thank you for sharing all this knowledge with us!

[@RJB_TV]

@@peu239 The content is too good to complain.

[@coacheugeneteo]

@@RJB_TV hahaha yes

[@coacheugeneteo]

@@peu239 Thank you - I agree, but you'll be surprised the comments I get sometimes haha

[@nahiyanishmam4298]

I do inverted row for my upper back, I also suggest my clients the same exercise. Great bodyweight back builder

[@coacheugeneteo]

Yes! It's great

[@andregonczey1057]

Just to mention the exercises means nothing without the explanation. People need to understand that it is important to know this while executing the movement. Maxing out the Education is what we need. In this Channel you find the „hidden“ diamonds. Much appreciation from germany, cologne

[@Gaborekoe]

Absolutely

[@afrizzyy]

Solid video love the aesthetic! 1) Band pullapart 2) Bent over cable rows

[@coacheugeneteo]

Thank you!

[@freedomcanada8397]

Even though you have time stamps I'm always glad to watch the whole video

[@cameronjames3028]

Traps seem tight most days unless i roll in the morning. Keen to see what Uncle Eugene has in store for us today!

[@coacheugeneteo]

Hope this helps!

[@ci6516]

1) snatch grip high pull , 2) any type of bent over row when the focus is pinching shoulder blades . And also one arm rows . I always , always , allow my back to stretch at the bottom , almost to the point the weight touches the floor without actually transferring the weight to the floor .

[@coacheugeneteo]

Nice!

[@GOASTize]

That last cue is gonna be a game changer, thanks brah

[@DejaVuJimmy]

Educational and inspirational AF as always!

[@coacheugeneteo]

Thank you

[@brianguajardo2420]

I am a newbie in training. I don't really train the upper back specifically but I want bigger traps and a bigger back. I am so happy for this video because tomorrow is my back and biceps day.

[@gabriel.hongkong]

I can't believe I haven't discovered this channel earlier. I just watched your hamstring mobility video a minute ago. This is my second video ever and you've earned a subscriber

[@marcassauw1001]

Loving the content! Learned so much over the past few videos

[@coacheugeneteo]

Thank you. Glad to hear it

[@donshikhu0007]

Thanks for sharing your knowledge brother... God bless You. Love from Nagaland (India)

[@coacheugeneteo]

Thank you!

[@piyahgaming3506]

your videos are amazing man, edited perfectly and very aesthetically pleasing

[@fictionalreality1010]

The straight bar overhead press for me has been amazing

[@tmc3834]

Uncle I must say, that dumbell collection you have is incredible! Each piece looks like a work of art!

[@coacheugeneteo]

I think so too!

[@jomon723]

Thanks from an old man, it is true about coming down and expanding ...Very good point

[@PatrickP8445698]

My favorite exercises are: 1. T-Bar Row or chest supportet T-Bar Row 2. Facepulls

[@orlandogomez3465]

Do you use facepulls for your rear delts or for your back?

[@champ5902]

@@orlandogomez3465 works for both. But depends on your elbow angle ; if you lower your elbows you target the back.

[@daniel-ym9un]

I like to do seal rows on an incline bench. Get a really good stretch, and can get a really good contraction, with lower back support due to having your chest contacting the bench. Great video as always.

[@gingerbreadboy]

I’ve got a home made seal bench and I love it. Great for upper back and rear delt work.

[@DanyVillegas]

Came from the past uncle Eugene, good to see this content again, really helpful in the details

[@muhammadhasnainkhalil7437]

Yes, the back of the neck lat pulldown is also very useful for the upper middle back.

[@Siberius-]

This was exceptionally enlightening.

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So far the best Channel concerning everything about Working out. I am Bodybuilding already since 14 years (with head and Heart) i was always learning and evolving by watching other Pros und through experience. BUT YOUT KNOWLEDGE AND WAY OF EXPLAINING IT IS JUST ON ANOTHER LEVEL 🤙🙌

[@coacheugeneteo]

Thank you!!

[@fn3200]

What a peaceful mood

[@watfunstu9086]

A great bodyweight alternative for T-Bar rows are Australian pull-ups, also known as bodyweight rows. They seem to mimic our natural strength curve in a similar way

[@Joeytjee]

Just what i needed, been struggling with getting thickness in between my shoulder blades

[@coacheugeneteo]

Hope this helps

[@trainerbrandt2685]

Preach man real knowledgeable trainers like you who know the true tips for muscle activation should get the views and subscribes. Great video cheers man

[@coacheugeneteo]

Thank you

[@lukedeutsch1601]

My favourite two: 1- Double arm seated cable row 2- incline bench row

[@coacheugeneteo]

Nice!

[@Cynane27]

You're a legend mate!

[@coacheugeneteo]

🙏

[@mehmetbozkurt2746]

Love your descriptions on this video, top quality.

[@coacheugeneteo]

Thank you!

[@amer6522]

Eugene i had to tell you my most hated exercise for back was lat pulldowns because of the instability in it but when i tried it using your modification which is chest fly handles, man it became my favorite

[@Mahmoud..3543]

You're great coach ❤️💎

[@coacheugeneteo]

Thank you

[@Dominguez2001]

Mate. Ive seen a lot of exercise channels. Seeing someone who can correctly utilise anatomy and movement terminology with clear explanation is very rare, but you've done it. You've made a subscriber out of me. Keep at it.

[@tranedTurtle]

That last cue is 🔥🔥🔥thanks so much Uncle Euge, new ganbaru member looking forward to this weeks workouts!

[@coacheugeneteo]

Thank you! Welcome my friend Great t have you along at last!

[@KRainzz]

Great Video Eugene, would love a calf video and also insights on uneven calves training unilateral and tips.

[@coacheugeneteo]

Coming soon!

[@KRainzz]

@@coacheugeneteo Legend!

[@babycheesus666]

so rows and pulldowns... amazing. Thank cheesus for science based training

[@nub-cake]

Your videos are so clear and informative. You're a great teacher. Found this channel about a week ago, now a loyal subscriber. Thanks man!

[@coacheugeneteo]

Thank you very much!

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This channel is very under-rated. Great information

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I also appreciate all of your videos and GREAT knowledge. Thank you for everything you post.

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Amazing guitar collection

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Quality content! Thank you👍🏾🇬🇧

[@coacheugeneteo]

Much appreciated

[@markreilly3089]

Always a pleasure mate, thank you.

[@coacheugeneteo]

Thank you

[@shallowfakes]

Can you do a serratus video? I really appreciate this series; it’s been very helpful

[@coacheugeneteo]

Great suggestion!

[@pedrot]

Your videos are helping me a lot. Thanks

[@joelbell6075]

Nice Rafiki shirt!

[@fatalis0898]

Hey, I am a powerlifter and the way I did chin-ups was similar to your pull-down technique. Getting the full ROM in this upper back exercise was always a key way to getting a big back ( and deadlifts but only to some degree). So what I want to mention is that stretching the lat is always important, many bodybuilders had this technique back then, where they instead of resting hanged themself out at a pull-up bar. Letting the lat stretch. I also imported a technique where I pause at the end of the positive phase when my shoulder blades reach each other. Its really important to emphasize the fact that many people don't get the whole ROM while doing rows, they put on more weight and shorten the ROM. Good video greetings from europe.

[@MattFlyFisher]

🎯

[@dccsnare]

Literally I love you

[@coacheugeneteo]

haha thank you

[@rahultech2177]

The video starts at 8:18 Like here ... !

[@maximiliangruessgen4365]

My Fav Exercises are 1. Wide Row Maschine (iso lateral Row from Hammer strenght) 2. Wide grip Kabel row ✌🏼✌🏼

[@coacheugeneteo]

Excellent!

[@AZ-cc1gn]

Awesome content mate

[@coacheugeneteo]

Much appreciated

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Idk what’s better, the great workout content and knowledge learned, or the awesome shirts

[@coacheugeneteo]

Hahaha thank you

[@Decaz696]

You the man again Eugene keep the good content coming? Would live a video on upper chest exercises and how to feel upper chest activation as I struggle to feel mine

[@coacheugeneteo]

Coming up soon!

[@Decaz696]

@@coacheugeneteo Thanks man! Already looking forward to it 💪

[@vishnuramesh350]

Can we call this guy an OG for back exercises?

[@andrewgiang7521]

I’ve found I have bad neck posture. So I’m hoping these do help! I don’t feel my back is growing much at all so I’m excited

[@michaellupu2080]

I love your recommendations. This is an area I dedicate a lot of attention too as it's a weak point of mine. My faves are chest supported wide grip rows as you suggested, Chest expander pull-aparts (I'm talking about that device with springs connected to handles from the bronze/silver age of bodybuilding); the vertical pull-aparts mimic the second exercise you outlined perfectly! Ultra wide arched pullups/pulldows are also fantanstic. And for upper/mid-back erector thickness I'm favoring Good mornings, RDLs, particularly with a snatch grip, in which the bar is allowed to "drift" away from the knees and shins at the bottom of the range of motion and, more recently, inspired by your vids, Zercher squats.

[@kamilo1175]

I subscribed because of the content and how you sectioned up the video with topics. Also because I'm digging those stairs. Your channel's popularity will explode before the end of 2021. Guaranteed.

[@judowrestlerka]

Bent over bar row. Bent over dumbell Flys I have had a biceps tendonisis and a rotator cuff repair and am still building back strength and ROM.

[@TarunKumar-zi3ks]

What a quality content sir..... I m too suffering from knots and rhomboid pain..... I will surely try these exercises.. Lots of love from India...

[@Thedudeabides803]

The range of motion and angles achievable by the meadows row is legendary as I’m sure we can all agree. When I straighten my support leg along side the bar it works the hell out of my glutes and there’s a support chain along the torso being utilized I really find beneficial. Terrific info.

[@coacheugeneteo]

Yes it's great! Thank you

[@ronnysudiono315]

With this video, and the video about the lats and the rear delts, I enter a new world.... because before this I consider the back as a whole, not as 3 separate regions. I will study them now more in details, thank you! I still have to study and understand the differences of the several elbow travelling paths better.

[@phutthasone]

Fav back exercises are pull ups and rows. Keen to try what you've recommended!

[@coacheugeneteo]

Nice

[@Hersovyac]

Nice video thank you Uncle Eugene

[@vollickplaysgames]

I had pain and stiffness in my upper back until I started walking daily.. it took a few weeks but it really helped. Standing up straight and moving... weird how much it helps when you used to sit all day

[@coacheugeneteo]

Yes!

[@alvinprettyman1802]

THANKS FOR POSTING

[@martinlombns7639]

So good quality content and video editing. You make it so much fun to learn and I have taken with me so much of your content and wisdom. Thank you.

[@coacheugeneteo]

Happy to hear that!

[@uhsemehicieronlas3]

I have been training for years and I recently found your channel, your content is great!

[@the83flash]

Was just going to the gym for training back, watching this video and gonna try these 2 now

[@coacheugeneteo]

excellent!

[@LATU676]

Just in time for pull day tomorrow! Thank you sir !

[@coacheugeneteo]

Thank you!

[@jenniferdann6591]

Loving the content. This is an area I always had tightness in. Since starting to focus on my pull up variations it’s been better. Now I know why! Will definitely add in more upper back work!

[@coacheugeneteo]

Thank you! Hope Thi helps

[@kyle21843]

One of my favorite trap exercises is the rack pull. I used to be on and off with it but once i started keeping the tension in my back at all times, my traps and upper back started lighting up. Also helps strengthen the lower back and helps with deadlifting Another one is inverted rows. Flaring the elbows and grip really lights up the traps and rhomboids. Plus its all body weight so its easy to do and setup

[@Rakesh-tp3dc]

1. Rack Pulls 2. Seated Cable Rows (wide grip) 3. Pendley Rows

[@enzoarmaniable]

Pull ups all the way, all grips variations are my go-to exercices for back ! Also, big problems from stiff neck and aches on the traps.

[@coacheugeneteo]

Thank you hope this helps!

[@enzoarmaniable]

@@coacheugeneteo it does !

[@jjsifo1]

Me,tension , pain back of the head/ neck.Thanks !

[@Mocorn]

Paused the video to answer these two questions. My favourite upper back exercise is the inverted body weight row under a barbell set at hip height. I had to start somewhere and this exercise gave me the confidence to approach my upper back more seriously. On the flip side (before having watched the rest of the video) I constantly have to roll out upper back stiffness and knots. I'll even stretch my upper back out between sets.. Edit: Ah.. see, I'm doing exactly what he suggests you do not do, very stiff upper back during the exercise. I'm definitely gonna try to allow myself to stretch out more on the eccentric parts of the movements.

[@Tacomaholic]

My favorite trap exercise is a barbell shrug with a wide snatch grip, 3 second pause at the top, and a slow controlled eccentric.

[@enormechenilledanslachauss630]

Thanks for this great video.

[@cakebakernr]

Your form is beautiful sir 😎🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@mexticancun7521]

Loving this series man! Glad found you! Gracias amigo

[@DontLookBehindYou1]

This channel has grown on me... Johnnie Shrieve, Renaissance Periodization, some Van Wyck... a few others... I think I like the ones that focus on form because I've gotten the best growth by dropping weight and focusing on form

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Nice video! 👌🏻

[@coacheugeneteo]

Thank you

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one of the best coach

[@coacheugeneteo]

Thank you!

[@farizrahman4450]

Thank you Asian Omar Isuf

[@coacheugeneteo]

hahaha

[@gustavolealgomes5448]

Rings for Upperback are great for that pulling apart motion.

[@kennyshepherd8311]

Thank you!

[@coacheugeneteo]

You're welcome!

[@JuanGarcia-lf2jy]

Great content and video is very informative. 💪💪💪

[@robinferdous9164]

"There are no such things as good nor bad movements" Uncle Eugene 2020

[@coacheugeneteo]

🙏🙏

[@yourbigbro9240]

This just put things into perspective a lot better.

[@Sk0lzky]

My humerus: *leaves the socket and does a 360*

[@macmcheese2385]

@@Sk0lzky escuse me wtf

[@itchup]

I really like the shrug variation video (I watched on your app) where you are seated and slightly bent forward but shrug arms kind of up and behind the body! great contraction in my rhomboids!!!

[@coacheugeneteo]

Yes that's another great one!

[@itchup]

@@coacheugeneteo I sometimes do it at my desk when feel my neck/traps getting tight - works like a charm :D

[@lukec.9819]

Great tips and explanation as always....without the F-bombs!!! And just in time for back day!!!! Thanks!! 💪😊👍

[@coacheugeneteo]

hahahah thank you

[@rohitkadam2809]

My favourite is Australian rows and their variation,lat pull down,tbar.........

[@justinperry5953]

Great video, would love if you could dive little deeper in to the mid back my man!

[@msfitnessnut]

I love incline cable Pulldowns :)

[@bramschrijnen]

beautiful guitarre in the background btw

[@akin1989]

Another very informative video. Cheers

[@coacheugeneteo]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@jakeportolese4031]

Great video Eugene! Learned a lot! Loved how you mentioned about not being afraid for the to protract or retract in an exercise. This should not be neglected because sometimes we might have to go to these positions throughout our day. We tend to restrict to This shoulders back down and chest up. Thanks for sharing🙏🏼

[@coacheugeneteo]

Thank you!

[@bujilou]

Everyone always preaches keeping the elbows tucked in as much as possible, but might get more pullups and make upper back stronger if u just let elbows out a little bit more , gonna try, thank you

[@askingwhy123]

For the algorithm, and well-deserved!

[@coacheugeneteo]

Thank you!