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 ...

Using a bar that is adjusted to the height of your hips, take a shoulder-width overhand grip and slowly walk your legs under the bar until you are hanging at a 30- to 45-degree angle from the floor ...

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 ...