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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 your upper body’s posterior muscles without an external load. Thankfully, you can shift your approach for another, less challenging (but still effective) move to train your back sans weight: the inverted row.

You might think the inverted row is easy, since you won’t be tasked with lifting your entire bodyweight off the floor, like the pullup. The exercise is super scaleable—but it’s more technically demanding than you’d expect to do it…

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