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Back-Building Workout: Compound Your Growth

Employ this brutal compound set of bent-over rows and inverted rows to build greater width and thickness in your back.

Back-Building Workout: Compound Your Growth

If you're looking to add some thickness to your back, I've got a great rowing compound set for you (which I covered in the below video). In case you're not familiar with a compound set, it's the same as a superset (two exercises performed back to back without resting) – except that both exercises train the same muscle group, not opposing bodyparts.

In this compound set you'll be pairing bent-over rows and (bodyweight) inverted rows. In the video, I demonstrated the bent-overs rows in a Smith machine simply because that's where I prefer to do inverted rows; doing both exercises on the same piece of equipment minimizes time between exercises to maximize intensity. But if you'd rather do barbell rows (particularly if the Smith machine is close by or if you're doing your inverted rows using the same squat rack as your barbell rows), feel free to do so. For that matter, you could swap in bent-over dumbbell rows if you like – for example, if you're training at home and you have dumbbells and no barbell and you also have some TRX bands for inverted rows. Point being, there are any number of variations you can use for this compound set, but the general premise is to do a bent-over row and a bodyweight inverted row.

This is a fairly advanced compound set, since (1) bent-over rows are a big compound movement that can take a lot out of you, and (2) because inverted

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