The perfect back workout! Of course this will vary from person to person, but for those who have an overall goal of muscle hypertrophy, or increasing muscle mass, it is important to focus on key or the best back exercises.

The largest muscle of the back are the lats, or more formally the latissimus dorsi, which are large fan shaped muscles originating along the lower spine, and inserting on the upper humerus.

Lat exercises therefore must take into account the normal function of these muscles, which include shoulder extension, adduction and internal or medial rotation of the upper arm.

The best way to perform any lat exercise is to focus on generating tension and maintaining tension in the lats. While this may be a challenge for beginners, with practice comes progress in acquiring the skills of contracting these large muscles optimally for muscle growth.

The overall hypertrophy of the lat muscles based on including these exercises into an ideal back workout will over time lead to a wider back, and the v-taper physique or appearance that most men who spend significant periods of time in the gym are working to achieve.

This video describes how the cable pullover is ideally performed, which is one of if not the best exercise for targeting the lats, particularly the diagonal fibers on the outer or distal portion of the muscle - thus resulting in a widening appearance of the back.

In addition, common mistakes that people make when doing the exercise are discussed. These common mistakes occur not only on the cable pullover, also called the straight arm cable pullover, or straight arm cable pulldown, but also apply to many other back exercises including the lat pulldown, various cable rows and dumbbell rows, and even barbell and machine row exercises.

With a goal of building a wider back or a thicker back, including the best exercises that target the lats as well as other back muscles - the teres major and minor, rhomboids, posterior delts or rear delts, the trapezius, particularly mid-traps and lower traps will all need to be included in the best workouts designed for muscle hypertrophy and overall back growth.

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