Need More Back Exercises

[bigsteal90]

I lift at home with freeweights because I dont have money to spend on a gym membership. I plan on making my own gym at home but until I do that I have to use what I have. I only work with freeweights.. Ive been doing the same three exercises for my back for months now. Ive made some decent gains but I need more exercises to switch it up a little bit. These are the exercises I have now. Thanks..

Barbell Bent Over Row
Shrug
DB Row(Bench)

[swa513]

if you have a bench you can put the bar on the pegs & lay under it & do supline rows. that is pull yourself up to the bar, like a reverse of bench. if you have anything to do pullups/chins from that would also be 2 great exercises for back.

[swa513]

Also, deadlifts are the shyt for lower back

[stealth_swimmer]

DB Row (without the bench, done with both arms at the same time, great for hitting the middle back muscles...make sure to keep your back arched like in all other back exercises)

pullup

lat pulldown(with varying grips)

[E_P_C]

Pull ups and deadlifts

[UTMatt]

You can get a pull up / chin up bar at walmart for like $20. So different hand width with those and grips. And definitely deadlifts

[Dr. Painburner]

im sure you can find something around the house to do some pull ups on. usually my order goes something as follows:

-chin ups
-deadlifts
-bent barbell rows
-one arm db rows

you will be able to add more varitey once you get a little home gym setup.

[NicktheStick]

T-bar rows, just throw your barbell into a corner, load up one side with plates and go for it....you can also do the 1 armed varation.

[engineer88]

I am in the same position as you (home gym, little money). I have gotten a bit creative over the last year or so and came up with this:

Stiff-legged deadlifts (sometimes I switch it up)
Good Mornings (these are great and you can do so many variations)
Bent over barbell rows (with back parallel to floor to hit mid back)
Dumbbell (or barbell) Leaning shrug rows

A couple of these I have to explain. First off Bent over barbell rows I rotate. I do two types every week. Standard wide grip hand facing body at start and close grip reverse grip hand away from body at start. Every other week I reverse it and it is wide reverse grip and close in standard grip. You would be amazed how this changes the muscle groups worked (outer and inner).

The leaning shrug rows I do at about a 45 degree angle and they hit upper back really well. When I do them with barbell I do as above with the grip rotation.

Doing these I hit all my major groups and at home without a machine. Which took a lot of patience and experimenting tbh.