The barbell row is an excellent exercise for building up your back muscles. More specifically, you'll work your mid- and upper-back muscles, like the lats, rhomboids, traps, and rear delts.

By doing barbell rows – a.k.a. bent over rows – correctly, you can reap the benefits of this excellent compound exercise sooner: namely building big lats – the big muscles on your back that ...

Barbell rows are commonly used in strength or hypertrophy training (the muscle-building process) because your muscles are under tension for longer. Most people can also load more using barbell rows, ...