ACE-Sponsored Research: What Is the Best Back Exercise?
Edelburg, Porcari, Camic, Kovacs, Foster — American Council on Exercise · 2018
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last checked 25 July 2026
What this work gives Aellic
EMG comparison of eight back exercises in 19 trained participants: rowing movements activate the middle trapezius most strongly, pull-up and chin-up the latissimus.
Correction of 25 July 2026
What was measured was the MIDDLE and LOWER trapezius, never the upper — and the study does not say that rowing barely loads the latissimus; it assigns the best exercise per muscle. Commissioned research without journal publication, and graded accordingly.
The entry on the register was wrong. It was not replaced but kept — with what holds instead standing next to it.
Where this sits in the engine
1 declared site — constants and thresholds in the code that point at this entry.
- Training Which muscles an exercise loads 1 site
Register entry ace_back · Manufacturer data