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ACE-Sponsored Research: What Is the Best Back Exercise?
Edelburg, Porcari, Camic, Kovacs, Foster — American Council on Exercise · 2018
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.
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1 declared site: constants and thresholds in the code that point at this entry.
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