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    I just found out about abcbodybuilding from these forums and it is great. but I was skimming through the delts and found most the exercises were for front and side delts. Why are there not many for rear? is the rear delts hit whendoing traps? this upper back area I don't know too much about and would like to beable to hit up every muscle group but am not sure if rear delts and traps get hit while doing the same exercises.
    the only real exercise i know for rear delts is a reverse pec dec or same motion but on an incline bench lying on your stomach.
    are there any other workouts that I don'tknow about that are goodfor the rear delt?

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    notalot of options for rear delts, reverse pec dec, or mimicing the same using free weights on an incline is about it, youdo get some rear delt work when you work back, it just isnt an isolated movement,it incorporates alot of muscle groups. as far as isolated movements, that is about all you have,

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    for rear delts:

    reverse pec deck (machine)

    seated rear dumbbell raises (sitting on a bench, bend your waist so your chest is almost touching your thighs, arms hanging to your sides. raise the dumbbells upwards in an arch, like a flye)

    standing bent over rear raises (standing, bend at the waist until your upper body is parallel to the ground, raise your arms out to your sides in an arch)
    *you can do this same movement on an incline bench, like you mentioned, or with cables*

    standing cable rear-laterals (taking the high cables in opposite hands (right hand grabs left cable, left hand grabs right cable) hold your arms slightly above face level, and pull the pulleys backwards in a flye motion, takes time to master, but once its been figured out, its a great burner for the rear delts)

    wide-grip bent-over rows (bend at the waist whilst standing, so your upper body is paraellel to the ground. take a very, very wide grip on a light barbell, and row upwards into your middle chest. unorthadox, but works for sure. maybe superset with some form of rear lateral raise)

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    just about to post a question just like this.....thanks for the exercises...ill have to try the free weight ones though.......no machines

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    Rear Dumbbell lateral raises, (pronated grip) meaning turning the weight down...

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