Fitness: Grow and strengthen your back muscles

Bent-over rows not only helps improve your posture but also stabilises your lower back and helps you in other exercises (Shutterstock)

Bent-over rows are an excellent exercise staple for strengthening and growing your back muscles. It not only helps improve your posture, it stabilizes your lower back and helps you in other exercises such as pull-ups and deadlifts.

However, this is an exercise that is commonly done incorrectly, leading to less than optimal results and in the worst case, to injury.