Back Width ...

[AndsX]

I have been doing wide-grip chinups and pulldown for back width .. but i don't it being worked out like my lower back with deadlift or middle back with Cable/Barbell row ...

Not sure if i am doing anything wrong .. I am skinny btw

 

[Cynical Simian]

I have been doing wide-grip chinups and pulldown for back width .. but i don't it being worked out like my lower back with deadlift or middle back with Cable/Barbell row ...

Not sure if i am doing anything wrong .. I am skinny btw

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[Cynical Simian]

You answered your own "question" at the end of the post: nothing is going to be wide if you're skinny. Keep getting better at the lifts you mentioned and, just as importantly if you want to get bigger, EAT.

 

[AndsX]

Hey guys I'm going to start a topic...that you might think contains a question...

but then ramble a bit and use a lot of...ellipses...and each time you think I'm about to...ask the question...

...I'll ramble a bit more...and never get around to asking the question...

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[AndsX]

I am feeling my biceps is getting worked more that anything when i do chin-ups/pulldown.

 

[Cynical Simian]

Pendlay rows (not cable rows or regular barbell rows) and deads should add nearly all the width you could want with appropriate diet. But from your comments about working low/mid back but not upper it sounds like what you're actually looking for is something that involves the traps to a high degree. Rows and deads work them to some extent, of course, but nothing beats power/jump shrugs for trap development.

Madcow has a link to a bunch of good descriptions of dynamic shrugs on his site. They're a fun and very effective movement, can be done for low or high reps, and, if that wasn't enough, have nice carryover to the top portion of the deadlift.