The Wide Grip Pull-ups
Arnold also put the target on his upper back region and concentrated on the outer lats. By just holding the iron with keeping a wider distance between shoulders Arnold tried to perform pull-ups. He surprisingly did the behind the neck version of the pull-ups successfully and mastered it too. Researchers have shown that even a narrower grip can help the lats to get activated as it increases the range of motion. Pulling the body as high as possible and trying to touch the iron to the back side of the neck must be the priorities without forgetting about form, this is what Arnold used to do.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vkz24NSbrAs
T-Bar Rows
Well, if there’s an exercise that you unquestionably should be doing on back day, it’s the ‘T-bar Rows’, very important exercise for your back development. Just look at some of the greatest backs in the history of the bodybuilding, you’ll see that they all worked T-bar rows. Arnold, Ronnie, Franco, Dorian and list goes on.
The only one and the best way to do T-Bar Rows requires you going heavy and going intense otherwise you’re doing your back a disservice and it will be noticeable.
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Check the classic training clips from the Pumping Iron days, the T-Bar row was literally everywhere in the footage.
The V-Bar Chins
A V-bar is a lat pulldown attachment with an inverted V profile. He modified the arrangement in such a way that he kept one of the V-bars on the pull-up bar to perform narrow grip pull-ups. The body is kept in arched form so that the inner lats and lower back
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