Having wide, strong and muscular back muscles are often associated with aesthetics. This is far from the truth! Besides being visibly appealing, back muscles serve a plethora of other benefits that are essential to your biomechanics and overall joint health. For optimal performance and peak efficiency, it is highly recommendable that you try some of these exercises out in order to develop your back muscles in areas that they might need strengthening at.

1. Kettlebell Windmills. An underrated exercise that works your stabilizers like no other, primarily the stabilizers in your scapula. In addition, it strengthens the rotator cuffs of your shoulders and improves aerobic function. The reason for the latter is because it is an exercise that targets several muscle groups at the same time.
2. Turkish Get Up. A rather technical exercise that will take you a bit of time to get the hang of. Targets several muscle groups as well. Moreover, it provides you with a strong hip hinge and engages your upper back muscles in the process. If you are new to this exercise, be careful and use light weights.
3. Standing Pull Up variations. Diversify the types of grips and hand placements you use in order to attack your back muscles from different angles. Make sure you have full range of motion when executing each repetition so that you gain the full benefit of the exercise. Pull ups improve back width and thickness. 
   CHALLENGE: Pull ups using a towel. Be prepared to feel your forearm muscles burn!
4. Inverted Pull Up. Start off by placing your body parallel to the ground and pull your body upwards towards the bar or the gymnastic rings you’re using. Make sure you use neutral, supinated and pronated grips regularly. This exercise involves the entire posterior chain, provides body awareness and midline stabilization.
5. Med Ball Overhead Backwards Toss: An explosive and ballistic movement that helps you with muscle coordination and overall back development.
6. Lat Pull Down variations. An absolute classic of an exercise that allows you to go rather heavy. In addition, this exercise allows you to add a lot of volume, while isolating your back muscles for proper mind-muscle connection. To get the most out of this exercise, try going very slow when you’re on the eccentric part of the motion.
7. Bent-Over Row variations. Whether you’re using dumbbells or a barbell, this exercise builds your trapezius, infraspinatus, rhomboids, latissimus dorsi, teres major, teres minor. In layman terms, you’ll be able to hit different back muscle groups at the same time.
8. Deadlift variations. A staple compound movement that works your lower and upper body. Make sure your body is mobile enough to execute full reps. If not, you can try chopping this exercise into different chunks in order to initially get stronger as well as master the movement.
9. Squat variations. Lifting heavy when it comes to squatting will undoubtedly work your whole upper back and lower back region. Stabilizers such as transversus abdominis, multifidus and pelvic floor (called trunk stabilizers) are engaged to support your body in an upward posture while having gravity and weight push you downwards.
10. Plank variations. Planks are by no means a massive back builder. However, planks do strengthen your spine and make you more flexible so that you are able to lift heavy in the exercises that actually work your back muscles. The back is made up of many intricate muscles. You should focus on developing all of them so that you feel comfortable lifting more in your primary lifts.