Back & Shoulders Q?

[pebblesus]

Ive noticed how rounded and shapley Cathe's back is in her videos (note: Im not referirng to posture)-- and Im jealous!
My upper back is fairly flat even though Ive been lifting pretty heavy for a while. My rotator cuff is huge, but the upper back areas behind it are flat and not very rounded.
Ive recently started really incorporating irregular exercises in my routines to try really "targeting" certain areas, I add these to the end of the DVD's I do in each rotation.
Im wondeirng if anyone can pinpoint exactly what muscles are creating the "bulky" and "rounded" look and how to target them.
Ive been doing a lot of Rhomboid exercises and Ive concluded that it must be some shoulders that created the look im going for.. so Ive started targeting the rear delts more.
I do back and shoulders together now and am doing the 4DS (I really like the shoulder routine) and then at the end I add a couple rhomboid exercises and several rear delt exercises. I do the external rotations with a light weight while lying, rear lifts (looks lot like tricep kickbacks, was uses in slow and heavy).
Anyone know anything I don't? Is there somehting else I could do as well or something Im missing? I like to incorporate anything Ive missed in May's ratation.
Thanks

 

[kathryn]

The upper back is mainly comprised of the trap muscles, which are like a v-shape: wide at the top, tapering at the bottom. I think that may be what you are refering to.

You can target these with shrugs. Overhead presses also work them. (But they can make one look rather simian-like if they are overdeveloped, IMO, and are particularly unattractive on women).

(ETA: heavy full deadlifts also work the traps).

The rhomboids are fairly small muscles located more in the center, upper back, that are worked with moves like bent-over shrugs and rear flyes with the arms back farther than for rear shoulder flyes.

HTH