How to Use rhomboid in a Sentence

rhomboid

noun
  • Reverse Flies Reverse flies pack a punch for your upper back (rhomboids and traps) and your rear delts.
    — Leoni Jesner, Health, 1 Nov. 2025
  • These moves—like rows, pull-ups, and deadlifts—naturally recruit backside players like your rear delts, rhomboids, glutes, and hamstrings.
    — Erica Sloan, SELF, 11 Sep. 2025
  • This exercise targets the majority of your major back muscles, such as your rhomboids, lats, traps, and erectors, as well as your biceps.
    — Jakob Roze, Health, 25 Aug. 2025
  • This exercise targets the majority of your major back muscles, such as your rhomboids, lats, traps, and erectors, as well as your biceps.
    — Jakob Roze, Health, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Band Pull-Aparts Toss this exercise into your dynamic warm-up to target your upper back (rhomboids and traps included).
    — Leoni Jesner, Health, 1 Nov. 2025
  • This horizontal pulling exercise effectively targets your mid-back, rhomboids, and traps, all of which contribute to improved posture and a balanced back.
    — Jakob Roze, Health, 26 Dec. 2025
  • This horizontal pulling exercise effectively targets your mid-back, rhomboids, and traps, all of which contribute to improved posture and a balanced back.
    — Jakob Roze, Health, 21 Apr. 2026
  • This horizontal pulling exercise effectively targets your mid-back, rhomboids, and traps, all of which contribute to improved posture and a balanced back.
    — Jakob Roze, Health, 17 June 2026
  • That abduction overstretches and weakens the muscles that control the scapula, including the middle traps, lower traps, and rhomboids, which can lead to pain and increase injury risk in the upper back and shoulders.
    — Jenny McCoy, SELF, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Bent Over Double Dumbbell Row This quick and efficient exercise targets all the major muscles in your back, lats, rhomboids and traps (plus your arms and core) included.
    — Leoni Jesner, Health, 1 Nov. 2025

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