What are some good back exercises for mass as well as strength? thanks.

Oh okay....you are using heavier weight than if you were doing both arms simultaneously in traditional lat raises. You are essentially throwing your arm up, then letting it down as slow as possible.

Straight leg deadlifts, bent over BB rows, T-bar rows, lat pulldowns, and cable rows to name a few

Sorry I would like to focus on upper back. Do all these apply as well?

Yes they all still apply.

Hey SK I have really learned a lot from you especially in terms of nutrition!

I have stumbled across this site and corresponding YouTube channel and am wondering what your thoughts and opinions are thanks again for everything you are doing!

http://www.youtube.com/user/scooby1961

http://scoobysworkshop.com/

I am NOT a fan of scooby. Without going into too many details, a lot of his advice does not benefit all body types, and the general population. He has a tendency to throw his advice towards ectomorphs. He also constantly bad mouths steroids, yet he is a known user (at least former user) of various anabolics. Furthermore, his "advice" that centers around working out without using a gym and machines is total BS. He claims he doesn't work out at a gym (he absolutely does - and there are some pics of this somewhere). Personally the guy is sham, at the very least partially if not totally.

Hitting chest twice a week (Monday + Friday), is it even necessary to work out triceps?

Yes. Work triceps in no matter what.

referring to your hypertrophy plan again (about to start it so just trying to figure everything out)

on the exercises that you superset together, do you do 4 or 5 sets of each to failure? (not including a warmup set)