Do Lat Pulldowns Like This Instead (BETTER LATS GAINS!)

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Get bigger lats and a ripped athletic body with ATHLEAN-X http://athleanx.com/x/build-the-complete-athletic-body-here Lat pulldowns are a popular back exercise that is commonly done to build big lats. While it is a good exercise, the way you are doing it may not be best for helping you to build your biggest lats. The importance of maximizing the eccentric stretch on the muscle you are working during an exercise is critical to the strength of the contraction that you get when doing it. If you never experience a good stretch on the lats during a lat pulldown then you won’t be able to get the maximum benefits from the exercise. In this video, I show you how to improve the results you see from doing lat pulldowns by changing that way you do the exercise. It all revolves around how you set up to the machine. In the classic version of the lat pulldown exercise, you sit at the machine and face the bar. You grab the bar with either an overhand or underhand grip and complete the move by pulling the bar down to the upper chest or collar bone. There are a couple of problems with this execution of the exercise that may be holding you back. Now keep in mind, this is not an incorrect way to perform the exercise, it just may not be the best way for you. This is particularly true of those that say they can feel the movement more in their biceps than they can in their back. If that is you, try this lat pulldown tweak out the next time you hit this exercise in your back workout. I

Published 2015-10-13 · Watch on YouTube ↗
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