Lat Pulldowns ("BAD" FORM | BIG GAINS!)

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The next time you do lat pulldowns in your back workout, you might want to start rocking. In this video, I’m going to show you how “bad” form on the lat pulldown could actually help turn this back exercise into an even more effective one by taking advantage of muscle movement and anatomy. Now, I’m not talking about the momentum of swinging the weights around and preventing the lats from even moving the bar. Instead, you will get focused contraction in the lat muscles and even greater range of motion capable of unlocking even more muscle hypertrophy. 60% off all AX programs - http://athleanx.com/x/433-workouts Subscribe to this channel here - http://bit.ly/2b0coMW First it helps to understand a bit of the anatomy of the lats. The key thing you want to remember is that while the lats are large and span a wide area of the back, ultimately they have a distal attachment on the upper arm. This means, the lats are going to be influenced by the position of the arm during pulldown movements. You may have seen some people performing their lat pulldowns with an underhand grip and their elbows in front of their body while others prefer to do them with an overhand grip and their elbows out to the side. Is either one right or even better than the other? Well, from a standpoint of getting a stretch on the muscle, when the elbows are out in front of the body you can get a good stretch on the lats at the top of the pulldown since the origin and insertion will be furthest from each o

Published 2018-03-18 · Watch on YouTube ↗
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