How to actually HIT your LATS on LAT PULLDOWN

[@mwanze9]

My coach used to say show the gym your armpits and it always made sense to me 😂

[@nocomment5001]

Why does this work so well😂 u just fixed the form of 90% of my workouts

[@AZIZ-NEKO]

Wdym?

[@mwanze9]

@@AZIZ-NEKO so the armpit thing just makes me think about my posture and slightly leaning back during the exercise.when you do it correctly you will definitely feel your lats working and you can feel a stretch on the eccentric part of the exercise

[@Daksh-vg6mq]

​@@mwanze9can you explain it more properly I do not feel my back at all during the pulldowns

[@Sokkq]

@@Daksh-vg6mqit’s like tucking your elbows in. Pull with your elbows not your hands and try a thumbless grip.

[@Maxrizzz]

i love how the videos end with a perfect explanation

[@hristol7537]

😂😂😂😂

[@sarpuncuoglu3645]

frfr :DDD

[@kiyoshiyang3221]

Cutoff at the end

[@seratarsybagusibrahim5018]

"BOTTOMS" - Famous last words

[@markwilliam7475]

Bro giving best advice around then stops mid video 😢

[@markichulover]

I love these explain vids ngl

[@ISuPeRTNTI]

It's not about the width of the grip. I often do close grip supinated pull down and feel my lats as the main mover. The key is to use your hands as hooks, loosen the grip a bit and feel ur lats, pulling your elbows.

[@SmoothHandle]

You go that wide, I promise you that you’ll be feeling more upper back/traps. Keeping elbows close to torso will bias lats far more effectively.

[@yuijin699]

agree! I usually use a V-grip to pull

[@dadhichparashar]

yes u are absolutely right

[@alexanderthegrape5370]

He dropped the ball on this one that's way too wide

[@SmoothHandle]

@@alexanderthegrape5370 yup. Going that wide would force you to awkwardly push ur arms in front to get any lat activation. This is why folks shouldn’t blindly follow anyone’s advice. Enjoy the vids but do so at ur own risk.

[@anthonyhca]

I was always taught close grip was far better for building lats

[@wil318466]

Drop your shoulder cage down, then pull down. Works like a charm.

[@Joseph69923]

Just speaking from personal experience since I believe certain exercises work better for some than others. I like doing pulldowns with slightly outside shoulder width grip and just focus on that teres muscle, and target lats with cable pull overs and single arm cable rows because very wide pulldowns just never really felt good. At the end of the day, just do what works for you :D

[@steven97321]

Bros reactions were so confusing he had to explain

[@FiFiFilth]

I have bigger lats than hebdoes, and while I might just be genetically predisposed, I tend to focus more on the stretch. Doing full ROM is a must. For really good mind muscle connection, do single armed lat pulldowns and do a slight side crunch at the peak of the contraction.

[@Swanson-hs5df]

Nah it's not only genetics, what you're saying works. Newer (and older) research has shown that stretching under a load is hugely beneficial for hypertrophy. He's focusing on the wrong things.

[@ebenezersureshworkaccount8947]

Taking a wider grip was a game-changer for me

[@henrykgarcia689]

Just got reminded today, time to get back to work

[@Yayn001]

Thx i did it always good then

[@Skendeenee]

The way he leans back makes it look like more of a row for the traps and rhomboids

[@railasvuo]

I only felt the lats when I imagined twisting the bar outwards

[@kaspy4020]

Actually it is proven that wide of the grip doesnt change ur lat engagement and it is more like personal choice (i mean normal wide grip is the best, but the difference is so small that u should choose ur own wide). I also found out that lots of pros doing it with elbows out side says it hits more mid back other than lats. Same with lower lats i heard that the best way to hit it is with pulldowns but with reverse grip due to better shoulder position. These are small differences but worth mentioning

[@user-mt7jv4kz5p]

If I am not mistaken, it actually cuts off part of your ROM, as lats are fully contracted in the bottom point where the elbows are tucked to your body, and the wider you grip the further your elbows will be from that point

[@kaspy4020]

@@user-mt7jv4kz5p ye, i guess you're right

[@gnomadicgemhound5634]

Plz always do this tutorial

[@Sk8foxx]

Much rather prefer that transition sound. The old one was giving me hearing loss

[@anakinhavadayuruyen]

ngl people who trains back like the first guy always have the bigger backs

[@Michelle-vu3mj]

That's bcuz they mostly use all the weight lol

[@shroomger5900]

no that’s causation vs correlation issue. people who have good form but are natural aren’t as appealing as someone who has worse form and is enhanced. since the more enhanced individual can get away with not having perfect form but still gain incredible mass. hope that makes sense

[@clyropiumfauvanious]

I love you bro

[@timmy-vb6nv]

u should write an explanation in a pinned comment if u dont have enough time on your shorts for a detailed explanation.

[@soots-stayingoutofthespotl5495]

Yeah, the cut-off ending takes this into the area of ridiculous if not trolling. What-with all the stupid faces and the often unclear 'this is the way to do it' vids, I have to question why *this* is the guy that we're all paying attention to...?

[@atharvpatil1685]

Firstly do pull ups which focus middle and upper back, then do lat pull down you see you are feeling the muscle and also fast grow of upper back. Really, If you Try once you never regret this message. Also i want to add 1 thing use headphones, bcz you can do 2-3 reps after failure.😅

[@YaOkay69]

I usually never comment but he’s right, my set of 10 went up 60lbs in a year with correcting my form

[@bolillo5013]

Thanks

[@senseikevz2865]

No way he actually did an explanation 😮

[@Jay-cv8vb]

I understand everyone is different, but I tend to feel my lats wayyyy more if I use a just wider then shoulders grip position and also use a neutral grip bar, I really focus on the eccentric part of the movement, like your putting the brakes on after the pull and stretch the lat on a real controlled and slow eccentric. I think wider grip=wider lats is a big misconception in the bodybuilding scene.

[@reese3407]

If you want to feel your lats every workout warmup with pullovers

[@mohamedelgamal4564]

this targets mainly upper traps and little upper lats

[@MrInzombia]

pulling that wide has been shown to not increase any lat activation but more so puts yourself at a mechanical disadvantage by limiting the range of motion and forcing your primary movers to be biceps and small teres muscles near the shoulder blades. Not the big lats

[@ASh-zf9pd]

Jesus finally an explanation lol

[@kusftuod]

From the thumbnail I thought he was wrapping a dip belt around his neck and attached it to the lat pulldown handle to prevent going fast on the negative as u will be hanging urself

[@jacobstarr9010]

No, you should use just past shoulders width, and then focus on pulling with your elbows.

[@dioncarollo8283]

Please check out Lee Priest. Perfect form on Every rep. All-time Great 🧐

[@Veo430]

I do that but still I feel my biceps not my lat

[@Gunzo568]

Imagine overhead pressing. Just like that but lean as it needed to bias the lats. But the doms it creates🙄

[@swagmoneycash]

Should you retract your shoulders in between every rep?

[@mundashundaxd1104]

Who else is bulking rn

[@user-mt7jv4kz5p]

Excuse me, what does the "lower lats" even mean? Is it like "mid chest muscles"?

[@bineetgulati9]

I started feeling it when I choose the grips wide and leaning back a bit more than any other Person.

[@charliehell924]

I just don't do it all together.

[@Sammy-sm4yg]

Guys help me out I don't understand the gym language

[@mikahoolwerff3563]

its defo better to stack you hands and ellbows.

[@soots-stayingoutofthespotl5495]

Well, it's true that an elbows-behind-torso form works the forearms somewhat instead of the back, but since I started doing a stricter, more upright form last year (elbows and hands stacked), my forearms have got weaker and look visibly smaller to me. And I haven't really progressed with my back either. In other words, optimum form may not be the best idea overall, so I'm going to start mixing it up this year.

[@mikahoolwerff3563]

@@soots-stayingoutofthespotl5495 just use straps on back movements so your forearms dont limit you. And then add an actual forearms exercise somewhere.

[@ledionqafa7725]

😂 my response will always be, watch Arnold how he trained. Stop the cap

[@unseenasian132]

True. But he was on the roids

[@coffee.3.4]

They doesn’t even make sense there’s plenty of big dudes who don’t know what they’re talking about.I respond pretty easy to stimuli and make decent gains even with bad form and not the best diet .If I told someone who’s not as genetically gifted to just follow what I do ,they’d end up fat and weak .What works for others won’t work for you.

[@xsh4dw]

Nah arnold is confused

[@Swanson-hs5df]

Arnold had top top tier genetics and top top tier pharmaceuticals lmao. Don't do what Arnold did.

[@MikeGSK]

To be fair, hitting your lats properly on this exercise isn’t as straightforward as may seem. If you can’t do pull ups and your Gym also has an assisted pull up machine I would highly recommend you incorporate that into your routine as well as the pull down. At least until you can do proper pull ups. However for the lat pulldown theres couple of cues I use, I keep my thumbs off the bar, I also imagine I’m trying get the points of my elbows to touch behind my back at the bottom of the movement and of course the biggest and most effective cue for most back exercises is to think of your hands as hooks.

[@kanjipanda]

the bottom what?

[@evilfruit2360]

It cuts out

[@spammables4528]

Too wide, use a mid width neutral grip instead

[@Sulidaire]

You could cut down on the intro and focus on the explanation

[@ashtoncomer935]

How do I feel my lats during rowers?

[@chilldoc9638]

Depending on your grip, you might be hitting your upper back more, which isn’t a bad thing

[@hivan04]

I find close grip works my lats more is that just me?

[@user-mt7jv4kz5p]

No, I too feel lats worse with wide grip. However, if I'm not mistaken, the best grip for lat pulldown is neutral grip, actually

[@gomba3987]

Never felt my lats on it until I didn't use wide grip 🥱

[@potatofriendimprovement]

Real

[@ffagilar2245]

Think pull-ups.

[@dm7356]

If I’m not sure while at the gym, I put “(insert exercise) form” on KZbin and scroll til I find his version 😂 this guys the goat of these

[@MatteoFitness]

More like how to make sure nothing else grows. This doesn’t hit your lats more in absolute terms.

[@berke8287]

You're leaning to far back on those pull-downs.

[@DYELGAINZ]

Just do pull ups

[@phelankenyon3324]

There’s no difference with poking your head through. Functionally the same movement

[@christianmuller8161]

Elbows way to wide man

[@urllegend9941]

😂 🤓☝️

[@bandi642]

thats no longer a lat pulldown

[@davidc.2878]

Cuts off too soon dude.

[@Tomatillo12]

How early am I 😅

[@evilfruit2360]

Not early enough

[@noname-ee2st]

@@evilfruit236030 seconds ago is wild

[@Tomatillo12]

@@evilfruit2360 got first comment tho 🤓👆👆

[@evilfruit2360]

@@Tomatillo12 should've commented before the video came out

[@Tomatillo12]

@@evilfruit2360 no *posted 4 hours ago*

[@yesplease626]

Meh I don’t take advise from someone smaller than me

[@JoaoPedro-jm1ip]

Miss the old, ambiguous ones

[@RadynMoradkhani]

Seems counterintuitive

[@Mrcool179]

Can't make everyone happy hahah

[@autumn2930]

This is so not true, watch jeremy’s video on 15 science based exercises for back. You are actually hitting your mid back rather than lats when you hold a wider grip.

[@DaNiEL09937]

All wrong, this is for upper back. Do you know how biomechanics works ??😵‍💫First gain some muscles and after you can teach something.

[@FiFiFilth]

Dude has no lats at all 😂

[@j.macmillan2293]

Your video seems to cut off. (Please lose the scrunchy face, which makes you look silly.)

[@4skipper]

Not good advice!

[@AkashS97]

BS

[@AVMONK3Y]

Cringy af

[@billywolf5958]

It doesn’t matter 🤦🏼‍♂️ end result is 100% the same!

[@kostasmpilianos9824]

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