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And lastly, used as an activation exercise to help get the lat muscles 'firing'." How to: Sit in a lat pulldown station and grab the bar above with a grip slightly wider than shoulder-width.
Athlean-X founder and strength coach Jeff Cavaliere shares the only two lat exercises he thinks you need in a new YouTube video. A Top Trainer Shared the 2 Best Lat-Building Exercises Skip to main ...
Cable pull-down exercise to the front with a medium-width overhand (pronated) grip. The pull-down exercise is a strength training exercise designed to develop the latissimus dorsi muscle. It performs the functions of downward rotation and depression of the scapulae combined with adduction and extension of the shoulder joint.
Compound exercises for the 'lats' typically involve elbow flexion and tend to recruit the biceps brachii, brachialis, and brachioradialis for this function. Depending on the line of pull, the trapezius muscles can be recruited as well; horizontal pulling motions such as rows recruit both latissimus dorsi and trapezius heavily.
The inverted row is an exercise in calisthenics. It primarily works the muscles of the upper back—the trapezius and latissimus dorsi—as well as the biceps as a secondary muscle group. The supine row is normally carried out in three to five sets, but repetitions depend on the type of training a lifter is using to make their required gains.
Swimming is one of those athletic endeavors that soothes the mind while building muscle in a low-impact, easy-on-the-injuries way. It happens to be a sport that’s ideal for seniors, and once ...
Strength training is primarily an anaerobic activity, although circuit training also is a form of aerobic exercise. Strength training can increase muscle, tendon, and ligament strength as well as bone density, metabolism, and the lactate threshold; improve joint and cardiac function; and reduce the risk of injury in athletes and the elderly ...
Muscles Worked: A plank is a full-body exercise, but specifically, it works your transverse abdominis, rectus abdominis (aka the six-pack), internal and external obliques and scapular (shoulder ...