Group: General Fitness & Exercise

General Fitness & Exercise
Created: 2011/12/31, Members: 381, Messages: 54581

Various general exercise related discussions. Find out what it takes to reach your fitness goals through daily effective exercise. With so many options we try to find out what works best.

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lat pull downs

brandon7
brandon7
Posts: 89
Joined: 2004/05/18
United States
2004/05/25, 01:53 PM
When I am doing my lat pull downs, I can't ever get a burn in the muscles. I feel like I'm using enough weight, enough to where I can't quite get it all the way to my chest on the last couple or reps on the 4th set.

Should I lean back more, forward more?

I'm having the same problem on the seated rows.

I really need to deveope my lats, but I don't think I'm getting anywhere.

Any suggestions?
7707mutt
7707mutt
Posts: 7,686
Joined: 2002/06/18
United States
2004/05/25, 01:57 PM
One is lighten the weight. Another is to do bent over barbell rows instead as this is a great mass builder for lats. After doing them I would add the lat pull down. Leanback about 45 degrees and focus on the pull using the lats instead of your arms. When you use too heavy of a weight with this lift you use other bodyparts. My back routine goes liek this, chins (i use a assisted machine), bent rows, deadlifts, then lat pull downs.

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