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slobberknocker
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I do dl's, narrow rows, wide rows. variety is good.
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slobberknocker
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slobberknocker said:
powershrugs help a bit too
louden_swain
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If you aren't performing barbell rows. . . . . then be prepared to be disgusted with your lat development.
Curious George
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There are a lot of great exercises for the back because there are so many different muscles to hit.
Deadlifts are great for the lats if you try and go a little lighter and squeeze your lats hard on every contraction.
Chins with all different variaties of hand spacings will hit your Lats directly. Always change your grip to hit different areas.
Rows work the back thickness. Dumbell rows in my opinion are the king due to the extreme isolation. There are really hard to do with heavy weight. Make sure to use a sawing motion. Also make sure to arch your back hard when doing these, as this allows for the lats to contract maximally.
Good Mornings are another that should be done, if for nothing but overall strength. They work on your core strength muscles of glutes/hams/lowerback. Your back will come up if you you do these or deads every other workout.
Deadlifts are great for the lats if you try and go a little lighter and squeeze your lats hard on every contraction.
Chins with all different variaties of hand spacings will hit your Lats directly. Always change your grip to hit different areas.
Rows work the back thickness. Dumbell rows in my opinion are the king due to the extreme isolation. There are really hard to do with heavy weight. Make sure to use a sawing motion. Also make sure to arch your back hard when doing these, as this allows for the lats to contract maximally.
Good Mornings are another that should be done, if for nothing but overall strength. They work on your core strength muscles of glutes/hams/lowerback. Your back will come up if you you do these or deads every other workout.
erickthegreat11
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Im trying to increase my pull ups for the Marines. I studied where my last rep would fail at and it was towards the top. So Im trying to hit my lats pretty hard. My modified workout for deadlift day is as follows:
Dead, seated row, upright row, dumbell curls, incline curls, bent dumbell rows.
I know you all are probably stronger than me, but I must disagree on Behind the neck pull downs. Them suckers are hard as hell for me! I can only work with 130# doing these, and my maximum pullups is 9. There's a guy I train with can do about 23 pull ups. He can also do about 12-13 behind the neck pull ups!! So they must correlate with each other.
Dead, seated row, upright row, dumbell curls, incline curls, bent dumbell rows.
I know you all are probably stronger than me, but I must disagree on Behind the neck pull downs. Them suckers are hard as hell for me! I can only work with 130# doing these, and my maximum pullups is 9. There's a guy I train with can do about 23 pull ups. He can also do about 12-13 behind the neck pull ups!! So they must correlate with each other.
Lord_Suston
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weighted chin-ups and babrell rows are the way to go for lat developement. overall back developement I would have to go with power cleans and deadz though, they just really blast your traps and erectors
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Debaser
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You can't really say a pullup/pulldown is better than a row. Both are necessary, in fact the row is actually more important. It's good to have a pull in both the vertical and horizontal planes, but if your horizontal pulling strength (read: rowing) is inadequate, your shoulders will actually be pulled forward because of the imbalance with your chest and pushing strength.
