Best exercises for lats

[legs7]

I want to grow lats big what are the best exercises for that?

 

[florencenoir]

pull-ups and rows
but engage your lats and back while doing the movement... don't pull with your arms, pull with your back...

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[stevesmi]

^^^ more great advice from flor

imagine you have a coin in your back when you do them. i see EVERY SINGLE DUDE in the gym doing pulls and using their arms and shoulders.. and they wonder why they have zero back

 

[SteveMobsterG]

If you've access to one give a pullover machine a go.

 

[florencenoir]

^^^ more great advice from flor

imagine you have a coin in your back when you do them. i see EVERY SINGLE DUDE in the gym doing pulls and using their arms and shoulders.. and they wonder why they have zero back

Meaning...

For every pull you need depression and retraction of the scapula.

At the beginning you can do the movement in three phases, first you do the depression, then you do the retraction, and finally you pull. Over time the movement will be clean and continuous, you will not need to think to perform every rep.

Remember for muscle hypertrophy the quality of the contraction, range of motion, time under tension are variables much more important than loads. Focus on the movement first instead of how many plates you load the bar.

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[SteveMobsterG]

Another trick is to pull the chest forward

 

[stevesmi]

and use less weight

i'm not impressed with the dudes who pull 150 pounds with shit form and make funny faces. they are only stressing out their shoulders

 

[MasonicBodybuilder]

^^^^Steve is right. I get the most pain in my shoulder if I am pulling and go too heavy.

 

[muskate]

Heavy deadlifts off the floor
Heavy bent over rows
Weighted wide grip pull ups