Improve Your Lat Pulldown For Growth | Targeting The Muscle Series

Once I switched from the bar to this attachment I started to feel my lats more.

I've got so much trouble working out my back. Lat pulldown, rows, etc. I feel like 95% of it in my arms (mainly biceps give out first)

Lat Pulldowns have always hurt my shoulders, I've tried many grips and variations. SO i just don't do them lol

Bruh, do you not put your thumbs over the bar? I would have appreciated you demonstrating the attachments and their correct form. Furthermore, it would have been helpful to hear your take on isolating the lats instead of using the biceps to pull the weight down (my problem).

This man is a national treasure and like Nicholas Cage I wanna steal him 😉

Yes, lat pulls for me is a a good thing, but same thing as you said,some bars help but the eccentric is king for me. Good form, and no shoulder pain 👍🏼

thank you

Dr. Mike, I am 6 foot 7, watching you have to stand on the seat cracks me up. Let's go halfsies and invent an adjustable height pulldown where you can lower or higher the pulley and bring it to market. I have the opposite problem, I can't get a full stretch bc at the top of my reps I am resting on the stack. I also need a higher pulley for tricep pushdowns b/c I can't get the stretch at the top of the rep there either. I have to get on my knees (which I don't mind, but there is a time and place for that).

Jaw exercise 😊

Great video, can’t wait to do pulldowns again.

thanks dr

Amazing video

its weird to me he didnt mention scapula at all

I used to use a narrow grip for pulldowns. Recently I've switched to wide grip and even though I can't lift as much weight, I can really feel my back with the wide grip.

Love his videos - because most of the instructional videos on here are devoid of context.

That bad things and fun things are basically the same I think is the prime takeaway from this

Very valuable advice and display for me! I’m constantly struggling to decide “proper” grip for me and looking for that right feel. I now understand the mechanics of lat pull-down and will be ROCKING them this morning!

This is so true. I used to hate lat pulldowns but then tried a different attachment and it made a world of difference. Now it's one of my favourite exercises, lol.

When he said “don’t put your d*ck in here” shit was funny 😂😂

Dr. Mike, if you don't have access to a gym or a lat pulldown bar, is there a way to achieve this effect with a pull-up bar device? Like the kind you hang in your doorframe?

Great Content 🙏

I start with a wide grip and a slight lean. I then go with 2-3 finger narrower grip on each subsequent set, usually 6 sets total. The lean also has straightened out by the final two sets with the narrower grip widths. Controlling the ecentric I have found gives me the best growth stimulus, too.

Oh i like the tip 😅😉

Mike if you dont want me to put my dick in something, tell me at the start of the video

One thing I’ve actually recently discovered is that going real narrow on the barbell bent over row hammers the shit out of your lats!

Feels a lot like the old school, dynamite, hammer strength low row, which as we know is one of the best machines you can use

All the tips, just for a second, just to see how they feel

I always take a wide grip for the lat pull downs and never feel anything. In fact, I’ve felt my last sore after a workout 1 time in my life. I always thought lat pull downs REQUIRED a wide grip. Thanks for this, I’m done with wide grips🤝

this is officially my favourite fitness channel.
don't put your dick in here

Hilarious as always, cheers Mike

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Nice tips. I never feel my back when i work it. It sucks.

Putting thumbs over the bar rather than under helped me enormously even tho its a small adjustment. It encourages you to use your arms more as hooks for stronger back engagment.

I feel like this would've been more effective as a 5 minute video

This guy uses profanity perfectly paired with soft speaking and it's so enjoyable to watch

I know basic anatomy don't put you're dick in here hahahah

Great vids, Mike! Thanks!

Curious…. Without a pull-up bar, power rack, any cable machines, and no funds or space to add either of these options, how would one develop at least very visible lats at home? Asking as even when I had a gym membership, I was never able to get any doms or visible change in my lats in the several months of work…. Asking as a mildly built dude with absolutely no lats…

wow I would never guess you are under 5'!
I am kinda short myself and I've developed a skill to guess how tall people are.
Your physique really works out for you!

Dr Mike, on the incline press where do you bring the bar down.

I use the second bar path shown with v-bar handle for some reason it is satisfying

What about a pull down with a v-bar?

what he said about his height was a joke right?

Being a girl in the gym I'm always clueless how to use or to at least make myself feel like I'm doing right accordingly to my body comfort without contributing much on injuries, Dr Mike generously share enriching information, thank you Dr 💙 you've done a great deal for us the newbies.

Love the videos Dr. Mike! Just outside shoulder mag grip and supinated close grip are fire for me.

holly ..fucking ...shit .. 3 in 1 combo. hahah

Excellent video! I was just talking with my pops about the way I have trouble with lat pulldowns and not feeling anything in my lats at the weights I've been doing. I need to experiment more with grip and, I think, higher weight. As is, I feel my forearms, hands, biceps and shoulders before I feel my lats at all.

Anyone seeing this please give a reverse close grip pulldown a shot it feels so good on my lats