Greetings and Happy Holidays to all. And best of health in the coming year.I have been away for awhile and felt a bit inspired with the upcoming new year upon us. My current personal situation in my life has required me to take a break from training. Family/medical issues, but really ...
This challenging calisthenics move focuses on your lats. And while still an effective body-weight forearm exercise, it places less stress on the biceps compared with the chin-up. 11. Eccentric (Negative) Pull-Up Eccentric Pull-Up 00:0000:00 Skill Level Intermediate Step up on a bench or ...
Even though this exercise targets a big muscle like the lats, weak arms, and shoulders can seriously debilitate your ability to perform even one rep. Plenty of progressions are available to master the pull-up, making it possible for anyone to get their game up. Performing a compound exercise...
Weight exercises for middle back Pullovers and Flies Pullovers work the lats, the chest and the triceps. High row and reverse fly work the upper back, involving the shoulder blades as well as the back of the arms. Lateral bar pulldown Your thighs have to be under support while you sit...
Even though this exercise targets a big muscle like the lats, weak arms, and shoulders can seriously debilitate your ability to perform even one rep. Plenty of progressions are available to master the pull-up, making it possible for anyone to get their game up. Performing a compound exercise...
Overview The wide grip lat pulldown is a very effective and popular exercise for the back muscles. It works the whole upper back area and also the lats [...] March 19, 2015 Bent Over Barbell Row Overview If you have to choose only one exercise you have to perform to have a great...
This is a basic yet excellent pull exercise targeting your lats and biceps with more focus on the later. Not to get confused with the very similar exercise, pull-ups, chin-ups are executed with an underhand grip for more bicep guns-building activation. To perform hang on a bar with a...
Choose atraining goal, which you can achievewithout equipment: Strength,Isometrics,Plyometrics,Jumping Power,Cardio / Endurance,Warm Up,Weight Loss Choose amuscle groupyou want to train: Upper Arms,Forearms,Biceps,Triceps,Pecs,Lats,Lower Back,Deltoids,Neck,Rectus Abdominis,Obliques,Core,Thighs,Adducto...
From the seated position, you reach for the cable (there are several different handles) and pull as if you are rowing a boat. The handles can be straps, a V-bar, or a straight bar. The wider the grip the more you will use your lats (muscles in the back that give swimmers that ...
(and if we were talking about taking out pullups, that would include any pulldown and pullover). Pullups not only destroy your lats, letting you build some great width to add to your hopefully growing medial delts, but they also hit your biceps hard and it can be argued that they ...