How the FUCK do you get mind muscle connection on this exercise?

How the FRICK do you get mind muscle connection on this exercise?

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  1. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Close your eyes

  2. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    By understanding mind to muscle connection

  3. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Stop ego lifting

  4. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    use a neutral grip

  5. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    What really helped me was not swinging back and not relying on momentum to pull the weight down

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >not ripping it (without leaning) and trying to stop the bar after it smashes into your sternum
      Highly recommended.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      What worked for me was practicing with really low weight like 50-70 lbs and gradually working the weight up. Try pulling with your pinky and ring finger, avoid pulling with your index and middle finger. Bring the weight down and back up in a nice slow and controlled manner. Holding and squeezing the weight at the bottom also helped.

      Also this

  6. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Touch your elbows to the floor no seriously try it

  7. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Sounds like a skill issue.

  8. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Sounds like a skill issue

  9. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    take as wide of a grip as it feels comfortable to do.
    lean back slightly and bring your shoulders back (and stay steady, don't move the weight by leaning back and forth between reps).
    touch the bar to your upper chest on each rep (if you can't do this, the weight is too high).

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Oh and also don't grip the bar with your thumbs, grip it with your thumbs up like suicide grip on bench

  10. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    change the handle and do them one armed with moderate weight, go full range of motion

  11. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    By doing a superior (in every possible way) exercise .

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Or the alternative

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      A normal weight adult male should not be able to do more than 10 pull ups.

  12. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    You're still thinking about using your arms to pull the bar down instead of thinking about using your elbows to do it.
    With pulldowns, the hands are ONLY hooks, not to be used to move the bar, so you have to train yourself to know how to make the elbows the prime movers for such things and then, you'll figure it out.

  13. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Idk and don't care. I just yank 80% of the stack for reps and my lats keep getting wider

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Just move the weight and don't worry about it, that's nerd shit.

      This is the correct response

  14. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Just move the weight and don't worry about it, that's nerd shit.

  15. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Just do wide grip pullups instead 😉

  16. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    just picture instead of pulling the bar to you, you to the bar

  17. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    as long as your form is fine and youre controlling the weight it doesnt matter if you cant feel some mind muscle bullshit. thats not how your body works. you cannot do a lat pulldown or pullups without your lats. they are working

  18. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    You have mind-muscle connection by default. Just lift.

  19. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    I get a great conenction with a shoulder width, neutral grip bar NOT a super wide grip. I also pull the bar down to just below the sternum, at the uipper ab area. I also dont maintain an artifically strict torso. At the top, Im sort of erect, at the bottom i'm leaning back a bit. When I do this I feell a real good strecth in the lats at the top and a tight contraction at the bottom. Also, learn where the rhombiods are use them to pull the scapula back at the bottom, let them flare out at the top.

  20. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    use smaller weight first and dont try to completely pull it down. imagine your arms are just hooks and focus on flexing the back muscle to lower the elbows somewhat. If your arm muscles dont have to work at their limit then its easier to practice that focus on contracting the back. Same is true with not caring about the exact movement range at first.

  21. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    My right shoulder always hurts a lot when I do this 🙁

  22. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Do the exercise with proper form; so be as upright as possible like in a pullup

  23. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Push your shoulders down Black person. And keep it that way on the way up as well

  24. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >mind muscle connection
    Dead meme

  25. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Stop doing them and just do pull ups. This was litcherablly made for people too weak to do pull ups and is obsoleted by the gravitron
    If you're going over BW in this you're just doing pull ups anyways
    That's honestly the big issue, it's light enough to not lift you off the ground then it does nothing, or it's heavy enough but you're doing this weird cheated movement
    >objections
    Fine. Pendlay row
    Don't understand why people tout this as the goat lat builder, I'm pretty sure they just think it's fun. Many such cases

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      > gravitron
      Do you mean Gravitons(like theoretical gravity particles)?
      > That's honestly the big issue, it's light enough to not lift you off the ground then it does nothing
      What if you are just weak or pro bodybuilder heavy? Those are only reasons I can see for not doing pull-ups instead, for example I’m 185lbs usually and relatively weak so I can only do 10-11 reps and cannot get volume I need 3x8-12 at 1RIR

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        rel
        You getting to those reps already tells me you're over the lat pulldown
        If your gym doesn't have these you can do pullups with a band assistance instead
        But also there are many other exercises to hit lats if you so need, such as rows, the pulldown is really just a high row anyways
        Moar volume on pulldowns that isn't activating lats, is that really better volume

  26. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Nice forearm pulldowns

  27. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    It's hard to feel your back with that grip, you can go wide and with a supinated grip to feel it much more. If not just watch out your form until you get bigger

  28. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Do weighted pull ups instead fatty

  29. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    do suicide grip
    low weight, many reps
    do pull ups, same thing

  30. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Some leaning is ok, right?

  31. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Other anons posted good advice but also consider training compound lifts like the bent over row to understand and develop lats better. Also, try to do at least one pullup if you don't.

  32. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    you just the pull the thingie down

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