Is it even possible to rape your lats without a pull-up bar or pulldown machine?
Rows just don’t really feel like they’re hitting them fully.
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Is it even possible to rape your lats without a pull-up bar or pulldown machine?
Supposedly 1 arm db rows with a big stretch can do it.
I just do pull-ups and pulldowns after.
T-bar row is the goat.
This guy gets it. I throw 6 plates on a T bar and use a close grip handle under it. Feels like ur lats are getting pulled off ur body, then I just follow up with pullovers for more of the same stretch and squeeze.
Im guessing you work out from home. Seal rows, optionally with scapula protracted. I feel them better than any other exercise. 1 arm DB row is also fine. Also head supported barbell row, without scapula retraction. Because of the head support, you can remove lower back as limiting factor. You can also hit them hard on deadlifts, but you can bias lats more by doing it snatch grip.
So snatch grip deadlifts and a good rowing movement (with scapula protraction)
Not OP. I work out at home, and chest supported rows (it’s the same thing, r-right?) really are the answer. It takes the lower back and legs completely out of the equation.
A 17” flat bench won’t be high enough unless you’ve got midget arms, and the incline mechanism on adjustable benches will get in the way. The options are a flat bench that you raise, or an adjustable bench on an incline using dumbbells.
!!!GENERAL QUESTION BARBELL ROW!!!
WHAT IF I DO IT WITH STRAIGHT LEGS? Do i have the threat of hurting my back? I extra did it with straight legs and had a guy come up to me saying its very wrong. Is it?
Yes this will destroy your lower back if you keep doing it.
Interesting. I just felt it more in my back (in a good way) with straight legs. But of a Black person immediately comes up to me and you guys say the same I will not do it anymore.
>oh black magic bull teach me your ways, frick my wife
get bent
>I just felt it more in mu backside (in a good way) with straights. Butt off a Black person - immediately come in me, you guys!
Seek therapy.
Slipping a disc to own the libs
That good way becomes the bad way very quickly. Do the form correctly with the knees slightly bent and your lower back neutral.
Anyway another general barbell row tip is to use an ez bar instead. Still hits everything it needs to but is far more comfortable.
No, it's just gonna put more load on your hamstrings
pullovers
I've never lacked access to pullups or pulldowns so I've never had to worry about this so I haven't actually done the exercise I'm about to recommend you try. Try doing a dumbbell pullover on a decline bench. If it's a steep decline & the dumbbell doesn't smack into the floor you could roughly simulate a lat pullover machine.
It's funny because the only thing I feel when I do rows is my lower back. I know that I hit all the other back musculature as well but my lower back always gives out first because it needs to stabilize so much. I'm not rounding it, I filmed myself. Might need to do chest supported rows instead.
Weird. It feels like it’s spread out over so many muscles that nothing really gets hit. Nothing ever gets sore from them even though the numbers go up.
the lats work by bringing the elbows behind the body, so any type of row is going to work them. As far as isolating them goes, you have to look at how their fibers are aligned and do a movement that follows that path. So a pullup actually isn't completely isolating them. You need a cable or band to completely isolate them.
>Pendlay
The most moronic row out there. Either do chest supported or Yates row. Allows you to put reasonable weight without giving a frick about your back.