Struggling to grind out pull-ups for reps, even with the help of a strategically-placed resistance band? Allow us to introduce your shortcut to upper-body strength: the lat pull-down. The move targets ...

When doing a lat pulldown, try to maintain control and not lean back too far while pulling down. It’s best to keep your back straight and lower the weight if you cannot maintain proper form. Apart ...

Strength coaches are pivoting away from traditional overhand grips to this supinated variation that builds thicker lats and ...

I first stumbled on the single-arm lat pulldown back in college, when building a bigger back was borderline obsession. I was chasing size, symmetry, and that wide V-taper look, but standard rows and ...

The lat pulldown is a vertical pulling exercise that strengthens and builds multiple muscles in the back. While focusing on your back is often overlooked in favour of working 'trendier' muscles like ...

The one machine that even the most basic gym will have is the lat pulldown machine. A long bar with angular ends for grips, it has become almost a must-have machine for a gym to be acceptable. The ...

Gym equipment was never designed for just one type of exercise, even if, over time, certain machines started getting associated with individual exercises. For example, the Smith machine with squats, ...

The lat pull-down is an effective exercise that primarily helps to strengthen the back and secondarily the shoulders and arms. Muscles worked include the latissimus dorsi, teres major, rhomboids as ...

Your lats or latissimus dorsi muscles are large triangular-shaped back muscles that get a serious workout with the lateral pulldown, hence the name. The lats are sometimes called the wing muscles you ...