How to do wide grip lat pulldown exercises

This is an animated body sculpting tutorial for wide grip lat pulldown exercises. Use the controls to pause, slow down and follow along with detailed step-by-step text instructions that match up with each movement. This instructional fitness body building video is incredibly in depth and a great guide for learning wide grip lat pulldown exercises.

How to do Wide Grip Lat Pulldowns - Lattissimus

In this lesson you will learn how to do wide grip pulldowns. This is an exercise for the lat muscles (lat = latissimus) and broadens the back muscles. For wide grip pulldowns you need a pulldown machine an wide bow shaped bar (illustration). If you don't have this equipment, you can also do wide grip pullups instead (body weight).

Description: Wide Grip Lat Pulldowns - Lattissimus

* Position your thighs under the legpads to avoid that you lift yourself instead of pulling down the bar. Grab the wide bar both hands (hands appr. two shoulder widths apart - elbows almost extended).
* Pull down the bar and exhale at the same time. Lean back a little bit (but not too far) and also pull your shoulders down, so that your lats are fully contracted when the bar touches your chest.
* Then let the bar move back up until your elbows are almost extended and inhale.

Trainer advice: Wide Grip Lat Pulldowns - Lattissimus

* Don't swing your upper body to create momentum (don't lean back too far).
* Concentrate on pulling down your forearms in one line with the cable (when viewed from the side).
* Seated cable rows are designed to make your back more massive. Wide grip lat pulldowns on the other hand broaden your Back.