OUT OF ALL the machines you'll find on the gym floor, few are as effective and useful for building back muscle than the lat pulldown machine. Replicating the lat pulldown is tough to do, but these ...

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 ...

A special thanks to Seth Payne for demonstrating the exercises in this installation of the Fitness Corner. Seth just finished his Monday workout the day after the Titans game and was willing to take ...

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 ...

What Is a Lat Pulldown? The lat pulldown is an upper-body exercise that focuses on the muscles of your back. Much like the squat and bench press, it’s considered a compound exercise — meaning that it ...

If you ask anyone who’s built a big back how they did it, they’ll probably list a mix of back exercises like pullups, chinups, and the classic overhand lat pulldown. But there’s one underrated move ...

Leg day, arm day, ab day—but what about lat day? Lats are the largest muscles in your upper body and the core of any workout routine. Most people use the term lats, but the scientific name for the lat ...

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 ...