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Back Workout: Extend Your Lats

Exhaust your back muscles for a better V-taper with this grueling extended set.

Back Workout: Extend Your Lats
Written By Jim Stoppani, PhD
Updated July 14, 2020

I get this question from time to time: When I train lats, I can never feel them like I do when I train chest or biceps. Are there any good exercises that will really make me feel it in my lats?

Thing is, the lats are generally a tougher muscle group to feel. For one, almost every exercise you do for lats is a multijoint move involving numerous other muscle groups. Plus, it’s not one of the “mirror muscles” you can easily see like the pecs, biceps or abs, which creates something of a disconnect with this muscle. That said, I have just the exercise – actually, exercises, plural – you need to feel the lats, even if it’s the next day when delayed-onset muscle soreness (DOMS) is making them scream. I’m talking about one simple movement, the lat pulldown, performed with multiple variations: behind-the-neck lat pulldowns, wide-grip pulldowns to the front and reverse-grip pulldowns. You’ve probably done all these variations without ever feeling them in the lats. The difference this time is that you’ll be doing them

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