What is the best exercise for widening your lats?

[Andrewgen_Receptors]

Back on topic...

Lat Pulldowns are probably #1. Personally, I found the most benefit from the Hammer Strength machines you can sit sideways on to go unilateral.

Straight Arm Lat Pulldowns #2 to do the same thing as #1, but now with stretch-mediated hypertrophy.

 

[BRICKS]

Your lat insertions, just like every other muscle insertion in your body, are genetically determined. You can't fkn change that. There are no exercises specifically for back width. That's like the notion you can build your inner chest. If you want a "wider" looking back, develop a bigger back. Want your "inner" chest to grow, grow a bigger chest.

Work your lats and delts hard and heavy if you want to look wider.

 

[Test_subject]

That does not change the fact that a person's ability to do pullups is limited by their strength to weight ratio - it simply provides a way to lessen the impact of the limitation and/or still get some benefit from the exercise. Following your [il]logic, I could claim that I can bench press 800lbs - if I use bungi cords attached to ceiling hooks to support enough of the weight.

There it is: the dumbest thing that I’ve read all day.

Your ability to do any exercise is limited by your strength (and weight to an extent); otherwise 150 lb people would be benching 900 lbs raw in Planet Fitness.

If you can’t do pull-ups because you have a poor strength to weight ratio, there’s literally a machine designed to negate that issue called the “assisted pull-up machine” for fuck sakes. You can adjust them so you’re lifting next to no body weight.

 

[Send0]

If you can’t do pull-ups because you have a poor strength to weight ratio, there’s literally a machine designed to negate that issue called the “assisted pull-up machine” for fuck sakes. You can adjust them so you’re lifting next to no body weight.

I've mentioned this and I've mentioned bands as well. According to him that's still wrong for some reason, despite the fact that it's not any different from taking weight off the bar or stack when you're too weak to move it in a given exercise .

 

[Test_subject]

I've mentioned this and I've mentioned bands as well. According to him that's still wrong for some reason, despite the fact that it's not any different from taking weight off the bar or stack when you're to weak to move it in a given exercise .

Yeah his argument is out to lunch. Loading with body weight is no different than loading with plate/dumbell weight.

The only difference is that you can’t take weight off your body (within the timeframe of a single workout) but the assistance machine completely negates that issue.

Buddy is arguing just to argue.

 

[Yano]

The only difference is that you can’t take weight off your body (within the timeframe of a single workout)

I beg to differ more an more on that as I get older ... that roll of toilet paper in the work out cabinet ain't just for show

 

[Test_subject]

I beg to differ more an more on that as I get older ... that roll of toilet paper in the work out cabinet ain't just for show

Giant shits notwithstanding.

 

[Jonjon]

Pull ups is what injured my right elbow two years ago. Still ain’t right. So I do rows
I can do pull-ups supinated but not the traditional wide grip pull up

 

[buck]

When i was not strong enough to do pullups with my bodyweight. I started off with just doing negatives and lower myself then jump/throw myself back up and repeat. There were no counterbalance machines in the dark ages. Then i got to where i could do 1. I then would come in and pick number and i would pulls ups till i got my reps. If it took 10 sets to do 10 reps so be it. But i worked my way up to being able to chain 2, 35 pound plates to my waist for reps.