Your lat muscles are among the largest muscles of your back, responsible for pulling your arms closer to your body, like in a row or a pull-up. Strong lat muscles increase your pulling strength and create that wide, v-shaped back that exudes power and capability through your shirt everywhere you go. In this article, we’ll … Read more
So you want to get started with deadlift training? Excellent! The barbell deadlift is a fundamental strength training exercise that targets many of your major muscle groups, including your lower back, glutes, hamstrings, quadriceps, and core. It builds strength in a movement pattern that we use a lot in our everyday life, making it a … Read more
What’s the difference between pulling movements such as pull-ups and lat pulldowns compared to rowing movements such as barbell rows, dumbbell rows, and cable rows? This article will briefly examine the differences in terms of what muscles these exercises work. If you’ve read my article on how to train your back muscles, you know that … Read more
Key Points: Lat pulldowns have been shown to work (and grow) the biceps muscle just as good as barbell curls. At least in untrained subjects. Adding barbell curls to a program of lat pulldowns doesn’t lead to further muscle growth in the biceps. Once again, in untrained subjects. Rows only work your biceps half (50%) … Read more