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The body’s broadest muscle is also one of the hardest to feel working. Collect your gold star on the way out if you guessed the lats or the latissimus dorsi. Some lifters find it challenging to form a mind-muscle connection with their lats because they are often used with other muscles when...

There’s more than one way to “give you wings,” and this one doesn’t come in a can. Lat pulldowns target the broad, flat, winged-shaped muscle coveted by many lifters. Although pull-ups and chin-ups remain the gold standard for building the lats, lat pulldowns and the kneeling straight-arm...

Mastering The Straight Arm Pulldown The Straight Arm Pulldown The straight arm pulldown is an excellent lat-isolating strength exercise which has been derived from the classic lat pulldown exercise. Unlike the lat pulldown, the straight arm variation involves assuming a standing position...

There is nothing worse than a weightlifter with big muscles and terrible posture. We’ve all seen them. You know who I’m talking about. You may even be one of them, standing in the gym with a stringer tank top and massive front delts pulling your shoulders forward. I’m not just talking about...

EZ Bar vs Straight Bar Curl Before determining which exercise is better, we have to understand what the biceps do. The biceps have 2 main functions. The one most people remember and acknowledge is the flexing/pulling of the forearm. But the other function of the biceps is to help supinate the...