Sit in a lat pulldown machine and lean backward by 30 degrees.
Cable rope pulldown muscles worked.
While the cable pulldown is a fantastic exercise to build wide lats an easy tweak turns this move into a great shoulder friendly exercise that pounds the muscles in your middle and lower trapezius.
Use a cable pulley unit which can be found at fitness gyms.
Grab the bar with an overhand grip your hands shoulder width apart.
Target muscle the target of the straight arm cable pull down is the latissimus dorsi or lats.
The wide grip option of the lat pulldown targets the lats and the secondary muscles of the traps rhomboids and delts.
Stand and face an adjustable cable machine with a straight bar attachment positioned on the high setting.
In this exercise it is important to try to keep the shoulders parallel to the floor.
The latissimus dorsi or lats for short is a large muscle that spans the width of the back partially covered by the trapezius muscle.
Face the machine and grab each end of the rope with each hand so.
Stand with your legs about shoulder distance apart with your knees slightly bent.
The cable pulldown works several muscle groups of which we ve given a brief description of below.
Hips back and chest up.
Keeping your arms straight pull the bar down in an arc while squeezing your shoulder blades together and keeping your core tight.
The cable lat pull down is beneficial for building muscle mass and it works multiple muscles in this one simple exercise.
Rope pulldown exercises to build the serratus muscles.
Cable front rope raises.
Cable pull through exercise guide starting position step 3.
To feel this angle of loading it is recommended to start with a small weight.
It both stretches and contracts the muscles of the lats latissimus dorsi as well as providing additional activation to the other upper back muscles and the core.
Set the height of the rope of the cable machine to the highest setting.
With the knees slightly unlocked focus on keeping the hands into the hips and allow the tension weight to.
It can either be performed in an athletic upright stance or slightly bent over.
The latissimus dorsi is the largest muscle in your back and is what gives the body a v taper in.
The straight arm rope pull down is a variation of the straight arm lat pull down performed using a cable stack machine and a rope grip.