Back·Cable·Compound

Full Range-Of-Motion Lat Pulldown

Lats · Cable

Intermediate

Body Part

Back

Equipment

Cable

Level

Intermediate

Type

Compound

Force

Pull

The Full Range-Of-Motion Lat Pulldown is an intermediate cable exercise that primarily targets the Lats.

Muscles Worked

Lats primaryBiceps secondaryUpper Back secondaryShoulders secondary

How to Do the Full Range-Of-Motion Lat Pulldown

  1. 1Either standing or seated on a high bench, grasp two stirrup cables that are attached to the high pulleys. Grab with the opposing hand so your arms are crisscrossed about you and your palms are facing forward.
  2. 2Keeping your chest up and maintaining a slight arch in your lower back, pull the handles down as if you were doing a regular pulldown. The range of motion will be more of an arc. During the movement, rotate your hands so that in the bottom position your palms face each other rather than forward. Return slowly to the starting position and repeat.

Related Exercises

Exercise data from the open-source Free Exercise DB.