best lat exersise

[HighIntensity]

Actually thats completely untrue - in a compound movement like a chin-up, your lats are hit hardest by whatever allows the arm flexors to work as long as possible - when those fail, you stop chinning. So by putting your arm in the strongest position possible, you get maximum stimulation to your lats. It's simple. As far as a wide grip making your muscles (chest, back) wider, that's just not going to happen.

dude im talking about the difference between close grip and now stay with me are you ready "wide grip" (which is really not that wide, but I call it wide grip)

Now why do you think they have close grip and wide grip grips because they do perform different movements...but just do all close grips, be my guest...

enjoy

 

[Lord_Suston]

with close grip the first muscle to contract is your rhomboids as the rotate the scapula and bring them closer together to start the motion. Since the lats insert on the lesser tubercle of the humerus right by the bicippital groove and rotate the arm medially and pull the humerus toward the body the close grip is the easier one to do because of leverage and less range of motion under full load.....

 

[jstrong20]

It must be jerking off becuase I've noticed my right lat is conciderably bigger.

Seriously I think its a combination of heavy rows, deads, and pull ups. Lats are hard to hit so I use alot of exercises on back day.

 

[MarshallPenniford]

I'm not saying that the wider grip chins don't so anything, they simply don't acheive maximum lat stimulation.

 

[Lord_Suston]

I'm not saying that the wider grip chins don't so anything, they simply don't acheive maximum lat stimulation.

How do you figure this one??? I'm curious, because I thought the weakest musle in the motion being used is what fatigues first and inhibits the rest of the muscles. Like lets say chest, while benching you tris give out cause they are the weakest muscle you won't be able to get th weight up because your tris are fried and they are the determining muscle in the motion.

So in close grip pull-ups the determining muscle is either the rhomboids and bicepts.. in wide grip the angle on the bis is greatly reduced with less motion on the movement on the ulna and radius, which in turn creates more movement on the humerus where the lat attaches......Hence the lat will be worked more in the wide grip since the rate determining muscles have a greater advantage with leverage......

 

[HighIntensity]

How do you figure this one??? I'm curious, because I thought the weakest musle in the motion being used is what fatigues first and inhibits the rest of the muscles. Like lets say chest, while benching you tris give out cause they are the weakest muscle you won't be able to get th weight up because your tris are fried and they are the determining muscle in the motion.

So in close grip pull-ups the determining muscle is either the rhomboids and bicepts.. in wide grip the angle on the bis is greatly reduced with less motion on the movement on the ulna and radius, which in turn creates more movement on the humerus where the lat attaches......Hence the lat will be worked more in the wide grip since the rate determining muscles have a greater advantage with leverage......

I thinks its fair to say, case closed....

 

[Welsh power house]

Deadlifts, barbell rows and chins...regular wide grip...chin over the bar!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[b fold the truth]

Variation will give you the biggest gains.

I have always stuck with bar rows, dbell rows, and chins...I would sometimes substitute one out for something else...but not for long.

B True

 

[Hannibal]

If you want a thick back...ROW ROW ROW!! Chest supported work the best for me.