Obviously you perform exercises that work the lat’s such as pull ups (most preferable), chin ups, lat pulldowns, one arm rows and so forth. In order to maximise their effectiveness you need to focus on developing a mind-muscle connection with your lats to fully activate them.
You also need to correctly position yourself whilst performing the exercises so that the lats are the muscles that are the main muscle group being activated. If you have incorrect positioning you can end up using the wrong muscle groups and thus defeating the purpose of the exercise.
Unless to specifically target a certain muscle group - you end up just a bigger version fo what you were before.
But you CAN ‘bodysculpt’ to put more emphasis and development on one area.
I hear what people are saying - workout for a few years and then see.
I prefer to work on it as I go along is all.
Yes 7 workouts. But have worked out alot before in the past, jeez.
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Nobody is telling you to not work hard on your lats. It’s just that your lats aren’t the only thing that are under developed right now so you most likely will need to bring something else up after you’ve focused hard on just your lats. Why would you not put even emphasis on your whole body right now and come back for help if you have a genuine weak point that you need to specialise on?
Yes 7 workouts. But have worked out alot before in the past, jeez.
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You repeatedly bring up your training experience to validate your approach and justify giving out advice to others.
I’d like to ask you how much bigger than you are now were you at your best ever shape, and whether you’ve previously achieved this v taper you’re chasing?
I know the answer to the last part just from reading this thread. I just want you to take stock of where you are after years of sporadic training and realize that’s not experience of the positive kind.
Of course, if you’re way below your peak then I’d be wrong, but if that were true you wouldn’t have all these questions.
Yes 7 workouts. But have worked out alot before in the past, jeez.
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You repeatedly bring up your training experience to validate your approach and justify giving out advice to others.
I’d like to ask you how much bigger than you are now were you at your best ever shape, and whether you’ve previously achieved this v taper you’re chasing?
I know the answer to the last part just from reading this thread. I just want you to take stock of where you are after years of sporadic training and realize that’s not experience of the positive kind.
Of course, if you’re way below your peak then I’d be wrong, but if that were true you wouldn’t have all these questions.
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Muscle memory should mean that he will get a good V-taper within the next 7 workouts.
Followed the instructions to the tee for the deadstop dumbell rows at that link.
First time I have ever felt my whole lats sore as %^&* from rowing.
The best piece of advice is where he says, “row it up explosiovely and then ‘put it in your back pocket’.” meaning either the shoulder blade, really squeezed and then slid down as though you were sliding it into your back pocket, or maybe he means the dumbell, but both have the same effect of you really using your whole back right down to the bottom of the back.
My rear delts, and basically my whole back below the traps down to my waist are fcuking sore and I’m a little unnerved about how they’re gonna feel tomorow.
I know one thing - that is the first time I have ever hit my lats properly on rows. have had same feeling on pulldowns and deadlifts, but never that ‘worked whole back’ feeling on any rows, perhaps came close to it with t-bar rows.
I used to row and feel my upper back (rear delts, traps area) working and feel my back lower than that ‘kind of twisting’ but never that whole fucking lat squeeze you get from ‘sliding it into your back pocket.’
Man that was awesome advice. Didn’t actually do them all deadstop. Done warm up set with 18kg 4 x 8. Then 3 working sets with 50lb (my bloody gym has half the wieghts in kg and half in lb) 4 x 8 and at around rep 5 on each one i decided to do the ‘deadstop’ for the last 3 reps.
Anyway - wheelman13 - cheers! (Even though it’s gonna burn like hell tommorow…)