How To Do A Lat Pulldown With Tubing Video

Lat pulldowns will work the back and if done properly can also work the abdominal muscles as well. Learn how to use resistance bands to do lat pulldowns from a certified personal fitness trainer in this exercise video.

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Combination lat & row
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Amy McCauley has been a certified personal fitness trainer since 1995. She specializes in pilates, combat cardio, core conditioning and overall strength training. She works with clients ranging in age from 16 - 69. She has worked at Gold's Gym in Wilmington, NC since 2006. She loves her job because it gives her the opportunity to change peoples' lives in a positive way.

Hi. I'm going to show you how to do a lat pulldown if you're at your house as opposed to the gym. We're going to have exercise tubing. This is a yellow colored band, which is actually your light resistance. We've also have a green band which is medium resistance and red band, which is more challenging, which is your heavy resistance. So I'm going to show you the green band today. I'm going to sit on the stability ball just for support. You can also use a chair or actually, you don't have to use anything at all if you don't want to, but this is going to help us get into our motion. Make sure that the band is secure up top, you're going to take your elbows out and all we're going to do lean back just a little bit so that we're in our motion. So that from your shoulders to your hip are actually at a slant and you're not straight up and down with your body. So lean back into it just a little bit, we're opening out, squeezing the shoulder blades down the spine, all the way back, almost bringing the thumbs to your shoulders, and then extension comes up. We want to keep the resistance here as opposed to letting the shoulder round out and let go of the tension. So apply the pressure, pull back and engage. We're going to do this. This is a compound exercise, so we do lats and traps, dropping down into a row. So our combination is going to go lat and row. When you're doing your lats, your elbow's open wide, when you're doing your row, the elbows brush the ribcage. If this is too easy for you, you go up to a red band, this is going to add a little bit more resistance, and pull. If that's still easy for you, double up your bands and do both at the same time. So now we're got a really heavy load as we're working through those muscles. We want to do reps to fatigue on this one, if you've just started it's going to be about eight to 12 repetitions. If you've been working out for a while, really try to fail those muscle groups. So your goal is to really pull those shoulders back, so we're working deep into your lats. The lats looks like a triangle upside down, so we're trying to get all the way down to the lower portion of your back, we're even trying to get up into your trap area. So as you're pulling back, engage the muscles and then release it. sit up really tall and then lean back so that you've got your abs engaged the whole time, and that is how we do our lat pulldown into a row combination, using a stability ball or a chair, or actually standing up and doing this, if you don't have anything to sit on. Either way will work.

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