Lateral Pull Downs Exercises for Increasing Back Strength

Video Transcript

"The next exercise I’m going to demonstrate for you is called a lat pull down. The seat is already adjusted, so there’s no need to adjust the seat. Before you grab the handlebars, you want to make sure that you take a seat and adjust the leg pad. So if it’s too low or too high, you want to pull the knob out, place your feet flat on the floor, make sure that the pad is touching your legs and lock it in to wherever is comfortable for you. Then you’re going to stand up, grabbing a hold of the bar, making sure that your hands are in the same place on each side. You can tell if your hands are in the same place on each side because of the little silver lines on the bar, so place your pinkies on both silver lines and then wrap the rest of the fingers around the bar. If you want a wider grip, you can put your pointer finger on the silver line and wrap the rest of the fingers around the bar. Go ahead and take a seat while the weight is in your hands. Feet are flat on the floor, navel to spine; slightly tilt back in a diagonal angle, head, neck and back in one line and exhale as you pull the bar toward your chest, squeezing your shoulder blades together and inhale. Exhale and inhale, perfect and inhale and exhale and inhale, very good. "