Video: Lat Pull Down Exercise

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Working the back muscles, learn to do lat pull down exercises with dumbbells in this free home workout video from a certified personal trainer.

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Hi this is Rod Zervakos. ISSA Certified Personal Trainer. On behalf of Expert Village today we're going to be discussing a back exercise. In some of our other clips we've done the chest so now we're going to segway over to the back. And the first exercise we're going to do is going to be a lat pull down. So I'm going to take the bar and we're going to pull this straight down. We want to keep a nice symmetric motion coming all the way down. When we come down we're going to squeeze our shoulder blades together and really work this back muscle right here. It's called the lat muscle. So what we're going to do, again, put the weight on that you want. Slight lean backwards. Bring the bar straight down to the top of the chest and release. Straight down to the top of the chest and release. You're going to want to have a good pull on the way down and then a nice slow controlled motion putting it down. Nice pull back, slow controlled motion. Now what you want to make sure of when you're using equipment like this is that you have it lubed properly so that it's not ratchety. Goes up and down smoothly. Using the proper amount of weight. You want to at least be able to get 10 to 15 reps to build a nice foundation. Do a little bit less on the rep side if you want to build mass. But other than that, again, a nice controlled motion builds the wide part of the back.

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Lat Pull Down Exercise

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