Pilates Lat Pull Exercise

Video Transcript

"All right. Now let's work on a lat pull from all fours. Make sure you stay engaged for all the movement. Now if you were doing a lat pull at a universal or working with weights, it would be very easy to know where the lat pull is. Your elbow stays in alignment. It's not so easy when you're doing it from all fours. Setting it up, inhale and exhale. Glutial squeeze, working through that walnut cracking. You're going to take the arm out, and it's going to move kind of like an angel wing, moving out from the side, reaching forward. If you were taking something and holding it, that's what we should focus on. And pull it back, so that you're doing a lat pull. Your elbow and your hand should be on the same plane. That's not the same plane, and that is not the same plane. Make sure you're reaching, pulling wide, going to the plane, and reaching forward, staying engaged with the lower glutes. So you're going to reach and pull. Arm comes out, again, wide, sweeping wide. Reach and pull back. If you're not feeling this, you are not doing it right. Make sure that your elbow and your wrist are on the same plane. Extend it out before you reach and pull back. And that is how you do a lat pull from all fours."