Close-Grip Front Lat Pulldown

Back · Cable

How to do it

Close neutral grip (V handle) and a slight lean back, no more than 15 degrees. Pull the handle to your sternum driving the elbows close to your body and back. The close grip gives more elbow travel and therefore more lat range. You feel the lower lat. The classic mistake is pulling with the biceps: think about driving the elbows into your back pockets.

Variants

The drawing shows one way of doing it, and the technique above describes that one. Almost every exercise has variants — standing or seated, the grip, the bench angle — and is still the same exercise: if you do it another way, write it in the exercise note and you will have it every time you train it.

Also works: Biceps

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