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Full Range-Of-Motion Lat Pulldown

How to do the Full Range-Of-Motion Lat Pulldown with correct form, the muscles it works, and where it fits a training plan you actually stick to.

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Primary muscles

Lats

Secondary

Biceps, Mid Back, Shoulders

Equipment

Cable

Step by step

How to do the Full Range-Of-Motion Lat Pulldown

  1. 1

    Either standing or seated on a high bench, grasp two stirrup cables that are attached to the high pulleys. Grab with the opposing hand so your arms are crisscrossed about you and your palms are facing forward.

  2. 2

    Keeping your chest up and maintaining a slight arch in your lower back, pull the handles down as if you were doing a regular pulldown. The range of motion will be more of an arc. During the movement, rotate your hands so that in the bottom position your palms face each other rather than forward. Return slowly to the starting position and repeat.

In Ascend

Log it, see it on your body.

Every Full Range-Of-Motion Lat Pulldown set you log feeds Ascend's anatomy heatmap — so your lats volume is visible at a glance — and counts toward your bodyweight-strength tier.

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