Your lats or latissimus dorsi muscles are large triangular-shaped back muscles that get a serious workout with the lateral pulldown, hence the name. The lats are sometimes called the wing muscles you ...

• Targets the muscles of the upper arm and the lats, muscles below the shoulder blades. • Lie with front torso on top of ball, arms stretched straight toward floor, palms facing each other and holding ...

To build a wider, stronger back and achieve the coveted V-taper physique, targeting your lats is of the utmost importance. The latissimus dorsi, or lats, are the large muscles that span the middle and ...

Why: “This is a nice way to add lower back action to your back workout,” Samuel says. By rowing in a static bent-over position, your lower back muscles will work overtime to hold your torso at a ...

Lee Boyce is a Toronto-based strength coach who helps clients and athletes reach strength and conditioning, sports performance, and hypertrophy goals. In his new column, Basics Made Better, he'll help ...

More importantly, the lats are crucial for some of the most essential movements you'll make in both the gym and just about any other situation in your everyday life: pulling. From dumbbell rows to ...

There’s a particular type of exercise you should rely on to build a stronger back: rows. Fortunately, there’s no shortage of variations of this fundamental back exercise. The king of rows is the ...

What it does: The dumbbell bench press is a compound exercise that builds strength and size in your pectoral (chest) muscles.

If there is one dumbbell exercise that everyone does and probably does wrong, it is the single-arm dumbbell row. In fact, one could sit in a corner at a gym and take notes as people choose a weight, ...

Lee Boyce is a Toronto-based strength coach who helps clients and athletes reach strength and conditioning, sports performance, and hypertrophy goals. In his new column, Basics Made Better, he'll help ...