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Strength exercises Β· Upper body
Lat pulldown
Difficulty Pull-ups and pulldowns
How to perform it
Seated pull of the high cable down to the chest. Targets the back (lats), assisted by the biceps, rhomboids and rear delts. A pull-up substitute with scalable load, good for building back strength progressively.
Equipment
- Lat pulldown machine / Cable machineMachine
Muscles worked
Front
Back
Muscles and artwork credits
- Biceps
- Brachialis (not on the surface map)
- Lats
- Mid and lower traps
- Rear delts
- Rhomboids (not on the surface map)
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Pull-ups and pulldowns
Exercise family Β· pattern: Pull-ups and pulldowns
1 family Β· 7 variationsDifficulty
- Lat pulldownCurrently viewing
- Banded chin-up
- Banded pull-up
- Chin-up
- Neutral grip pull-up
- Pull-up
- Rope pull-up
Difficulty describes how demanding the execution is. It is not a recommended training order.