10-04-2008, 11:50 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Bulgaria. Posts: 2,754 Rep Power:  |  Re: Wide grip pull ups or Lat pulldowns??
These quotes are from 9Pack on UK-M. I no longer do Wide Grip Pullups having read these: Quote: |
The wider the grip, the less stretch is placed on the lats as the arms are not fully adducted towards the midline of the body. It can also be potentially very risky on the shoulders when performing very wide grip chins so please be careful bud, you may be storing up trouble for the future.
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I'm only going to say this one more time; wide grip does not automatically equate to wide lats. It's a complete fallacy. The wider the grip, the more danger you put the shoulder joint in and the less stretch you put the lats under at the midpoint. Period.
The lats have one major function, to draw the arms back. Rows, rows, rows, deadlifts & rows. Pulldowns are also good, but narrow to moderate grip is best. Now I don't care if Franco or anyone else for that matter did wide grip chins & had a good back. They would have most certainly done heavy rowing movements as the staple movement so their lats would have been good anyway.
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