Lat Pulldown (Machine)
Trains the lats. You need a machine. None of our programs use it yet, but you can add it to any session you build.
Free to use. The app works out every weight and times your rest.
In the programs
None of our programs use the Lat Pulldown (Machine)
It is in the app, so you can add it to any session and log it like anything else. It is just not written into one of our 50 free programs. If you want a lats exercise that is, there are 7 on the Lats page.
Muscles worked
What Lat Pulldown (Machine) trains
Technique
How to do the Lat Pulldown (Machine)
- Sit at the lat pulldown machine with your thighs secured under the pads and your feet flat on the floor. Reach up and grasp the bar with an overhand grip, hands wider than shoulder-width apart.
- Keeping your chest up and torso upright with a slight backward lean, pull the bar down to your upper chest by driving your elbows down and back.
- Squeeze your shoulder blades together at the bottom of the movement.
- Slowly let the bar rise back up until your arms are fully extended. Repeat for the desired number of repetitions.
Form cues
Getting it right
- Avoid leaning back excessively or using momentum to pull the bar down.
- Focus on pulling with your lats and elbows rather than your hands and forearms.
- Exhale as you pull the bar down and inhale as you return it up.
- Control the bar on the way up; do not let the weight stack yank your arms.
Substitutes
Swap Lat Pulldown (Machine) for
The app's swap picker ranks these the same way: same muscles, similar movement, similar equipment.
Let the app run the Lat Pulldown (Machine) for you
Durata picks the weight, times your rest and adds load when you earn it. That works on any of our 50 free programs, or on a session you put together yourself.