TO FORGE A balanced physique, training your back muscles will be absolutely essential. One of the most consequential of your back muscles will be your lats—and there are plenty of lat-focused ...

You may think you need a gym full of fancy kit to build a bigger, stronger back that’s the shape of a Dorito – you don’t. With the right exercises and a few pieces of basic home gym equipment, you can ...

This is one of the most fundamental dumbbell exercises for the lats, says TJ Mentus, a certified personal trainer. “The lats work to pull the elbows into the sides and keep the shoulders back,” he ...

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 are so many muscle groups to keep track of and hit during your workout routine, but your lats (a.k.a. latissimus dorsi) shouldn't get left out. You probably don't see them on the reg, but you ...

The latissimus dorsi (lat) is a triangle-shaped muscle on each side of our backs that runs from just below the shoulder blade down the spine to the pelvis and connects to the upper arm. Your lats are ...

What Is a Lat Pulldown? The lat pulldown is an upper-body exercise that focuses on the muscles of your back. Much like the squat and bench press, it’s considered a compound exercise — meaning that it ...

Strength coach and Athlean-X founder Jeff Cavaliere C.S.C.S. helps people train smarter by sharing how the most effective, "essential" exercises they should be performing in order to build strength ...

Following on from his videos in which he shared his personal lists of the very best and worst chest, shoulder and ab exercises, strength coach and Athlean-X founder Jeff Cavaliere C.S.C.S. has just ...

Bodybuilding veteran Lee Priest broke down how to feel the lats during back training by focusing on the quality of each ...

Gym equipment was never designed for just one type of exercise, even if, over time, certain machines started getting associated with individual exercises. For example, the Smith machine with squats, ...