Try deadlifting with your hands together. Feel that strain on your lats? I'm thinkin...crazy lat workout..just focus on gliding the weight along your leg and you can feel it strain your lats as the weight tries to pull away from your body.
Make sure to focus mainly on the bottom portion of the lift, do not pull too far past the bent over row position, as that is when the weight shifts off of the lats as it is no longer needed to keep the weight from getting away from you as from that point on gravity is no longer pulling it away from you.
I hope that makes sense, because that is when your back is involved the most when you deadlift.
Give it a shot and let me know how you like it
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01-08-2013, 11:29 AM #1
Close grip deadlifts- Crazy lat workout?
Last edited by JBenuzzi; 01-08-2013 at 01:38 PM. Reason: *focus on bottom portion of lift important forgot to mention
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01-08-2013, 11:31 AM #2
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01-08-2013, 11:32 AM #3No brain, no gain.
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01-08-2013, 11:33 AM #4
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01-08-2013, 12:13 PM #7
This is an actual Lat exercise. Define your meaning of an 'actual exercise'..
Or are you so one dimensional that you think everything has to be done one way?
You must be a newbie, I understand.
When you deadlift, the lats are hit very hard to keep the weight near your body. When you use an even closer grip, it seems to enhance the effect even more so, I believe it may have something to do with what Retoaded said, you have to balance the bar even harder, so it's obviously going to hit the stabilizing muscles very hard.
It just so happens that the latsimus dorsi is a stabilizing muscle in the deadlift. So there you go. It is most definitely an 'actual exercise'.
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01-08-2013, 12:17 PM #8
There are 3 different variations of training the muscles my friend. There is positive, negative, and isometric. This would be an Isometric exercise to hit the lats even harder, and in a new way than you've ever tried obviously, so therefore would illicit many new gains if done correctly.
Another example of how well isometric exercise works is to take a look at how well the obliques are worked when you lift heavy. Many people don't want a thick waist because they want to look like Brad Pitt from fight club, so they skip deadlifts and squats . Thick waist = well developed external obliques.
Which everyone knows comes from lifting heavy.
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01-08-2013, 12:20 PM #9
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01-08-2013, 12:24 PM #10No brain, no gain.
"The fitness and nutrition world is a breeding ground for obsessive-compulsive behavior. The irony is that many of the things people worry about have no impact on results either way, and therefore aren't worth an ounce of concern."--Alan Aragon
Where the mind goes, the body follows.
Ironwill Gym:
https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showpost.php?p=629719403&postcount=3388
Ironwill2008 Journal:
https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=157459343&p=1145168733
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01-08-2013, 12:26 PM #11
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01-08-2013, 12:29 PM #12
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01-08-2013, 12:36 PM #14
Actually if you want your lats to do more stabilization, you should do snatch pull deadlifts (or wide grip deadlifts)
Narrow grip deadlifts will be putting more stress on the shoulder abductors mostly. In this group of muscles is the supraspinatus (which is a back muscle) so I can understand why you might confuse this with the lats.
Usually any time someone does an upper back workout they think "omg my lats!". However it is usually not a lat exercise. Evidence: most people on this board seem to think a dumbbell row is a lat exercise.
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01-08-2013, 12:40 PM #15
Thanks for clearing that up. But I guarantee you if you try it this way, while keeping it pinned against your body-which is key, you WILL feel your lats engaged.
Well, if you pull to your waist dumbbell rows certainly are a lat exercise. But I see how a lot of people could get confused pulling to their chest as a primary lat exercise.
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01-08-2013, 12:41 PM #16
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01-08-2013, 12:43 PM #17
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01-08-2013, 12:45 PM #19
I am deeply wounded by the blow delivered to me from your massive neg hammer, OP.
Why are all you skinny kids always so angry? Eat a sammich and lift something heavy once in a while, and maybe you can add a couple of pounds of muscle.
lighten up, francis.No brain, no gain.
"The fitness and nutrition world is a breeding ground for obsessive-compulsive behavior. The irony is that many of the things people worry about have no impact on results either way, and therefore aren't worth an ounce of concern."--Alan Aragon
Where the mind goes, the body follows.
Ironwill Gym:
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Ironwill2008 Journal:
https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=157459343&p=1145168733
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01-08-2013, 12:53 PM #20
I believe the angry one is you, because you are old and you never got as big as you wanted to be when you were younger. It helps to empower yourself by trying to belittle and bully your younger counterparts on an online forum, that's fairly clear.
Clearly the neg affected you, because you had your friend neg me back. But here's the thing - you deserved it. Your a rude person. I don't regret it at all. lol
At least I have the opportunity to become greater than you ever will be. I hope my gains make you sick.
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01-08-2013, 12:59 PM #23
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01-08-2013, 12:59 PM #24No brain, no gain.
"The fitness and nutrition world is a breeding ground for obsessive-compulsive behavior. The irony is that many of the things people worry about have no impact on results either way, and therefore aren't worth an ounce of concern."--Alan Aragon
Where the mind goes, the body follows.
Ironwill Gym:
https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showpost.php?p=629719403&postcount=3388
Ironwill2008 Journal:
https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=157459343&p=1145168733
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01-08-2013, 01:00 PM #25
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01-08-2013, 01:02 PM #26
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01-08-2013, 01:04 PM #27No brain, no gain.
"The fitness and nutrition world is a breeding ground for obsessive-compulsive behavior. The irony is that many of the things people worry about have no impact on results either way, and therefore aren't worth an ounce of concern."--Alan Aragon
Where the mind goes, the body follows.
Ironwill Gym:
https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showpost.php?p=629719403&postcount=3388
Ironwill2008 Journal:
https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=157459343&p=1145168733
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01-08-2013, 01:07 PM #28
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