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Single arm lat pulldown cable machine.
Bring the thigh pad down onto your thighs so that you are secured into place.
Grasp the stirrup handle with one hand.
Hold for a count of two.
Not just isolation exercises but high quality exercises like lat pulldowns and seated rows.
The list of exercises and variations is endless.
Stand facing a cable stack with a straight bar attached to the high pulley.
Straight arm pulldown the defining difference.
Pulldown exercises are typically performed on a cable machine with both arms pulling a bar downward.
Like reverse grip pulldowns the straight arm version targets the lower lats.
This movement will work your lats scapula and upper traps.
This is like a mix of a pullover and a lat pulldown but to need a pulley to do this.
The only single arm lat pulldown equipment that you really need is the following.
Lat machines are not limited to just lateral pulldowns and cable rows.
Your arm and shoulder should be fully stretched upward.
There are however many different single arm lat pulldown variations that you can try out that may require different types of single arm lat pulldown equipment or may even require no equipment at all.
The pump it gives is incredible and the same can be said about its stretch.
Like the last exercise the best bar to use for this is the lat pulldown bar for more.
One of the few viable single joint back exercises straight arm pulldowns isolate the lats by removing virtually all biceps involvement.
Exhale as you slowly pull the stirrup down until your elbow is by the side of your body.
Straight arm scapula pulldown.
Sit on the lat pull down machine.
Many lifters find they can feel the lat latissimus dorsi muscles working better with single arm variations.
You engage more muscle fibers with single arm than double arm exercises so you can lift heavier weights and make greater strength gains.
Lat machine cable row.
By attaching a handle to a high pulley however you can do pulldowns with one arm at a time.
No gym or studio would be complete without a lat and seated row machine.