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Featured Lats Article

Wingspan Workouts: 4 Shock Techniques To Widen Your Back! By: James Chan To help widen your lats, I'll provide you with 4 of the best shock techniques that I know to develop back width. These techniques are insanely difficult and painful, but you will reap tremendous size from them. Try them now... if you dare! 840 Words - Date Added: Apr 22, 2008

Anatomy And Exercises Main Page
By: Other Writer
Learn about the different muscles of the body and what exercises work them. Find out how to do them with our full guides! 141 Words - Date Added: Jan 05, 2001

Building Your LATS Through Proper Biomechanics
By: ISSA
Learn how to optimize your Latissimus Dorsi workout! Exercise and biomechanics guides now available. 1155 Words - Date Added: Apr 01, 2003

Building Your Upper Back
By: Todd Torns
If you're not scaring off running backs or shirt salesmen with the size of your neck, it's because you're working only the uppermost part of your trapezius muscles, which extend from your spine to each shoulder, across your upper back. 353 Words - Date Added: Mar 07, 2002

Effective Back Training: The Latissimus Dorsi.
By: ISSA
Back training has long been an area of controversy in strength training. Are you armed with the facts? In an effort to keep this article as simple and reader-friendly as possible, it will concentrate on the realm of the latissimus dorsi muscle, or the lats. 1103 Words - Date Added: Aug 25, 2003

Exercise Of The Week: Pull-ups.
By: Charles Ridgely
In this new section on Bodybuilding.com called Exercise Of The Week, we will pick one exercise and break it down into every possible way... 3161 Words - Date Added: Nov 03, 2004

Guide To A Better Back
By: Jon Huston
Back development is a key ingredient in the physique of a bodybuilder. This article will discuss my ideas pertaining to building the back in terms of width, thickness, and form. I will also include two sample programs. 847 Words - Date Added: May 28, 2002

Harmony of Structure & Function: The Lats!
By: Eric Satterwhite
For the past few years I have taken upon my self to learn as much as possible about the human body, both from a structural and a bio-chemical stand point. 2205 Words - Date Added: Jul 09, 2002

Herculean Back: The Advanced Lat Shocker
By: Alton Hare
That back, however, is especially well designed for supersetting, because the back is composed of several smaller muscle groups, which can all be stressed individually with only slight help from the other groups. 984 Words - Date Added: Mar 05, 2002

How To Get Wide Lats!
By: Critical Bench
Lat training is no different from the training of other body parts. Learn why the movements are not the problem, its the technique used, or in this case not used, and that presents the problem for most trainers. 1290 Words - Date Added: Feb 20, 2004

ICE Back Training
By: Big Cat
Nothing quite screams "I'm a bodybuilder" than a wide and impressively designed back. To me that is the epitomy of our sport. It shows that you have learned the hardest of the hard in creating a mind/muscle link to the back. 4449 Words - Date Added: Dec 21, 2001

Improving Chin-Up Performance!
By: Charles Poliquin
A chin-up specialization program will not only build impressive width and thickness to your back but will also pack solid inches on your arms by promoting growth on your biceps, brachialis, brachio-radialis and pronator teres. Learn how and why! 2148 Words - Date Added: Nov 11, 2003

Lats: Exercises, Anatomy And Tips!
By: Other Writer
Find out what exercises work best for your Lats! The smarter you are, the bigger you'll get! 699 Words - Date Added: Jan 15, 2001

The Shadow
By: Jason Bennett
That's what I want people to be thinking when I am onstage for my shows. I want to hit a front or rear lat spread and have people have to move their heads from side to side to see the whole thing, even the people in the back of the show. 1158 Words - Date Added: Dec 22, 2001

The Shadow II Back Routine
By: Jason Bennet
Let's get right down to the heart of this thing, 24 hours ago I was flexing in front of the mirror and pulled out a front lat spread and almost knocked the lamp off a table that was three feet away. 1031 Words - Date Added: Dec 21, 2001

Total Lat Training!
By: Jim Brewster
If you have ever wondered about how to train the lats then look no further. This article is 100% about training the lats. Bonus material includes a beginning to advanced program. 1602 Words - Date Added: Sep 07, 2005

Train Insane With Kane, Episode #29: Just Shoulders & Lats.
By: Kane Sumabat
Following a series of strict training-only segments in the show, the trend continues with Kane and Ascent81 mirroring each other in the gym with behind the back shrugs, upright rows with bands, followed by hammer high rows. Date Added: Sep 08, 2009

What Is The Most Effective Way To Build Your Lats?
By: Topic Of The Week
What is the most effective way to build your lats? Find out what other people from the message boards think... 5173 Words - Date Added: Dec 16, 2005

Wingspan Workouts: 4 Shock Techniques To Widen Your Back!
By: James Chan
To help widen your lats, I'll provide you with 4 of the best shock techniques that I know to develop back width. These techniques are insanely difficult and painful, but you will reap tremendous size from them. Try them now... if you dare! 840 Words - Date Added: Apr 22, 2008

Your First Pull-Up!
By: Jeremy Likness
How do I get strong enough to perform a full pull-up? Let's analyze the pull-up and create a plan of attack! 1081 Words - Date Added: Mar 25, 2004

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