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Lat Pulldowns Revisited: What's the "Optimal" Grip Width? A Medium Grip Excels - In Spite or Due to the Increased Biceps Activation? Plus: Harder ≠ More Effective

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Building Wings: Is it really about proper grip width or are effort and genetics the real determinants of your wing-size? As a SuppVersity reader you will be well aware that the term "optimal" in conjunction with grip width will always be goal-specific. It is, for example, well possible that you would have to use completely different grips to "optimally" train the posterior chain of the rotator cuff muscle and your lats and the  results Vidar Andersen and his colleagues from the Sogn og Fjordane University College , the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and the Hysnes Rehabilitation Center at the St. Olavs University Hospital present in their latest paper in the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research could help us to find out which grip widths these are (Andersen. 2014). While the researchers point out, "the effects of pronated grip widths in the anterior lat pull down are not yet fully determined" (Andersen. 2014), Suppversity ...
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SuppVersity EMG Series - Latissimus, Trapezius & More: The Very Best Exercises for Back Width & Thickness

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Image 1: The major muscle groups of the back - trapezius (red) and latissimus dorsi (green) In this issue of the SuppVersity EMG Series, we are going to tackle three instead of one muscle groups, ... the trapezius (image 1, red) and the rhomboidei (image 1, blue), of which the former, i.e. the " traps ", which covers the rhomboids that connect the scapula with the vertebrae of the spinal column, is often erroneously associated with the musculature of the neck; in effect, the m. trapezius extends longitudinally from the occipital bone to the lower thoracic vertebrae and laterally to the spine of the scapula and is thus responsible for what pro-bodybuilders often refer to as back thickness and ... the latissimus dorsi (image 1, green), which literally is the 'broadest muscle of the back' and thus responsible for back width . The reasons we will be addressing back width and thickness in a single issue are twofold: Firstly, you need to train al...
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