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
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 ...
