Training Back for Width

[Sam]

Originally Posted by XiL3

But isn't the latissimus dorsi one muscle afterall? Doesn't going wider just shift the emphasis more towards the lats and less on the biceps? I've always thought of wide-grips just being better as a lat workout in general, but not specifically targetting an area of the lats...unless the upper happens to be stubborn. I do my pullups fairly close and I usually get sore at the upper.

Originally Posted by 1quick1

I don't know about you guys but the more I've done close to the body rows/pullups the more my lats have progressed. stuff like DB rows and narrow grip pullups.

Sorry - i missed this. I actually don't know about targetting a specific area of the lats - im just going to try mixing things up a bit because before i did lots and lots of CG stuff, and havent really been that impressed with my lat growth the same as everything else, so at the moment im doing lots of WG stuff, but i'll probably tone it down a bit in a month or so.

The funny thing is; i don't ever get sore lats after training. They're sore and fatigued when im training, sure, but not the following day ever. S' really weird.

[oval61251]

Originally Posted by Sam

Sorry - i missed this. I actually don't know about targetting a specific area of the lats - im just going to try mixing things up a bit because before i did lots and lots of CG stuff, and havent really been that impressed with my lat growth the same as everything else, so at the moment im doing lots of WG stuff, but i'll probably tone it down a bit in a month or so.

The funny thing is; i don't ever get sore lats after training. They're sore and fatigued when im training, sure, but not the following day ever. S' really weird.

I am the same way i dont get it.

[Critical Mass]

Me too.....However, when I recently did a set of pullups while hanging 90 lbs. I was sore for a while and couldn't train back for a week and a half.

[oval61251]

shoulders are the same way for me aswell