Anyone else have a hard time hitting their lats

>>41322884
do (full range of motion)chinups and actively pull yourself with lats

>>41322884
nope.

Go lighter on the DB rows and do them sloooooowwwwww

i find them pretty easy to hit OP

maybe you're just too light to get a good training effect from unweighted pullups/chinups

>>41322884
lat pulldowns hit mine harder than chins ever did

i pretty much gave up on chins in favour of using pulldowns for all my vert pull progression. tried a set of pull ups earlier today and hit 28. the whole "have to train them to be functional etc." is bollocks

try doing easier exercises first to build up straight and grip
try reading this post i found it helpful
https://boxofhealth.net/2017/04/29/best-body-weight-exercises/

>>41322884
>36 pull ups
The fuck? That's literally cardio. Do heavy weighted chins or pulls, no more than 8 reps in a set. Finish up with heavy lat pulldowns.

It's because you are doing your pullups wrong. I see people doing that shit all the time

Pull with your ELLBOW and do it slowly. That way it's guaranteed for you to do the right form automatically.

Lat's are not hard to hit, it's just that people don't really understand the anatomy of the human body well enough to do it spontaneously and impulsively

>>41324522
Chins are for biceps though? Never heard someone doing chins for lats

>>41324627

Not the guy you are quoting but like i said in the post prior to yours, it's all about the execution

Pullups, chinups and rows are ALL either for biceps or for the back. It just depends on how you execute them

Pull with arms --> biceps
Pull with elbow --> back

That's why many can't do a single pullup. Nobody knows how to workout properly

>>41322884
I find my lats to be more engaged (soreness felt) when doing close grip than wide grip. Also after switching to close grip, I see massive change in 2 months

Also swimming

>>41324677
I think it has something to do with my lats insertion being quite high and close to the underarm. If you watch that one Athlean-x video about muscle fibres and how different workouts work them based on angle of movement etc. you can imagine what I mean

Squeeze your shoulder blades together at the peak of the movement.
Concentrate on the mind-muscle connection and the feeling of your back actually opening on closing. It might sound dumb, but it's usually helpful to think about that stuff when you're having a hard time targeting a particular muscle.

Other lanklets have problems with that too?

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what you feel (pump/doms/whatever) isnt indicative of how hard a muscle is being used. used actual improvements in strength and size as an indicator instead

>>41324660
basic understanding of human anatomy tells us that:

1. elbow flexion cannot happen without the biceps contracting
2. your humerus rotating downward (as it does in a chin-up, pullup, pulldown, or pullover) cannot happen without the lats contracting

if you can't do a single pullup, it's because you're a fat weak fuck, not because you don't know how to activate your lateral almonds

>>41322884
Do some weighted pull ups you god damn pussy puss
You're probably a skinny fag whose bodyweight not enough to create the stimulus needed for the muscle growth.
Pick a weight heavy enough for u to do 5x5 and repeat, use bw pull ups to burnout afterwards.