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Title: Lat "isolation"
Post by: Donny on April 28, 2025, 07:03:35 AM
I have no access to Nautilus machines so i make do with a DB Pullover, I believe the Pullover is a great Lat builder



Title: Re: Lat "isolation"
Post by: LurkerNoMore on April 28, 2025, 07:09:56 AM
It's a great lat exercise.  However, I have never understood people who recommend it for chest.   ???
Title: Re: Lat "isolation"
Post by: Donny on April 28, 2025, 07:16:28 AM
It's a great lat exercise.  However, I have never understood people who recommend it for chest.   ???
me neither but they do the cross bench version..dropping the hips  ::)
Title: Re: Lat "isolation"
Post by: SF1900 on April 28, 2025, 07:44:38 AM
It’s one of those exercises that I never felt in my lats.

And I’m one of the bigger guys here.
Title: Re: Lat "isolation"
Post by: Donny on April 28, 2025, 07:52:10 AM
It’s one of those exercises that I never felt in my lats.

And I’m one of the bigger guys here.
Guess you must be bigger than Dorian  :D
Regardless..everyone has an opinion.
Title: Re: Lat "isolation"
Post by: Humble Narcissist on April 28, 2025, 08:46:47 AM
It's a great lat exercise.  However, I have never understood people who recommend it for chest.   ???
Oldtime bodybuilding courses taught that it thickened the ribcage especially when done right after 20 rep squats.
Title: Re: Lat "isolation"
Post by: SF1900 on April 28, 2025, 08:48:06 AM
Guess you must be bigger than Dorian  :D
Regardless..everyone has an opinion.

Slightly bigger than Dorian, but he has a better back than I do. But I have better everything else.
Title: Re: Lat "isolation"
Post by: Donny on April 28, 2025, 08:52:55 AM
Oldtime bodybuilding courses taught that it thickened the ribcage especially when done right after 20 rep squats.
yes they believed in the Stretch, the cartilage maybe up to a certain age.

Slightly bigger than Dorian, but he has a better back than I do. But I have better everything else.


haha..i´m sure you do but the Back is the topic
Title: Re: Lat "isolation"
Post by: IroNat on April 28, 2025, 08:54:22 AM
Flat bench pullovers do stimulate the chest because the pecs are contracted at the finish (dumbbell overhead).

The straight arm lat pulldown is basically a pullover.

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Title: Re: Lat "isolation"
Post by: Donny on April 28, 2025, 08:57:13 AM
Pullovers do stimulate the chest because the pecs are contracted at the finish.
so the range of motion is important, if you notice Dorian used a slightly shorter range of motion, but you know this i am sure buddy. ;)
Title: Re: Lat "isolation"
Post by: SF1900 on April 28, 2025, 08:58:09 AM
so the range of motion is important, if you notice Dorian used a slightly shorter range of motion, but you know this i am sure buddy. ;)

Interestingly enough, I do feel the straight arm lat pulldown, which kind of mimics a dumbbell pullover.
Title: Re: Lat "isolation"
Post by: Donny on April 28, 2025, 09:04:53 AM
Interestingly enough, I do feel the straight arm lat pulldown, which kind of mimics a dumbbell pullover.
yes it´s a lat exercise & has been used for many years to "isolate" the lats.
I love (as i have wrote before on the mature thread ) the pullover & press.. ala Rich Gaspari  :)
Title: Re: Lat "isolation"
Post by: Van_Bilderass on April 28, 2025, 09:11:18 AM
The db pullover is not very similar to the machine. To get closer to simulating a machine you'd need to attach a band to the bell. You ever do this Donny? The straight arm pulldown doesn't load the lats very well either compared to the machine and you tire your triceps a bunch. I used to do a lot of cross bench pullovers when young; I noticed I liked doing tricep extensions when in that position, nice therapeutic feeling stretch when dropping the hips, for more than just the tricep. Don't know if I'd dare do those hard today for fear of tearing a tricep :D

Title: Re: Lat "isolation"
Post by: SF1900 on April 28, 2025, 09:15:51 AM
yes it´s a lat exercise & has been used for many years to "isolate" the lats.
I love (as i have wrote before on the mature thread ) the pullover & press.. ala Rich Gaspari  :)

youre really confusing the muscle with the pullover and press.
Title: Re: Lat "isolation"
Post by: Donny on April 28, 2025, 09:21:36 AM
The db pullover is not very similar to the machine. To get closer to simulating a machine you'd need to attach a band to the bell. You ever do this Donny? The straight arm pulldown doesn't load the lats very well either compared to the machine and you tire your triceps a bunch. I used to do a lot of cross bench pullovers when young; I noticed I liked doing tricep extensions when in that position, nice therapeutic feeling stretch when dropping the hips, for more than just the tricep. Don't know if I'd dare do those hard today for fear of tearing a tricep :D


Great post..but i honestly feel my lats in the DB Pullover

youre really confusing the muscle with the pullover and press.
Best of both worlds  ;)
Title: Re: Lat "isolation"
Post by: Donny on April 28, 2025, 09:27:19 AM
i´ve posted this before but i liked Rich´s ripped up physique for his time.
was more a Tricep move

Title: Re: Lat "isolation"
Post by: joswift on April 28, 2025, 09:29:14 AM
The db pullover is not very similar to the machine. To get closer to simulating a machine you'd need to attach a band to the bell. You ever do this Donny? The straight arm pulldown doesn't load the lats very well either compared to the machine and you tire your triceps a bunch. I used to do a lot of cross bench pullovers when young; I noticed I liked doing tricep extensions when in that position, nice therapeutic feeling stretch when dropping the hips, for more than just the tricep. Don't know if I'd dare do those hard today for fear of tearing a tricep :D


exactly the same as a straight arm pulldown
Title: Re: Lat "isolation"
Post by: Van_Bilderass on April 28, 2025, 09:35:16 AM
exactly the same as a straight arm pulldown

I think the bench adds stability which is key to be able to generate maximum force, so this is probably better. In the pulldown your abs probably get the most stimulation :D
Title: Re: Lat "isolation"
Post by: joswift on April 28, 2025, 09:38:07 AM
I think the bench adds stability which is key to be able to generate maximum force, so this is probably better. In the pulldown your abs probably get the most stimulation :D

good point, it is a great core exercise
Title: Re: Lat "isolation"
Post by: Methyl m1ke on April 28, 2025, 03:20:43 PM
The db pullover is not very similar to the machine. To get closer to simulating a machine you'd need to attach a band to the bell. You ever do this Donny? The straight arm pulldown doesn't load the lats very well either compared to the machine and you tire your triceps a bunch. I used to do a lot of cross bench pullovers when young; I noticed I liked doing tricep extensions when in that position, nice therapeutic feeling stretch when dropping the hips, for more than just the tricep. Don't know if I'd dare do those hard today for fear of tearing a tricep :D



I have always done them lying across the bench hips below the bench with either someone standing on my feet or a pair of 100s i can anchor my feet under. Your lats are really strong and the best way to stimulate them is with a heavy dumbell. I worked up to 6 with 130 at my peak. It does also put your shoulder in an awkward position
Title: Re: Lat "isolation"
Post by: Dave D on April 28, 2025, 06:32:03 PM
Interestingly enough, I do feel the straight arm lat pulldown, which kind of mimics a dumbbell pullover.

I second this. I don’t like the db pullover but I do feel the pulldown version.
Title: Re: Lat "isolation"
Post by: Van_Bilderass on April 29, 2025, 01:41:41 AM
I have always done them lying across the bench hips below the bench with either someone standing on my feet or a pair of 100s i can anchor my feet under. Your lats are really strong and the best way to stimulate them is with a heavy dumbell. I worked up to 6 with 130 at my peak. It does also put your shoulder in an awkward position

I absolutely loved the cross bench pullovers, about 30 years ago lol, I remember Nasser doing them with a 200 bell in flex mag. First I would take a deep breath and hold it, drop the hips as much as possible, then descend into absolute max stretch. Only release the air at the top and go again. We only had dbs up to 100 and I think I was up to 30 such reps. Problem is, I later realized, I would eventually tear a tri doing them because I always wanted more weight plus I suspected they also might have to do with the umbilical hernia I developed way back in 1998 already :'( :D
Maybe 3-4 years ago I was finally at a gym with a plate loaded pullover and was humbled, two training partners were tripling my reps, one a natural, and I was the one training it the most, wtf :'(
Title: Re: Lat "isolation"
Post by: Donny on April 29, 2025, 01:59:26 AM
don´t see these often...Barbell Pullovers

Title: Re: Lat "isolation"
Post by: Van_Bilderass on April 29, 2025, 02:15:16 PM
don´t see these often...Barbell Pullovers

Never did those, looks like a crazy ab, hip flexor, even isometric quad exercise :D
Title: Re: Lat "isolation"
Post by: funk51 on April 30, 2025, 07:57:19 AM
   
   Remember when they were selling the isolators ?   also years back the old 20 rep squat followed by a set of 20  pullovers on a moon bench of course. ;D
Title: Re: Lat "isolation"
Post by: snx on April 30, 2025, 12:36:07 PM
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I really liked this one on the topic. Yes it’s extraordinarily long, lots of physiology and moment arms and mechanics so don’t watch unless you have lots of free time.

TLDW; for the DB pullover these gents conclude it’s both a chest and back exercise, with a stronger emphasis on the teres major relative to the Lats due to the fact that the shoulder cannot elevate and depress against resistance when the Lats experience a mechanically advantaged position. But it will still hit Lats to an extent. And also chest at the full stretch position. Great for teres major though as that muscle bullies the move during shoulder extention as that happens with glenohumueral joint in a fixed position and unable to travel during the move.

Title: Re: Lat "isolation"
Post by: Van_Bilderass on April 30, 2025, 01:42:38 PM
I never thought pullovers hit chest at all, but I can easily concede the point though I didn't watch the vid snx posted.
Title: Re: Lat "isolation"
Post by: mops on April 30, 2025, 05:20:18 PM
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Title: Re: Lat "isolation"
Post by: snx on April 30, 2025, 05:52:17 PM
I never thought pullovers hit chest at all, but I can easily concede the point though I didn't watch the vid snx posted.

VanB my dude;

I would agree that pullovers don’t “hit the chest” as bodybuilders think. A pullover is not going to replicate a dip or a cable crossover for targeting lower pec fibers in the costal head. But, the pullover we must concede does hit the lower pecs “a bit” at the fully stretched spot (arms farthest behind head) due to the pecs having mechanical advantage at full stretch in that spot (as opposed to Lats, who have a bit of leverage but kick farther into overdrive when the arms reach just near the top of the head). So the DB pullover is a red headed stepchild. It does hit pecs, but it sucks as a pec movement. It does hit Lats, but it pales in comparison to a standard pull-down/up or lat biased row. But, it does have a home in a program; if you gave me only one exercise for a time starved trainee to hit chest and shoulder extension, the DB pullover might just rank supreme. We might say someone who has time for only one exercise is not serious, but we’ve all been the time starved bodybuilder at one time or another. To each his own.

By the way, love your posts in general.
Title: Re: Lat "isolation"
Post by: Donny on May 01, 2025, 02:39:57 AM
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I really liked this one on the topic. Yes it’s extraordinarily long, lots of physiology and moment arms and mechanics so don’t watch unless you have lots of free time.

TLDW; for the DB pullover these gents conclude it’s both a chest and back exercise, with a stronger emphasis on the teres major relative to the Lats due to the fact that the shoulder cannot elevate and depress against resistance when the Lats experience a mechanically advantaged position. But it will still hit Lats to an extent. And also chest at the full stretch position. Great for teres major though as that muscle bullies the move during shoulder extention as that happens with glenohumueral joint in a fixed position and unable to travel during the move.

the Oldtimers as you no doubt know did pullovers & 20 rep squats ... expanding the rib cage & all that jazz .. might be possible as a young guy up to a certain age as the cartilage is soft but later on...nah..

https://thebarbell.com/rib-cage-expansion/