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If you ever said that you never feel your back workout in your lats or never have sore lats after training them, this video is for you. See how to get muscle soreness in your lats by training them with heavy eccentrics and applying tension to the muscles during maximum lengthening in this small 6 minute sample workout routine for back.
Many people will say that they have a hard time getting certain muscles sore when they train them. They equate soreness to the effectiveness of the workout and reason that if they don’t feel sore the next day then they didn’t get a good workout in. That is not necessarily true. In fact, if you were training for strength it would be completely irrelevant. That said, one of the known stimulus for muscle growth is eccentric tension and overload.
Here I will show you a quick 6 minute routine that you can do at the end of your back workout or as the only thing you do in your lat training if you want to prove to yourself the effectiveness of the method. Putting the science back in strength as we always do to utilize the anatomy of the lats to our advantage as we select specific back exercises to execute these techniques on.
As you will see, certain back and lat exercises are better than others for applying the loaded eccentric technique. If you were to choose the wrong exercise you would either not have enough tension during the time you had a good stretch or you would have too much tension but in a position that didn’t make it safe to have it without jeopardizing the safety of the lift.
In this 6 minute back routine you are going to perform just 3 exercises. The first is a lat pulldown done with your elbows in front of your body while still using an overhand grip. This places more stretch on the lats as it is similar to the positioning of the arms during a chinup except with the opposite grip. As you raise the bar back up after each rep try and let your arms travel forward as you protract your scapula. This will accentuate the stretch on your lats greatly and place much more tension on them eccentrically provided you keep each rep slow.
Move onto the dumbbell pullover. Apply the stretch to the lats by dropping the pelvis down towards the floor before performing the 21 style rep scheme shown. Each of these should be performed using your 12RM with a 4 second per rep cadence. Move onto the last back exercise in the routine called the rotational high row. There is an added tweak to the way you do this to ensure separation of the lats and stretch under load. Do one minute on each arm and then finish up with one more minute of the first two exercises for a total of 6 minutes.
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46 comments
I got sore in 2 minutes. clickbait title
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Funny, because he is so buff it actually helps me see what it is he is doing
The exercise at 3:45 hurts my shoulder…
And what to do with the soreness a day or two after training? Train over it, or wait until it went away before I train again?
Hey Jeff, thanks for the helpful videos quick question for the last workout are your feet planted or do they move
Calisthenics guys for that gorilla back
Nice
Bro your skin shine was in looking different but very very nice.
Why I am having small kidy skin I don't know.pls help me Iwant to shine like you bro
My back is sore in zero minutes. ….. Where did I leave the remote?
For the rotational high row, can you describe an optimal position for your legs, since it was not shown? Maybe this part is not critical?
Every one knows Raymond
Looked good until the second exercise which could end in a dumbbell to the face and a broken neck (death)
Legend
My shoulders hurt when i do a lat pullover someone please help!
Anyone in 2020 ?📣
Everybody Loves Raymond.
Jeff is a Genius
I did the same workout routine for a week then after the next week I did the same workout but when I try to workout I felt like my wings were gonna break apart, now I kinda feel that doing the same workout is destroying my back. Should I change my workout routine or do I need to do some stretching.
I’d love these videos more if they were real time. Working out with us
Hi Jeff. Any chance you can create a video to help with chronic Terres major/ minor pain? Kind of like your plantar fasciitis video? Probably due to many years of computer work but getting a bit desperate.
Would love it if you could do your explanation and say “workout starts at ….”whatever time the workout starts. My personal opinion….It’s not helpful to have you talking and then doing a set and talking and then doing an exercise. The best videos are the ones where the presenter does the workout with the viewer. I have to keep fast forwarding.
Alternative for the high row?
I need back fat and muscle to develop would like to know best excercise to do home and also for transverse abdominis as I have tried everything and my tummy still sticks out
easily one of his best videos. extremely informative.
I'm so weak 🙁
Hi Jeff, I had a sports injury 4 years ago where I popped 2 thoracic discs and since then my whole left back side has started weakening significantly.
Are there any exercises you could suggest to strengthen that side ?
Thank you
But I feel sore in my forearms
Raymond is not natty
Jeff can you shoot a video explaining the two versions of the dumbbell pullover? You recommend it for the chest and lats
Would so much prefer you just take us through a workout
JEFF : in 6mins
Me : you forgot 58 SECONDS
I started sore in 5 minutes lol
Excellent Physiotherapist Perfect Trainer Fantastic Athlete
Nice video 🌹🌹🌹👌❤🌷❣️💖
Jeff u r awesome😎😎😎
Raymond's arm fell off lol
4:09 Porn training
Please show foot position during rotational high row.
Would love to see and learn some really good forearm workouts
Best video i am try this video in my workout routine ..plz try this
It really works! Great and simple set.
Jeff you are the best in this niche, no doubt about it (just wanted to say that). Now regarding this video, can you please make an updated version? Thanks!
Muscle soreness has nothing to do with performance enhancement or hypertrophy, in terms of causing it… xD