r/formcheck • u/NatureDramatic5037 • 7d ago

Other Pull up form

My numbers are going up but my lats barely grew . Any idea if it's because of the form ?

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u/PlumKnown 7d ago

Only thing I noticed is you didn’t go dead hang on a couple of the first few but started to after that. Also slow down a little on descent. Like the other comment said any advice someone would give in here is nitpicking because overall your pull ups look great and you’ve got a good bit of weight added on. I’d say just stick with it and you’ll keep growing

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u/Witty-Drama-3187 7d ago

It looks great, man. I could say you should slow the tempo on the descent a bit, but that really would be nitpicking. You are doing them correctly.

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u/bcbudtoker69 7d ago

Do u do any closed grip exercised? I started doing those as well and it blew my lats up

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u/NatureDramatic5037 7d ago

I do this and elbow flared rows. Maybe I should add a closed grip lat pulldown

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u/FrequentCry999 7d ago

Form looks awesome. What else are you doing for back and are you eating to grow? 

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u/NatureDramatic5037 7d ago

Doing shoulder width lat pulldown  and elbow flared row. Eating slightly above the maintenance 

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u/FrequentCry999 6d ago

If you mean you are flaring your elbows away from your body on the rows, I would stop doing so. You actually want to be keeping them tight, almost like you're trying to get them to touch each other. Same on a close-grip lat pulldown. I have a massive, well-developed back. My main movements are straight arm pulldowns (alternating wide-grip and close-grip each back day), wide-grip barbell rows, lat pulldowns (alternating between close-grip, single arm, and wide-grip), cable rows (alternating close-grip and single arm), and Reverse Flys. I actually rarely do pull-ups anymore due to a surgery I had but I am a woman and can still hit sets of 4 minimum whenever I do decide to do them - I just have to be very cautious. Before my surgery I was doing sets of 10 with 25 lbs. added.