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Wide-grip Pulldown

Description

  1. Starting position:

    • Arms extended overhead, feeling a stretch in your lats.
    • Keep your shoulders depressed (don’t shrug upward).
  2. Pulling phase (concentric):

    • Pull the bar down to your upper chest or collarbone area by driving your elbows down and back.
    • Keep your chest lifted and squeeze your shoulder blades together at the bottom.

Muscles

Front
Back

Primary muscles

  • Lats

Secondary muscles

  • Front deltoid
  • Brachialis
  • Serratus anterior
  • Trapezius

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Description and images from the open wger exercise database, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (authors: Konsumopfer, tuckerm, wger.de, aom44ja6w@mozmail.com, jptjptjptjpt). Translations by Calix are shared under the same license. Muscle diagrams: wger project (AGPL-3.0).