Dynamic Back Stretch

Muscles worked

The muscle under tension is the latissimus dorsi, which pulls the upper arm down and back toward the ribcage.

A stretch loads it at the far end of the range it normally works in, so the position you hold is itself the resistance.

Every exercise for:Lats

How this movement works

Force comes toward the body — you draw a limb, or your own bodyweight, in against whatever resists it. What changes between sessions is how far into the position you can get and hold, not how much is loading it.

It is filed under stretching, so the target is range of motion rather than force — a position you can settle into and breathe in, held long enough for the tissue to give.

What you need

These train the lats too, using equipment this one does not:

• Elevated Cable Rowscable
• Latissimus Dorsi-SMRfoam roll
• Leverage Iso Rowmachine
• Narrow Parallel Grip Chin-upsbarbell + body only
• Overhead Slammedicine ball

Difficulty

Listed at beginner level: the pattern is simple enough to pick up without coaching, and a position that goes wrong mid-set is obvious enough to correct on the next repetition.

Of the 45 lats exercises in this database, 23 are listed at beginner level.