Letting your shoulders come up at the very end is full range of motion and actually stretches your lats at the top. It also allows your lower traps to be worked significantly more since you have to pull your shoulders back down to do the next rep. It's just a variation

Releasing your shoulders allows full stretch of the lats which is pretty much the most important fact in building muscle

That second one is full rom maximum stretch of the lats. Constant tension and maximum retraction and contraction are two completely different things.

Nothing wrong with your shoulders going high. Plus the tension wouldn’t really “go away” considering you’re using a cable machine. Hope that helps

A slight lean back will also get more engagement and ROM

“ dropping your shoulders UP, like this. “

Such an educational video! Great stuff Hanna thanks for the useful tips. One of the biggest things that have helped me build muscle aside from spending time in the gym has been a custom meal plan from Next Level Diet. I use it every week and I love it!

but if he's a big dude, how could it be doing it wrong? you know... he's big. It's working

Waiiiit this makes more sense now I was dropping my shoulders because I thought that would give me full range of motion

Perfect explanation, I hope others use this. Game changer for me personally. Chest up, imagine you pull with your elbows

Thanks for the excellent advice. This is a mistake I've been making. Thanks to this video I've corrected my mistake. Keep up the good work.

finally someone explaining it smoothly thanks

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As long as your going to the gym repetitively, don’t let the content criticizers deter you from working 💪🏾🙌🏾

Excellent. So many people don’t actually engage the lats at the top. They seem to think that the exercise does it for them!

Most helpful video I’ve seen!!

Very Helpful! I for sure have been releasing my shoulders in previous workouts...

I actually just halfed my dumbell weight on my arm curls so I can preserve form. Helps against injuries too.

Thank you so much for breaking this down in so much detail, you've just got a new subscriber thank you again

Thanks been avoiding this excercise because i was afraid of doing it wrong 😢🎉

If you see a big dude lifting a lot of weight means he is doing it right 😂

And yet everyone else with actual knowledge knows that stretching your lats out at the top is key for growth in any lat exercise.

Love that you are using a false grip as well!

Omg this is such a good tip. Thank you! I’ve been having trouble at this specific machine.

Always form first. Yet most people seem to want to lift heavier than they should

Yeh my gym buddy does everything wrong constantly but he never listens to me untill someone else then again tells him the same things ... He's like oh I'm gonna do this now I saw it on KZfaq ... I'm like mate I told you that last week

Thanks. I always have trouble with pulldowns, and its back day today!

Mam this reel is sooo amazing sooo much learn this and i actually do this wrong way Thanku for make this video 🙌🙌🙏🔥🔥❤

The common mistake is doing more lat pulldowns than pull ups😂

You should let your shoulders go. It will give your lats a full stretch and take your biceps out of the equation. If you keep your shoulders locked, you feel less lats and more biceps.

Omg… that’s super helpful! Thx!

How you gonna make a video about proper form and have incorrect form 💀💀💀

Nope the second tip is wrong. Letting your shoulders come up is good for getting the stretch in your lats which over time will be very beneficial

Took your advice and Definitely felt it where you said !

thank you so much... I was searching here and there of how to do this properly...

If you want you lats to work more you actrually want to do the pull down full range of motion , not moving the shoulders is a variation , but its not benefital if your main goal is to build and train your lats.

We should all know by now that the only advice we should be taking from women is on leg day.

This makes so much sense. I always thought you wanted a bigger ROM kind of like a row.

Team Full ROM here i am gonna drop my shoulders still thanks for the advice :)

Eh, my goal is to move as much weight as possible so if I'm moving as much weight as I can then I'm successful and doing things exactly as I intended.

The scapula release at the top important and is full ROM. If you have some sort of shoulder issue then thats a different story

Great form you are completely right.

Thanks great info🏋️‍♀️

If you ever get gym advice from a woman do the complete opposite 🤣🤣

“Dropping your shoulders up like this” women ☕️

Wow. Lovely. I got distracted by those boo 👻 🐝 🐝 though. But I won’t forget how to do lat pull downs correctly now!

ABSOLUTLY INCORRECT!!! I let my shoulders come out as FAR as possible to get a tremendous stretch, and then tremendous contraction in my lats. Right now as I type this, my lats are SOO sore from Mondays lat session. ALL from letting my shoulders come out as far as they could go. And this also goes for rowing movements. 007

Thank you, so helpful, I’m a newbie to the gym, been going a couple of months, never been explained this ❤

One of my favorite back exercises. I do them first and I do them intense. Very good advice. 👍

This was so helpful thank you!

Nobody has ever mentioned the shoulder thing to me. Thank you 🙏

So love your tips Hanna. Thanks❤

Fantastic explanation

When i learned about positioning my scapula correctly it revolutionised my use of the lat pulldown and i started making ACTUAL progress 🎉 form is everything in the gym!!

You explained it better than most men do thank you😊

1st one for sure but the second tip about the shoulders, it’s pulling your lats forcing them to stretch like crazy. It’s great to sit there in a hang for a couple seconds in the hard working sets to really get them burning for the last couple reps. Fills with blood, huge pump.

Actually, that's a great tip! thanks

I always pull towards my chest using your technique.

I like to start my clients with assisted pull ups, this movement translates so good on lat pull down specifically when u tell them to pay attention where his arms and chest are at during the pull up movement

Pull with your elbows! Best advice I ever got for lat pulldowns :)

Perfectly explained 🔥💪

Great technique!💪🏻

“Dropping your shoulders up like this” well said….

wow i’ve this whole time .. thank you so much !

Awesome! Love these form over weights videos

Thanks for the tip.

Thank you so much for this.

The first technique really works for me

You know I’ve never benefited from lat pull downs now I know why. Everything she pointed out as wrong I was doing thanks for the explanation

A great cue for anything lat related for me, is to "protect yourself from somebody tickling you in your armpits"

Contact on your lats: perfectly said!

So so helpful.

I used to absolutely hate this workout because there are so many things you can get wrong and I used to feel nothing in my lats, Now I'm only doing half my bodyweight but with proper form and my lats are getting wide af and I'm loving it.

Good girl. Very well explained

Thanks ❤

This is so helpful 🙌🏿👌🏿👌🏿

The 2nd part about the shoulders definitely isn’t a mistake as others have said. It’s a variation that gives more ROM to the lats. Obviously, that part of the stretch needs to be controlled and one shouldn’t let the weight pull you up. The eccentric needs to be controlled to get that good stretch at the top. If you raises your hands in the air, you should feel the stretch on the lats. She’s a pro and I understand she knows what she’s talking about, but other pros have researched that “mistake” and argued that part about the shoulders can actually help with lat activation more and hypertrophy because of the stretch. Definitely try both methods to see which hits your targets better. Do 1 for 2 - 4 weeks (however long your meso program is) and try the other during the other meso. The stretch and full ROM works better for me and getting the connection with my lats as I drive back down

Thank for following with proper motion ! I was afraid this video was only going to explain what not to do 😊❤

When you let your shoulders come up, you get a full stretch so you’re just trying to keep tension on the muscle instead of get a full range of motion which is suboptimal

Good explanation!

Thank you soo much 😊

So beautiful and well said ❤😊

Thank you 🙏🏼

thank you Arnold

I'm gonna try this, thanks

This was helpful

Really good first tip but elevating your shoulders is a postive thing to do. It gives you full ROM and full stretch for you Lats thus more Gains

I needed this so bad

“Dropping your shoulders up like this” Jeeze

Full stretch at the top is good for allowing blood to flow into all parts of the lat, helping make it more full.

Amazing thank you

This is a great tutorial!

Awesome Advice

I read a few comments about the shoulder thing. In all honesty as much as I generally dislike the quick training type videos. This is a good one for beginners and that's who it appears to be that she is talking to. Variations of moves are generally better for people who have at least learn the basics first. So those of you that felt they needed to show they knew something because they've been Lifting for x amount of time, remember there's beginners out there. There's no need to try to puff up and pretend to be somebody. When this is an actual good example for somebody who is new. basic and easy should be learned first.

That big dude is big for a reason

proper form is important for building muscle, but sometimes it just feels good to stretch as well as move.

Very good info thank you

Thank you Queen 👸

Letting your shoulders come up is akin to doing a dead hang in a pullup bar. It's great for the lats. Busted thru a plateau doing this.

Great video