Most people do lat pulldowns wrong, using their biceps instead of their back. The fix: tuck your armpits tight, depress your lats toward your spine, and pull your chest down instead of your elbows. This creates the V-taper shape and actually activates your back.
And this is how most people would do it, right? So they're super protracted forward, they move through their arms, they're using actually all biceps, forearm flexes. You can see his forearm flexes working. They won't feel it in their back at all. So let's break some things down, right? You're going to tuck your underarm pits, tuck your armpits into your underpants as much as possible. Again, if you look at the lats on Jason, we can see the lats are this big kind of— makes this Dorito shape. When people talk about having the V-taper, they're talking about the lats that are coming out. He's depressed all the lats in towards his spine. He's going to extend his thoracic up nice nice and high. That's the mid-back, just through there. He's going to pull that into his chest. Imagine there was a, a rod that goes from here up to his chest. Now, holding those two pieces together, I want you to pull it down. Now watch as he pulls down, you can see all of this come together. That's the initiation point. You can see every single rep that he does is initiated from the back.
