Mark Ottobre switched his client Jamie from a straight bar to MagGrips for lat pulldowns. The curved grip lets your scapula move more freely and reduces wrist strain, making it easier to actually feel your lats working instead of relying on forearm strength.
When I first started training with Mark Ottobre, so what I did here was I changed the grip from a straight bar to using one of the MagGrips. The MagGrips are a lot nicer on the wrists and the hands and also allows for more of a scapular articulation. So people are really able to retract and depress and really use that, all their scapula, without really using much forearm strength at all. So I think it was a lot nicer for Jamie.
I was really struggling with the lat pulldowns because I wasn't able to get that mind-muscle connection with my lats, and I was getting really frustrated because I was so used to doing a completely different way.
