Mark OttobreFounder, Enterprise Fitness · Results Driven Coaching

Who Else Can Relate To This

12 Sept 2026 · 0 min

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In this brief segment, the speaker confesses a long‑standing difficulty isolating the latissimus dorsi during training. Despite working with numerous personal trainers, online coaches, and receiving a variety of cues—including the “lat pulldown reset” cue—they never succeeded in feeling the lats engage. Only at the very end of a session, while performing lat pulldowns, a specific cue finally clicked for them, allowing proper lat activation. The speaker credits an individual named Amoah for providing the decisive guidance that unlocked the movement.

I've never actually been able to isolate my lats. I've trained with so many trainers, even with online coaches and the critiquing. And even with the lat pulldown thing, the whole reset thing, that has never been— I've never had as many cues. And then it wasn't until the very end when we were on the lat pulldowns, like, finally clicked. Like, I actually finally got what you're trying to get me to do to isolate my lats. I didn't get that. So eventually you realize Amoah is right.