In my last post, I wrote about importance of mind muscle connection with strength training of any kind in this post I will speak about the lats and how simply you can create this mind muscle connection and begin to see isolated results even with compound movements in your training which should then show you how important and effective this "connection" is.
To someone who doesnt train this is quite probably jibberish. Your lats will become like an extra limb between you shoulders and spine and a supporting platform for your triceps.
Once they get to a reasonable size you will completely understand the last sentence.
And this is how you get there.......
When I started training my back a couple years after I started training ashamedly :s
I was training all wrong of course at the time I had no idea I was using the lat pull down wrongly. I was tugging down 100kg
For 6-8 reps and wondered why only my arms seemed to grow from it, because I wasnt a bodybuilder or interested in growing the aesthetic look of my lats I was training them very ineffectively.
All I cared about was shifting the weight because I was under the illusion proudly that a strength athlete should only care about moving the weight. It wasn't ego... It might be with some but it wasn't with me I just wasn't interested in moving light weights and squeezing reps because I thought it was a bodybuilders training for a bodybuilders body.
But let's get something straight bodybuilders target the muscles they are working very well!
They are the best at this because they want to isolate the muscle to cause it to grow.
So instead of being proud I should have watched them and learned since I trained in a gym surrounded and owned by some very very succesful bodybuilders.
Once I learned to
1 roll back my shoulders..
2 tilt my ribcage so my chest was out as far as possible.
3 and pinch my shoulder blades together to the point where they were nearly cramping.
My lats started to grow!!! And the mind muscle connection along with that growth helped me correct my deadlift form, create a good arch for bench and use the size I had created in my lats as a platform to push my triceps from in all varieties of benchwork even standing dumbell press.
All of which allowed me to start moving greater loads in these areas!
I hope this shows you the importance of mind muscle connection in the lats and training with proper form and not wasting your time in the gym with ineffective training!
