Lat Pull Down Machine

The lat pull-down is an exercise you can do with a weight machine to work the muscles on the sides of your chest wall and upper back. Done properly, the lat pull-down targets the latissimus dorsi, a muscle on the outer side of the chest wall.The pull-down exercise is a strength training exercise designed to develop the latissimus dorsi muscle. It performs the functions of downward rotation and depression of the scapulae combined with adduction and extension of the shoulder joint.A lat pulldown is a compound exercise that targets your back muscles. Perform the lat pulldown exercise by sitting in front of a cable machine with a pulldown bar. Grab the bar and bend your elbows to lower it closer towards your upper chest.The lat pulldown is a weight-adjusted cable exercise that replicates the vertical pulling-down motion that we see with the pull-up. It's a seated version of the exercise that takes out the difficulty of using your own bodyweight.