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It should be high enough to have your arms above your head, and the band pretty well parallel to the floor.

Tie the band to the top of a power rack.

This specific alternative may be better used when your lats are warmed up at the end of your session. The advantage to this straight arm pulldown alternative compared to other pullover variations is you get maximum tension where the movement is most effortless. The standing band pullover will give you an epic stretch on the lats that the band straight arm pulldown won’t give you. I first saw this variation from Strongman Nick Best and thought it was a genius straight arm pulldown alternative. The goal is to drill the feeling of having the lats keep tension when deadlifting or the feeling of them working during other back exercises.

Slowly return to the starting position.Ī big mistake is not treating this as a pure lat exercise.

Keep a big chest as you pull and stop once your hands are by your side.

This will give you a better feeling through your lats instead of your shoulders and arms.

Have your arms slightly bent and think about pulling your elbows back.

This is why you must tie the band above your head.

Bend over with your arms straight until your arms are close to an overhead position.

Grip the band and walk back until there is some tension in the band.Tie a band above your head onto something sturdy.But you will get an excellent lat contraction as you pull the band down due to the increasing band tension. Unfortunately, you won’t get the immense lat stretch at the top of the movement as the band tension is reduced. A power rack is your best option if you have one. You are sorted if you have somewhere high enough to tie a band. This is one of the closest straight arm pulldown alternatives replicating the straight arm pulldown.