Due to the nature of the movement you will activate larger percentage of your back muscles which will result in better muscle growth.
Seated cable row lat pulldown bar.
With your back straight grab the bar with an overhand grip your arms fully extended.
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Standing lat pulldown the defining difference.
When pulling down from a standing position you change the exercise from a strict locked in your seat pulldown that isolates the lats to a variation that requires more core involvement.
The lat pulldown is basically a machine version of the pull up and chin up.
Also leaning your torso back as you row gives the benefits of a vertical and horizontal pull.
Step 1 sit on a bench facing an adjustable cable machine with a lat pulldown bar positioned on a high setting.
This variation of the single arm dumbbell row uses a barbell anchored at one end either into a landmine hosel or into a corner with some towels to keep the wall from getting chewed up some people find this setup allows them to achieve a greater range of motion than either the barbell or dumbbell provides.
Before getting started adjust the seat and chest pad.
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If you want to work all areas of your upper back a dual function machine is the ticket.
Here is how it should be done using an overhand pull up grip.
Sentencing starting most of your back workouts with rows will help you.
T bar row machine is the perfect example.
When subjects did seated cable rows muscle activity of the lats was more than 40 greater than when they did wide grip pulldowns.
Instead of pulling yourself up to the bar you pull the bar down to you.
Lat pulldowns and cable row combos are great but there are better exercises which could help you to build a thicker back.
Rows rows appear to be a better exercise for stimulating more of the lat muscle fibers and therefore helping to build a bigger back.
So everything i mentioned above about the different grips applies to the lat pulldown just the same.