Lat Pulldown on FreeMotion Machine

It’s always good to constantly add a little variety to your weight training workout by fitting in a different exercise every 2 to 3 weeks and rotating it into your workout routine. This is another way of doing a wide lat pull-down (wide arm positioning) using the FreeMotion lat pull-down machine which works your lateral muscles a little differently and places secondary emphasis on the trapezius muscles and the deltoid muscles.

There are three different types of exercises that you can do on this FreeMotion Lat machine that I want to discuss. You may not have this machine at the gym, if not, there may be or should be a similar one like this one and you can use it. I like to combine 2 types of hand grips for this lat pulldown into 1 exercise. In this one, you are going to begin with a wide grip and bring your hands into a close grip. The swivel pulleys on this machine are designed to give you a wider or unlimited range of motion to allow you to perform this exercise and hence FreeMotion is an appropriate name for their types of machines.

back exercise using the FreeMotion pulldown weight training machine

Method of Performance

This is a very simple exercise to do that will provide you with a little variation to your back exercise workout routine and add some nice definition to your back.

Variations of this exercise

If you prefer, you can do this only with your palms facing forwards at all times or with your palms facing inwards. With your palms facing inwards, this exercise is more of a pull-in and works the lats a little differently and from a different angle.

Feel free to add in these three variations of this exercise into your workout and to rotate them over a 3 to 6 week period. I like to add one of them in to my workout every 2-3 weeks because there are so many different types of back exercises to go through over that period.

Also, if you do not have the FreeMotion machine at your gym or a similar one like it, you can use the cable pulley crossover work stations by putting a flat bench in between the two sides and adjusting the two handles to the proper desired height.