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No Lat Pulldown Machine? Six Alternatives and What the Research Found

By The Angles90 Editorial Team

Six substitutes for the lat pulldown, compared by the gear each needs and how firm the research behind each one is. Pull-ups and strap pull-ups come first, with a banded pulldown, a pulley setup, an...
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What Muscles Do Pull-Ups Work? A Muscle-by-Muscle Guide

By The Angles90 Editorial Team

Your lats do the most work in a pull-up, and the biceps, rotator cuff, shoulder-blade muscles, chest and trunk all join in. This guide goes muscle by muscle through what lab studies measured, how the...
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How to Do an Inverted Row: Setup, Form and Progressions

By The Angles90 Editorial Team

Hang under a bar or straps, keep your body rigid and pull your chest to your hands. This guide gives the steps in order, then the three settings, body angle, feet and grip, that make...
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Horizontal Pull Exercises: 7 Rows Compared by Support, Elbow Path and Hands

By The Angles90 Editorial Team

A horizontal pull brings the load toward your torso, and seven rows do it differently. See how each sets your torso support, elbow path and hand position, what the lab studies measured, and which fits...
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Neutral Grip Pull-Ups: How to Do Them and What They Work

By The Angles90 Editorial Team

The neutral grip pull-up loads the same back and arm muscles as other grips, with less middle trapezius than the overhand version. Get the form, what the shoulder study did and did not test, and...
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How to Do a Neutral Grip Lat Pulldown, and When to Switch Grips

By The Angles90 Editorial Team

A neutral grip lat pulldown, palms facing each other, worked the lats much like wide and overhand grips in a 2025 study of 40 trained men. Get the form step by step, see how seven...
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Seated Cable Row: How to Do It, What It Works and Which Handle to Use

By The Angles90 Editorial Team

Your handle decides where your elbows travel, and your elbows decide which muscles lead. Here is clean seated cable row form, what two recent EMG studies found about narrow versus wide grips, and a side-by-side...
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How to Do a Chin-Up: Form, Muscles Worked and Your First Rep

By The Angles90 Editorial Team

Palms toward you, chin over the bar, controlled descent. Chin-ups differ from pull-ups less than gym advice assumes. Inside: precise form cues, what laboratory studies measured and a five-step progression toward your first rep.
Your Complete Guide to HYROX North America Fall 2026 (And How to Actually Be Ready)

Your Complete Guide to HYROX North America Fall 2026 (And How to Actually Be Ready)

By eBrands Global

Eleven HYROX races land in North America between September and December, four of them in cities that have never hosted one. If you already have a bib, the useful question is what the race actually...