It is an age-old belief among body builders that it is much easier for a person to build up the lower half of the body, as compared to building up the upper body muscles. If you are one of those people who have been working out your full body muscles for over a year, you will have noticed more muscle development on your legs than on your upper body. The simplest way to bulk up the muscles of the upper body, is to focus on the lats. This is because lats are the largest muscles in the body, even larger than the leg muscles, and they occupy the largest area of the body.

Lats are what are responsible for the V-taper of professionally competing body builders. They give breadth to the back and shoulders, when worked out well. Lats are also the muscles that can withhold the largest amount of weight than any other muscle group of the body. They can also withhold against the largest of resistances, among the capacities of all other muscle groups in the body. The lats directly lock on to all the major muscle groups of the back, including the deltoids, rhomboids and trapezoids. As a result, working out the lats, automatically works out the deltas, the traps and the rhombs.

Pull-ups, which are also popularly known as chin-ups otherwise, are the best possible exercise, to work out one’s lats, if done the right way. In order for the chin-ups to leave a substantial effect on your lats, you will need to place the grips of your arms, as wide as possible, on the stationery bar. This way, the lats and all the other muscle groups locked on to your lats, will get worked out simultaneously. If you can do these pull ups, such that the stationery bar is behind your back, and when you pull up your body on it, the back of your neck is above the level of the stationery bar, then this is an extremely effective work out for your trapezoids in particular.

If you do front pull ups, then the most effective way to do this is to raise your body with your arms, up to the front of your chest level, and then slowly go all the way down. Then repeat all the way up, and so on for the no. of sets that you have targeted in a particular week. For back pull ups, as mentioned earlier, you can pull up your body to the level of your neck, and if you have advanced, then try to pull it up to the level of the upper tip of your trapezoids.

While working out on your lats, make sure that you never ever wildly swing around or jerk around your legs or any other muscle group of the body. This can not only take away from all the good effect, which could have otherwise been achieved from your lats exercise, but under certain unfortunate circumstances, it can also cause serious, or even potentially permanent, irrevocable and large-scale muscle injuries. This is because your lats are the largest muscle group. Just like exercising your lats can automatically exercise the maximum number of muscles around your body, fooling around with your lats, can also cause the gravest and most impacting of all muscle injuries.

Don’t take your self too high on back pull-ups, if you can’t get yourself down slowly and gracefully. Slowly practice, and gain strength to go all the way up to the upper tip of your trapezoids, and release slowly, all the way down. Back pull-ups are one of the best keys to achieving a perfect V-taper from your upper body building program.

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