What Is the Latissimus Dorsi Muscle? The latissimus dorsi is a large muscle covering your back. You may know it as your lats muscles. They're connected to many parts of your body, originating from ...

What Is a Lat Pulldown? The lat pulldown is an upper-body exercise that focuses on the muscles of your back. Much like the squat and bench press, it’s considered a compound exercise — meaning that it ...

You might have heard of trainers or your doctor refer to your latissimus dorsi muscle, or “lat” for short. This large muscle in the back of the upper body does a lot of work during everyday movements, ...

Good morning and welcome to Summit Up, the world’s only daily column that’s crawling back from a back injury that nearly put us out of commission for good. At least that’s how it felt when the ...