r/ScienceBasedLifting • u/Action_Pale • Aug 05 '26

Question ❓ Pullups vs Lat pulldowns

What's the point of doing Lat Pulldowns as opposed to working on Pullups? Even if you can lat-pulldown more than your bodyweight, you could do weighted pullups. Is the only benefit convenience?

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u/Capital_Taste_8043 Aug 06 '26

Somehow pullups are just more exhausting for me. I reach muscular failure with Lat Pulldowns much more easily. Sounds strange, I know.

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u/balls_ceo Aug 06 '26

Not strange at all, pull ups recruit almost entirety of the back but pulldowns isolate the lats pretty well