Most Documented Lats Exercises
Free Exercise DB ranking: Lats exercises sorted by numbered instruction steps and text length, catalog coverage, not training advice.
Catalog leader for this muscle
Side To Side Chins carries the longest numbered instruction list among 15 ranked lats primary-target records shown here (7 steps, 1,517 characters in the upstream text).
- #1
- 7 steps · Side To Side Chins
- 93
- tagged inventory total
- 15
- primary-target rows ranked
Step count ranks documentation depth in the Free Exercise DB extract, not exercise quality or safety.
Ranked by instruction step count
Sorted by json_array_length(instructions_json) on exercises whose primary muscle is lats.
| Rank | Exercise | Steps | Chars | Variations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Side To Side Chins | 7 | 1,517 | 0 |
| 2 | Elevated Cable Rows | 7 | 1,099 | 3 |
| 3 | Close-Grip Front Lat Pulldown | 6 | 1,588 | 3 |
| 4 | Wide-Grip Pulldown Behind The Neck | 6 | 1,575 | 3 |
| 5 | Wide-Grip Lat Pulldown | 6 | 1,566 | 3 |
| 6 | Rocky Pull-Ups/Pulldowns | 6 | 1,369 | 0 |
| 7 | Underhand Cable Pulldowns | 6 | 1,290 | 3 |
| 8 | Gironda Sternum Chins | 6 | 915 | 0 |
| 9 | V-Bar Pulldown | 6 | 826 | 3 |
| 10 | Pullups | 5 | 1,273 | 0 |
| 11 | Chin-Up | 5 | 1,099 | 0 |
| 12 | Wide-Grip Rear Pull-Up | 5 | 1,009 | 0 |
| 13 | V-Bar Pullup | 5 | 884 | 0 |
| 14 | Straight-Arm Pulldown | 5 | 854 | 0 |
| 15 | Cable Incline Pushdown | 5 | 738 | 0 |
How to read this ranking
This page lists only exercises whose primary muscle field names lats. Tagged-inventory counts on the muscle hub can be higher because secondary tags count too. Derived ranks are labeled as our analysis; raw source counts live on each exercise record.
Where the upstream file omits a field, the exercise page says so, we do not estimate missing values. See the corrections process to report a mismatch.
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