💪 Beef Up Your Lats With These 10 Dumbbell Exercises

Welcome to another edition of The Ripped Report, where you'll get all the bodybuilding content and workout tips your fitness routine could ever need. The only thing we don't do is physically lift the weights for you ... yet.

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If your chest routine is missing a champion's touch, follow along as Classic Physique winner Chris Bumstead blasts his pecs and triceps during his 2022 Olympia prep.

Four-time Men's Physique Olympia winner Jeremy Buendia is in the midst of training for a comeback. And his 4,600-calorie bulking diet is his secret weapon to getting there.

Machines, cables, and barbells work just fine, but if you want to really put an exclamation point on your V-taper, try these lat-building dumbbell exercises.

OLYMPIA PREP

Chris Bumstead Trains Chest as He Eyes Another O Title

With three straight Classic Physique Olympia titles under his belt and tens of millions of followers on social media, Chris Bumstead is the undisputed face of his division and one of bodybuilding's most important ambassadors. (He also happens to have the raddest mustache in the biz.) But all that success isn't making him complacent during this year’s Olympia prep — if anything, he’s looking as good, if not better than ever.

In a recent video posted to his YouTube channel, Bumstead walked fans through a blood-pumping chest and triceps workout where he hit all the classics: pec deck flyes, incline dumbbell press, rope pushdowns, and more.

We’re still two and a half months away from the Olympia, but CBum already looks primed to secure the rare four-peat.

NUTRITION

Jeremy Buendia’s Comeback Diet

In September 2022, four-time Men’s Physique champ Jeremy Buendia officially announced that he is eyeing a return to the Olympia stage next year. But to pack on the size necessary for a comeback, he needs to eat — a lot.

Buendia recently posted a video to his YouTube channel detailing a full day of eating on his current bulking diet. And as you’d expect, it involves a veritable smorgasbord of lean meats, peanut butter, and sweet potatoes. By the end of the day, he’d consumed around 4,625 calories, including 488 grams of carbs, 427 grams of protein, and 107 grams of fat across seven meals.

The 2023 Olympia might be over a year away, but Buendia is pounding protein shakes and egg whites like it’s right around the corner.

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TRAINING TIPS

Grab a Set of Dumbbells for Bigger Lats

Any lifter worth their salt knows how important the lats — or latissimus dorsi, if you want to get fancy — are to their fitness goals. These broad back muscles are critical for upper-body pulling strength and are vital to maintaining good posture and bolstering stability. Plus, they look really cool when they're built well.

To give you the strength and aesthetics you crave, we’ve come up with a list of the 10 best lat exercises you can do with just a set of dumbbells. Whoever said you need a pulldown machine to grow a beefy set of wings?

THE DROPSET

A Bizarre Piece of Bodybuilding History

• Take a trip back in time as we explore the strange history of wrestling tycoon Vince McMahon’s failed World Bodybuilding Federation.

• Need some inspiration for your next delt workout? Follow figure competitor Jennifer Aguirre’s lead for building a proper set of boulder shoulders.

• As president of the Olympia, Dan Solomon has a pretty stressful gig. He recently sat down with bodybuilder Mike O’Hearn to talk about how he manages it through compassion and a sense of humor.

SOUND OFF!

Who Can Knock Off CBum?

THE RESULTS ARE IN!

Andrew Jacked's Impact on the Olympia

In the September 27, 2022, edition of The Ripped Report, we asked where you think Andrew Jacked will place at this year's Mr. Olympia. Here are the results:

1. Top Three (32%)

2. Top Five (29%)

3. Top 10 (27%)

4. First (9%)

5. Top 15 (3%)

6. Last (0%)