How do you exercise your teres major and latissimus dorsi muscles?
Well done for finding out the names. Perhaps the book showed you how these muscles pull the upper arm backwards and downwards. So exercises involving these movements will train the muscles you listed. Lat is best trained with pullups (if you can lift your bodyweight) or pulldowns on an ‘overhead pulley’ gym machine. Teres is involved when you do these, but it will get a better workout if you pull backwards with a ‘wide elbows’ action. You can do this by pulling your body up from a lying position to a low bar (like pressups, but upside-down). Or you could lie face-down on a bench, and lift two dumbells outwards and upwards. This is called a ‘reverse fly’ or ‘downward fly’).
