When you mix your own corn flour and lard, or you buy tamale masa from a tortilleria â tortillerÃ­a the kind thatâdoesn t yet have lard added to â it you have much more control over the moistness of the. Dough you can make it as creamy as you. Want i personally like my masa to look like cookie, dough kind of dense and. sticky personally like my masa to look like cookie dough, kind of dense and sticky. If you want a smoother, moister dough, such as for making tamales oaxaquenos, oaxaqueÃ±os try corn tortilla masa combined with. Lardâthat s what we used in my cooking course and they turned out super. sÃºper suave
Those things are all true and all nice to know, but they donât explain why the lats are so important in a bench press. The lats literally contribute by helping you driving the bar off the chest, in this instance (the first part of the bench press) they are a pushing muscle, not a pulling muscle.
Oh the Lats! Easily one of the internetâs favorite muscles. Canât reach overhead? Gotta be the lats. Canât do pull-ups? Better train those lats. On a trip to bat wing swole town? Gotta hit those lats! I must say, these muscles get a lot of attention. However, one area where I think they also play a role is in shoulder pain. Before I explain, a little anatomy about the lats, also known as latissimus dorsi: The lats attach from the humerus (upper arm bone), down to the thoracolumbar fascia, which inserts directly into the pelvis. You can see this in the picture of the lats in red. The lats function to extend and internally rotate the arm as well as to extend the lumbar spine (the latter being a lesser known thing I find)