The landmine arc carves your lats like nothing else.
Grip right at the sleeve for that arcing path, hinge deep and keep your free hand braced on your thigh.
Standing side-on to a landmine and rowing the sleeve end with your outside hand sends the bar through an arc, so the pull sweeps up and back rather than straight up, carving into the lats from an angle a straight path cannot reach. The thick sleeve taxes your grip while the biceps assist the pull, one side at a time. It earns its place as a lat width builder, especially for lifters whose usual rows have gone stale.
The bar pivots from a fixed point, so the end you are holding travels in a curve. That arc lets the weight drift away from you at the bottom for a huge lat stretch, then swing up and back into a squeeze, a resistance path no free-hanging weight gives you.
The sleeve is where the arc is widest and the fat grip lives. Gripping further down the bar shortens the arc, changes the leverage, and loses the grip challenge. If the sleeve is too thick for your hands, straps are fair game, this is a back exercise first.
Let it travel out and up naturally with the arc, roughly 45 degrees or more from your torso. That flare is part of the design and shifts emphasis across the lat and upper back. Forcing a tucked elbow fights the bar path and cuts the range short.
