Turns out I was not doing the lateral pulldown in a way that used my lats - which was not helpful.
At my strongest (a few years ago) I was doing (IIRC) 80kg on the lat pulldown, today we were doing 90 for repeated sets of 13, plus 4*7 at 90 on the deadlift (I am aware that these figures are small, but for me they are the highest I've ever done).
Turns out I was not doing the lateral pulldown in a way that used my lats - which was not helpful.
At my strongest (a few years ago) I was doing (IIRC) 80kg on the lat pulldown, today we were doing 90 for repeated sets of 13, plus 4*7 at 90 on the deadlift (I am aware that these figures are small, but for me they are the highest I've ever done).