Thread 76806449

What's your favourite row variation?

>>76806449 (OP)
You dont need anything more than the first two and their variations

>>76806449 (OP)
I am partial to gorilla rows because they are rather fun to do.

db row, both feet on the ground, one hand on the db rack, db foot forward so it's not a total clown show other than that cheating allowed

Been loving barbell row for a while but im having trouble getting the same old squeeze lately so im about to try chinups, pullups, then dumbell rows after.

>>76806552
How do you avoid lower back stress when bb rowing

>>76806569
Not being a glassback or a geriatric over 35
Alternatively a belt and proper form

>>76806449 (OP)
Cable rows. specifically low to high wide grip and high to low narrow grip.

I started doing Yates rows recently and they've been feeling great. Other than that I like doing chest supported/seal rows. Pendlay rows are fun too for explosive power.

>>76806569
I never really had that problem with barbell row, and i grew up with childhood skuliosis and a bad back. Maybe you need to do some core work?

>>76806449 (OP)
Manmaker rows look compelling. I'm going to try it on rings next time I do ring pushups.

>>76806658
It looks like a total meme to me, that you could never do with enough weight to challenge your lats.

>>76806569
How much do you row?

barbell rows are shit. best row is meadows row

>>76806699
>It's a t-bar/landmine row but you look like a dafodill doing it
No thanks

>>76806669
True. But I'm a calisthenics fag and don't do heavy weights so it could work for my purposes.

>>76806709
More like a fancy chest-supported machine row. Because of the arc the bar makes the weight starts in front of you but finishes to your side, it's more natural and gives you a potentially longer ROM than t-bar/landmine rows. Also you can go pretty heavy so it's not gay. I still prefer good old db rows but they're neat.

>>76806674
80kg - pendlay row to avoid aforementioned lower back issue. Dunno about regular BB rows, probably much less, like 65-70kg

band resisted inverted row. something I came up with. basically some band pegs and a power rack. place band across power rack and pull body through band. the thing I like about this one is it's so easy to setup and very effective.

>>76806569
Don't do bb rows (esp if you're tall), not everyone has good proportions for it and it's easy to hurt yourself in a dumb way. Switch to chest supported rows or db/kroc rows, it's absolutely not worth it to nuke your lower back by doing rows.

>>76807787
I guess this asshole already came up with it. Whatever dude

>>76807787
>>76807815
isn't it easier to wear a weighted backpack while doing the exercise? same as with weighted pullups/dips

>>76806449 (OP)
T-bar
>>76806464
Two of the worst on the list

>>76807825
No. I can add 100+lbs resistance easily with a band. Weight vests become very painful to load very quickly not to mention the costs. Plus they feel weird in rows with the strap under the armpit it can impede ROM. I can scale the resistance much quicker and easier with bands

>>76806569
You don't. Lower back stress is a feature not a bug

people who don't do anything for a living don't mind their lower back being burnt out 7 days a week

>>76806449 (OP)
Cable or t-bar

>>76806449 (OP)
Are gorilla rows good? I like them because they make me feel like a gorilla.

>>76806449 (OP)

essentials: single arm high row, heavy mid row, cable long pull with grip variants, heavy low row. also do linear row whenever i come across this machine. nothing feels like growing ur lats to the point it hangs or looks as if it's melting down per gf.

>>76806449 (OP)
Pendlay rows for barbells, standing kroc rows off the back of an inclined bench for dumbbells. But rows are the one thing that cables and chest supported machines are just better.

>>76808060
Didn't understand a word of that. Are they all machines?

>>76806449 (OP)
Barbell row
Smith machine row
Low row machine

>>76806449 (OP)
are helms row good or did i fall for a meme?

>>76806449 (OP)
yates row

besides doing weighted pullups i only do 2 kind of rows , and back is my best looking muscle group , medium mag grip cable row with flare elbows and unilateral chest supported machine row with elbows tucked

>>76806569
Do t bar rows, chest assisted, or just a Yates row

>>76808261
My gym only has a t-bar row machine rather than the one screwed into the ground, the angles are all wrong and there's nothing gained from using it over a regular bent over row

cable and meadows
honourable mention: inverted

>>76806449 (OP)
Cable row or any chest supported row because my back is fucked

>>76807857
Deadliftlet

>>76806580
>geriatric over 35
did u really have to do me like that, bro....

>>76809391
I like inverted rows but I can do like 12-15 and don't see an easy way of adding weight

>>76806449 (OP)
I loved the Kroc Row, with proper form my whole back got destroyed by it. My new gym doesn't have DBs that heavy so I don't do it anymore.

i do the chest supported row with a barbell loaded with 55lbs, it's not alot but it makes sure i have perfect form
if i had dumbells in my hand like in that picture
i'd be doing reverse flyes

>>76806449 (OP)
All these are terrible

>>76810897
woah we got a contrarian over here!

>>76810897
Do enlighten us

>>76806449 (OP)
Seated cable
I can just load it easier and keep progressing in weight at a good rate still. Most other rows have much slower creep for me.

>>76809391
>meadows
these look hard on the elbows, is that the case?

>>76809412
weighted vest and changing the level your feet are at might make it more challenging, i mostly used them to help me get back into shape after being bed ridden for 6 months or as the occasional finisher if i want to do something extra
>>76811096
i haven't found that to be the case

>>76806449 (OP)
Gorilla rows because ook ook me ape pick up big thing

>>76806449 (OP)
Doesn’t cable work your lats more? I always do it when the zoomtards crowd the lat pulldowns

>>76806569
Deadlift

>>76812171
Providing you don't flare your elbows

>>76812171
Yes, but your back isn't all lats.

>>76813066
*yes to pulldowns, vertical pulls in general not cables

Pendlay Rows

You do a full reset with every rep, so you don't get the 'bounce' and lower back strain that you get from regular BB rows. And it's harder to cheat.