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What sucks about being hairy as a Neanderthal is that it obscures everything so it takes harder to see how ripped you actually are. It is funny though to look fluffy before getting into a pool and climbing out looking like you just lost several pounds.
@@ghfjfghjasdfasdf read the nutrition facts on a box of Fruity Pebbles. Then multiply by 11 (number of servings in a box that I consume in one sitting). It's a god damn superfood 😂
Same here. Bent rows is really where ego idiots can be spotted as if is really one of those movement where you can double your weight if you do it poorly. I hide to do my bent rows because I want to do them well.
so then this channel is useless to you... you might be better off finding a channel that challenges your views so you could either strengthen them or change them in forced ponderence
I think what makes rows tricky for us is that maintaining form is very difficult. In bench you take it down to the chest, pause, then push. In squats you go down until you hit depth, then you go up. In a row, the act of exerting effort pulls you out of position. It takes a lot of practice compared to other main strength movements.
Squats do the same though. If you don't keep your core tight and have good mobility in the legs and hips, you'll always put pressure on the low back. That's the difficulty! Same here, it seems, where posterior chain stability is paramount. If you're bent, though, you're doing a lot of the same things you're doing in a squat already.
@@Tiger74147it might just be me personally, but squats feel very well coordinated. I’m wedging myself between the bar and the ground. I don’t have to worry about how much force I’m applying at each joint. In rows; I feel like there is a very fine line between activating the hips enough to keep my shoulders from falling down, but not so much that I’m “power rowing”. And I think that just requires a lot of technique and practice… it’s a hard lift.
@@suburiboy"wedging" in squats isn't good. It means you have lack of hip mobility and compensating with more strain than needed on your lower back. You should warm up before squats with hip and knee related mobility exercise.
This is for me proof, of individual differences and finding what works for you. I agree that barbell rows are foundational. They just never built my back, probably because I have scoliosis. I used and sometimes even spammed them for years, yet I never saw a difference in my back looks or strength. Took me five years of being stubborn doing them, but once I switched to an isolation approach, my back growth took off and still is 3 years later. I'll definitely revist them sometime in the future, though. Edit: My old best was 145x10 from a deficit. I recently started rowing again and beat that by two reps. Got 185x3, which I never did before
@yoeyyoey8937 Yeah, but I kept heavy deadlify frequency low. 1 time every 10 days or so. I was trying to use barbell rows as the main back exercise and rowed on days I wasn't deadlifting.
Woolam got me to English Row, Bromley got me to Kroc Row. Now I like to incorporate partial SLDL with a pause, followed with paused row, and a slow slow eccentric
I used to do barbell row with the higher angle, had 275 going and I felt like a beast. I took some time off and came back doing strict instead and now struggle a bit with even 185, but I still feel I'm getting a better workout. My favorite exercise by far.
Always row after deadlift. The bar sits there, I've taken off some weight after my top set, it's ready to go. I also follow that with cable row, to "save my lower back". Strict form and deep stretch stuff. It's all progressing very nicely, and I'm more stable on the bench with some built in back support.
idk my core is pretty friend after DL's and I struggle to keep a good posture and good core bracing. I usually end up having to program rows on days that I don't deadlift.
Great video. I started bent over rows but my legs were too weak and was feeling it in my knees so i've been building legs up over the past 5 weeks with deep squats and after seeing this video i'm going to get on the bent over rows tomorrow. Thanks for the motivation!
I thought I was gonna have to go under the knife which really sucked because I can't afford health insurance. But I was switching arms every thirty seconds driving and learn to sleep on my back and if I rolled over in my sleep I'd wake up in tears my shoulders were so bad. I had to switch to all safety squats bars. Get ups, band work, massage guns would all numb it for a few minutes but I'd leave in more pain than when I left. Finally it was your fellow UA-cam strongman Brian Ahlsrue that said if you can bench it you should be able to row it. I headed his advice and have zero shoulder pain now. All my lifts are up and I don't have any more shoulder pain and could go back to sleeping on my side.
he is saying his shoulder issues were caused by an imbalance between his chest and back,,, so working on his rows and bringing it up to match his benching strength corrected the imbalance@@charlieross4674
Just found your channel, have to say absolutely dig it! Love the fact youre not some kid or pretty boy on gear - but rather a grown ass man with experience, and a real life as a parent/husband!! Well done, man! I think a lot of us (folk who used to powerlift/train hard) reach a point where the six pack will fade and we get that heavier 'big dude' look. I broke my neck in 2014 (c4-c7 replaced with bars and mesh) and prior to that trained like a zealot. My point is: learning tricks by experienced people like yourself have kept me lifting and relatively in shape even after the big 54.
This video changed my mind about rows,I am doing my pull-ups and deadlifts but I was doing cable rows…tried to do a real bent over row with a wider grip and I felt my upper back work way more than in cable rows
Definitely agree about SBDOR. My program only had the first four and left me with an underwhelming flat back. I worked rows in and every other lift got better.
Been doing 5/3/1 for a while now, set up as a Bro Split, with Rows as the primary back movement. Only difference is I set up the rep scheme for it as 8/5/3, cause the heavier weights wreck my joints. So my work out looks like: Bench 5/3/1, chest/tricpes hypertrophy, 20 min peloton Squat 5/3/1, squat/quad hypertrophy, 20 min heavy bag Row 8/5/3, back/lat/biceps hypertrophy, 20 min farmer carries OHP 5/3/1, shoulder hypertrophy, 20 min peloton Deadlift 5/3/1, posterior chain/hammies hypertrophy, 20 min heavy bag Been rocking like that for about four months and it's been fantastic.
recently hit 225lbs on bent over rows (the right kind) and I can confirm as an endorser of this exercise, my back is wide as hell. I don't even powerlift but the strength gained from this exercise carries over to so many other aspects of my training as well as everyday stuff. don't skip the bent over row gentlemen
The dead-row totally blew up my back. Started smashing PBs, got thicker and my legs got stronger. Having some deadlift action break the inertia of the heavy bar feels safer on my back than going from a dead hang leaning forward.
I love bent rows, but funny enough it was my elbow that made me stop doing them and not my back or recovery or whatever. I got pretty bad tennis elbow on my non dominant side from spamming heavy bent rows, even though I was using straps and had worked up in weight slowly over time. It's been 4-5 months and I'm finally mostly recovered, but I don't think I'll be doing them again anytime soon. Smith machine has been a lifesaver to still hit that pattern. Since the bar doesn't roll in your hands, it doesn't aggravate my elbow, and I'm mostly doing them with an underhand grip since there's very little stress on my biceps tendon using the Smith. I guess you could argue I need to be doing more direct forearm work to prevent issues in the future, and you're not wrong.
I'm glad this finally has a name. Been doing this for years. You can be more explosive as far as force curve goes because you can stop the bar with your chest
Gongrats on parenthood! Greatest feeling ever to hold your child, isn’t it? Thanx for the informative video. Was wondering, how can I incorporate bent rows with pull-ups? My workout is minimal: squats, shrugs, pull-ups, dips, RDLs, hyperextensions, incline sit-ups; all done in one session, 2X/week. Deadlift and incline sit-ups every 3rd workout. Thanx!
Experiment, usually whichever one you want to get better at should go first. Personally I’m so good at pull-ups that I do them first cause otherwise my lats take over and I don’t get as much stim on the rest of my back if I don’t do pull-ups first
The vast majority of the clips you had in the first half of the video did rows with 45 deg angle (more upright like Yates) than fully bent over OR if they started fully bent over, they were definitely up to Yates angle by the time they finished the rep.
Searched through the comments looking for this. I was like, have I been being strict for no reason? Everyone was adding some hip hinge, but I try to not let my back angle change at all. Would like some clarity.
@@fyg2294 just choose one style and train that then later try a different variation. Strict is better for less overall fatigue in most cases, but with some hinge is better for traps and transfer to deadlift
@@fyg2294 it’s why I don’t really like any of them. Hard to tell when you’re progressing and when you’re cheating and also hard to not cheat as loads get heavier. I’m inclined to favor just starting more upright and then not changing the angle. When Yates himself teaches, that’s what he suggests. No movement of anything by arms and scaps. But he just starts and stays in the position that all those dudes in the vid eventually get to. I do think cheaty rows are more likely to lead to injury.
I'm inspired. Now I will make sure bent over rows are included 3x a week, including DB Pull Overs from all angles, Pendlay rows, DB side bends, seated z presses, and incline bench. My upper body will be a brick house
I’m 9-10 months in the gym & I’m up about 15 pounds. So far, my favorite workouts are overhead presses & reverse grip barbell row.(Just tried pendlay rows, I think I might start doing these instead of normal rows).
I appreciate this video. Ive been doing strictly Pendlay rows only for the past few 4 months thinking I was onto something...I think its time I go back to regular barbell rows 😅
@@patrickjulius7352 You don't normally float the weight on pendlays so you lose out on the stretch, plus you can't do as much weight as you could with bb rows with a little cheat in them. Heavy is good for the stretch.
I remember getting my Sears "Ted William's" Weight set, going through the booklet, and creating a routine of all the Back exercises. What was kind of cool was there were 3 types of BB rows: Regular Bent rows, "Incline Rowing Motion to Waist with a Curl Grip" (Yates rows) and "Incline Rowing Motion to Chest" (like Chest supported Incline Rows). Fun stuff. I was fortunate to read Bob Kennedy's stuff, and his emphasis on pulling the bar to the STOMACH for lats.
Both are for two different things lol. The deadlift is a lower body movement. People think it’s a back movement, because your back is weaker than your lower body, so you get a pump, because your entire back is being used as an isometric contractor to keep your spine from exploding. The row is for training your back through horizontal elbow, flexion and extension, which is different than doing pull ups.
That's why I always liked rows more - bc lower body is already trained with squats but I did want to train my back with the exact same intensity as well. But actually I can't use a lot of leg drive tbh bc of my anatomy (long femurs) - my hip has to sit up high and my back is almost horizotnal to the ground which is the only correct starting postion for long femurs or big guys in general. very small amount of leg drive here- my back always gets a pump while my legs are not even warmed up after my DL top set. hamstrings are taxed somewhat but I can do very heavy front squats after deadlifting but my back is very strong. I can dumbbell row almost my benchpress max.
I'm 52 and been lifting since my 20s,I squat every week and do plenty of compound free weight lifts. But I've recently been enjoying doing barbell rows until last week where I felt my spine pop. I was braced with straight lower back and was only using 70kg. Going to have to skip them from now on.
I pair bent rows with seal rows, treating the SR’s sort of like an accessory to the BR’s. I find the seal row variation offers all of the control/range of motion that my mind tells me the bent row lacks. Your mileage may vary.
Absolutely outstanding video! Highly insightful and informative. I love doing bent over rows and I always make sure to keep them in my training program at least once per week. They’re really fun! Bent over rows do wonders for my back size and strength. Thank you so much for all the amazing and super helpful videos! 🙏
wow ! and didn't you feel lower back hurting ? I know that when I want to do strict version like he shows, even with proper hip hinge, just hinders me, although I love rowing in general !
I row Practically every work out one way or the other barbell row. Always has been my favorite even when I didn’t know what I was doing or how effective it was when you said love affair with the bent over row I just shook my head because that’s what it’s been for me
Where I struggle is that and your bullmastiff program which I'm currently doing is my rear posterior chain is done after the back squats and the rdls and I find it really hard to keep myself stable to do the bent over rows.
@@black0ut_53 coleman can't walk, cailer woolam tore both his lats and his pec, Yates tore his biceps... I don't remember every name cited but maybe we can try to learn from other lifter's mistakes instead of calling it "bad luck". But it's your life 🤷♀
I still do backwork as a heavy primary. It translates to so much and it never seems to plateau. It helps for all sports, i was a swimmer for example. Back volume outside the pool helped condition for back volume in the pool.
I welcome some feedback here. So….I have always loved bent over barbell rows. I hurt my lower back a few years ago and it’s something that now comes and goes. When it comes…..I’m not worth a damn for a few days, can’t walk right, can’t stand up straight etc…. So I got to where I couldn’t do them anymore. I let myself get out of shape during the Covid nonsense and only recently got back to the gym about 6 months ago. Im feeling strong, looking better and to be honest seeing some results has made me proud of myself and kept me motivated. About A month or so ago I decided to give the exercise a try again. I feel like no matter how tight I flex my core, and even with low weight, I feel like any moment my back is gonna go out again. I really want to get back to doing these as I realize the benefit. I’m going to turn 50 years old in a few months and I realize now more than ever that staying in shape is crucial if I wanna enjoy the years I have left. So my question is this… since it’s a disc issue in my back, is there any particular exercise(s) I can do to strengthen the area around my lower back to get me to where I feel I can do the row safely? Or…..and I mean this….Am I just being a pu$$y and letting my fear of the possible re-aggravating of the injury mind fu@k myself?
i want to get a fast 50m freestyle. An old coach said get as strong as possible in the gym. Are there any strong men who do a lot of swimming and talk about best exercises? i'm guessing a normal program what ever that is would do the job. This looks awesome. I have the equipment at home already!!
RDLs, SLDLs and Bent Rows with an axle bar and no straps has really made my upper back and grip much stronger. Plus I think it helps my recovery a bit since less weight has to be used for obvious reasons.
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These fucking body standards man, I'm never going to achieve that level of back hair as a natty - time to hop on the Minoxidil body wash
I'm the opposite and love it.
I wish I could migrate my back thicket to my pate :/ The ear hairs can fuck of somewhere else, too.
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What sucks about being hairy as a Neanderthal is that it obscures everything so it takes harder to see how ripped you actually are. It is funny though to look fluffy before getting into a pool and climbing out looking like you just lost several pounds.
Bromley is setting unrealistic back hair standards. I’ll never look like Chewbacca viewed from behind, no matter how hard I try.
I bet you could get implants.
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@@espenstoro He might aswell have taken a picture of my back too haha
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Find myself agreeing with you on basically everything as far as training ideas go. This channel is a gem 💎
Same here. Bent rows is really where ego idiots can be spotted as if is really one of those movement where you can double your weight if you do it poorly. I hide to do my bent rows because I want to do them well.
so then this channel is useless to you... you might be better off finding a channel that challenges your views so you could either strengthen them or change them in forced ponderence
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Bent rows rock. They have definitely blown my back up. Hugely underrated movement.
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I think what makes rows tricky for us is that maintaining form is very difficult.
In bench you take it down to the chest, pause, then push. In squats you go down until you hit depth, then you go up.
In a row, the act of exerting effort pulls you out of position. It takes a lot of practice compared to other main strength movements.
Squats do the same though. If you don't keep your core tight and have good mobility in the legs and hips, you'll always put pressure on the low back. That's the difficulty! Same here, it seems, where posterior chain stability is paramount. If you're bent, though, you're doing a lot of the same things you're doing in a squat already.
@@Tiger74147it might just be me personally, but squats feel very well coordinated. I’m wedging myself between the bar and the ground. I don’t have to worry about how much force I’m applying at each joint.
In rows; I feel like there is a very fine line between activating the hips enough to keep my shoulders from falling down, but not so much that I’m “power rowing”. And I think that just requires a lot of technique and practice… it’s a hard lift.
@@suburiboy"wedging" in squats isn't good. It means you have lack of hip mobility and compensating with more strain than needed on your lower back. You should warm up before squats with hip and knee related mobility exercise.
I’m starting to think the top 1/3 portion of rows should just be trained with isometrics.
@@elbowstrike not just rows, most back exercises benefit from a 2 second or above isometric. Only issue of isometrics is forearm soreness/fatigue
Thanks!
This is for me proof, of individual differences and finding what works for you. I agree that barbell rows are foundational. They just never built my back, probably because I have scoliosis. I used and sometimes even spammed them for years, yet I never saw a difference in my back looks or strength. Took me five years of being stubborn doing them, but once I switched to an isolation approach, my back growth took off and still is 3 years later. I'll definitely revist them sometime in the future, though.
Edit: My old best was 145x10 from a deficit. I recently started rowing again and beat that by two reps. Got 185x3, which I never did before
Try them with a trap bar instrad of a barbell
How heavy did you get up to on the bb row?
Were you training deadlift too?
@Thleta 145lbx10 deadstop from a deficit.
@yoeyyoey8937 Yeah, but I kept heavy deadlify frequency low. 1 time every 10 days or so. I was trying to use barbell rows as the main back exercise and rowed on days I wasn't deadlifting.
Off gear, fat, tired from kids, and trying to get strong: this is something I can relate to. Thank you for the video!
Woolam got me to English Row, Bromley got me to Kroc Row. Now I like to incorporate partial SLDL with a pause, followed with paused row, and a slow slow eccentric
Does the load line up for you? I feel like my SLDL is way higher than my row
An English row? I’ve never heard of that, are you talking about using body english?
I used to do barbell row with the higher angle, had 275 going and I felt like a beast.
I took some time off and came back doing strict instead and now struggle a bit with even 185, but I still feel I'm getting a better workout.
My favorite exercise by far.
Always row after deadlift. The bar sits there, I've taken off some weight after my top set, it's ready to go. I also follow that with cable row, to "save my lower back". Strict form and deep stretch stuff. It's all progressing very nicely, and I'm more stable on the bench with some built in back support.
Always deadlift first then row. Rowing will seem easy after deads
idk my core is pretty friend after DL's and I struggle to keep a good posture and good core bracing. I usually end up having to program rows on days that I don't deadlift.
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Great video. I started bent over rows but my legs were too weak and was feeling it in my knees so i've been building legs up over the past 5 weeks with deep squats and after seeing this video i'm going to get on the bent over rows tomorrow. Thanks for the motivation!
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Gotta pull wide to get wide
row to grow. row to grow. row to grow.
@@skaterock420100 half reps a day make the gains stay?
You could add a Kg to your back squat just by shaving
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Nah that’s Fking hilarious
I thought I was gonna have to go under the knife which really sucked because I can't afford health insurance. But I was switching arms every thirty seconds driving and learn to sleep on my back and if I rolled over in my sleep I'd wake up in tears my shoulders were so bad. I had to switch to all safety squats bars.
Get ups, band work, massage guns would all numb it for a few minutes but I'd leave in more pain than when I left.
Finally it was your fellow UA-cam strongman Brian Ahlsrue that said if you can bench it you should be able to row it. I headed his advice and have zero shoulder pain now. All my lifts are up and I don't have any more shoulder pain and could go back to sleeping on my side.
How did that advice help? What did you change to fix your issue? Its not clear from your comment...
he is saying his shoulder issues were caused by an imbalance between his chest and back,,, so working on his rows and bringing it up to match his benching strength corrected the imbalance@@charlieross4674
@@charlieross4674it’s pretty obvious
@@charlieross4674he got his back as strong as his chest. If he benches 315 he rows 315 or somewhere around there
wtf are you yapping about bot
Great editing, good humor and very educational for a beginner like me who doesn’t know all the intricacies about weightlifting. Thanks .
Been doing it for months now, it gave me better results than pull-ups which was wild to me
Just found your channel, have to say absolutely dig it! Love the fact youre not some kid or pretty boy on gear - but rather a grown ass man with experience, and a real life as a parent/husband!! Well done, man! I think a lot of us (folk who used to powerlift/train hard) reach a point where the six pack will fade and we get that heavier 'big dude' look. I broke my neck in 2014 (c4-c7 replaced with bars and mesh) and prior to that trained like a zealot. My point is: learning tricks by experienced people like yourself have kept me lifting and relatively in shape even after the big 54.
Thanks to Bromley bent rows filled that missing piece of my life.
This video changed my mind about rows,I am doing my pull-ups and deadlifts but I was doing cable rows…tried to do a real bent over row with a wider grip and I felt my upper back work way more than in cable rows
@@beburs same here
Barbell rows have been my favorite movment from the beginning
I added this in my program back in December. Because of that, my deadlift pr is now an rpe 5.
Definitely agree about SBDOR. My program only had the first four and left me with an underwhelming flat back. I worked rows in and every other lift got better.
Been doing 5/3/1 for a while now, set up as a Bro Split, with Rows as the primary back movement. Only difference is I set up the rep scheme for it as 8/5/3, cause the heavier weights wreck my joints. So my work out looks like:
Bench 5/3/1, chest/tricpes hypertrophy, 20 min peloton
Squat 5/3/1, squat/quad hypertrophy, 20 min heavy bag
Row 8/5/3, back/lat/biceps hypertrophy, 20 min farmer carries
OHP 5/3/1, shoulder hypertrophy, 20 min peloton
Deadlift 5/3/1, posterior chain/hammies hypertrophy, 20 min heavy bag
Been rocking like that for about four months and it's been fantastic.
recently hit 225lbs on bent over rows (the right kind) and I can confirm as an endorser of this exercise, my back is wide as hell. I don't even powerlift but the strength gained from this exercise carries over to so many other aspects of my training as well as everyday stuff. don't skip the bent over row gentlemen
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It’s like the most honesty I’ve ever seen here
I love hearing someone express their love for a movement. It's contagious!
I swear
Bent rows light up my lower back to the point i cant actually focus on the movement. Any ideas?
i started doing smith bent over rows a few months ago and I haven’t stopped they feel amazing
😂. Had to pause within the first 30 sec and give a like. Greatest UA-cam intro ever.
The dead-row totally blew up my back. Started smashing PBs, got thicker and my legs got stronger. Having some deadlift action break the inertia of the heavy bar feels safer on my back than going from a dead hang leaning forward.
Bent rows have seriously increased my back hair. Great video from oz❤️
I so needed this video!!
Congrats on your child! I'm so happy you've been blessed with them.
I’m new to your channel mate
But I like your stuff, no bullshit and solid advice
Thank you
I love bent rows, but funny enough it was my elbow that made me stop doing them and not my back or recovery or whatever. I got pretty bad tennis elbow on my non dominant side from spamming heavy bent rows, even though I was using straps and had worked up in weight slowly over time. It's been 4-5 months and I'm finally mostly recovered, but I don't think I'll be doing them again anytime soon.
Smith machine has been a lifesaver to still hit that pattern. Since the bar doesn't roll in your hands, it doesn't aggravate my elbow, and I'm mostly doing them with an underhand grip since there's very little stress on my biceps tendon using the Smith.
I guess you could argue I need to be doing more direct forearm work to prevent issues in the future, and you're not wrong.
I'm glad this finally has a name. Been doing this for years. You can be more explosive as far as force curve goes because you can stop the bar with your chest
Gongrats on parenthood! Greatest feeling ever to hold your child, isn’t it? Thanx for the informative video. Was wondering, how can I incorporate bent rows with pull-ups? My workout is minimal: squats, shrugs, pull-ups, dips, RDLs, hyperextensions, incline sit-ups; all done in one session, 2X/week. Deadlift and incline sit-ups every 3rd workout. Thanx!
Experiment, usually whichever one you want to get better at should go first. Personally I’m so good at pull-ups that I do them first cause otherwise my lats take over and I don’t get as much stim on the rest of my back if I don’t do pull-ups first
I'm so happy to see some love for my favourite back exercise.
From the moment I tried bent over rows I fell in love with them!
Enjoy your video on Bent over row , very informative ,Bent over row is one of my Main lift on back day
Aw man. On the day I skipped bent over rowing?
Turn around and get back in there then.
A timely video for your benefit.
Great timing i was 100kg on april 120 kg now and conditioning myself to 95 while pursuing strength goals after the this objective.
The vast majority of the clips you had in the first half of the video did rows with 45 deg angle (more upright like Yates) than fully bent over OR if they started fully bent over, they were definitely up to Yates angle by the time they finished the rep.
Different styles of rows
Searched through the comments looking for this. I was like, have I been being strict for no reason? Everyone was adding some hip hinge, but I try to not let my back angle change at all. Would like some clarity.
@@fyg2294 just choose one style and train that then later try a different variation. Strict is better for less overall fatigue in most cases, but with some hinge is better for traps and transfer to deadlift
@@fyg2294 it’s why I don’t really like any of them. Hard to tell when you’re progressing and when you’re cheating and also hard to not cheat as loads get heavier. I’m inclined to favor just starting more upright and then not changing the angle. When Yates himself teaches, that’s what he suggests. No movement of anything by arms and scaps. But he just starts and stays in the position that all those dudes in the vid eventually get to. I do think cheaty rows are more likely to lead to injury.
@@patrickjulius7352 This was my conclusion, as well. I replaced rows with weighted pull ups, but I'm just an old man trying to stay strong, enough.
Watched for the exercise info, subscribed for the in depth easy to process explanation!
A good barbell row looks beautiful. It requires just the right amount of body English.
I'm inspired. Now I will make sure bent over rows are included 3x a week, including DB Pull Overs from all angles, Pendlay rows, DB side bends, seated z presses, and incline bench. My upper body will be a brick house
I do deadlifts 3 times a week with 80% 1RM on 2 days and 1 day with light load but more reps. Due to this I do seated rows instead of bent rows.
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These damn edits are next level lol
This guy has alot of informative videos. Enjoy his humor as well.👍
I’m 9-10 months in the gym & I’m up about 15 pounds. So far, my favorite workouts are overhead presses & reverse grip barbell row.(Just tried pendlay rows, I think I might start doing these instead of normal rows).
Well, he's convinced me! Great video
This was my go to exercise during teen years...
The intro 😂😂
Bro you got a new sub.
I appreciate this video. Ive been doing strictly Pendlay rows only for the past few 4 months thinking I was onto something...I think its time I go back to regular barbell rows 😅
what was the downside of pendlays? I like them but with a slower eccentric.
@@patrickjulius7352 You don't normally float the weight on pendlays so you lose out on the stretch, plus you can't do as much weight as you could with bb rows with a little cheat in them. Heavy is good for the stretch.
would never have thought a float beats a stop on the row. learn something new every day
not everyone agrees.
Yeah it is similar to an RDL and a conventional deadlift.
I remember getting my Sears "Ted William's" Weight set, going through the booklet, and creating a routine of all the Back exercises. What was kind of cool was there were 3 types of BB rows: Regular Bent rows, "Incline Rowing Motion to Waist with a Curl Grip" (Yates rows) and "Incline Rowing Motion to Chest" (like Chest supported Incline Rows). Fun stuff. I was fortunate to read Bob Kennedy's stuff, and his emphasis on pulling the bar to the STOMACH for lats.
Yep..... I traded trad deads for RDLS on leg day and added barbell rows on back day.
Amen brother ...love the bentover rows
always lliked them more than deadlifts actually ^^ Now I like both.
Both are for two different things lol. The deadlift is a lower body movement. People think it’s a back movement, because your back is weaker than your lower body, so you get a pump, because your entire back is being used as an isometric contractor to keep your spine from exploding.
The row is for training your back through horizontal elbow, flexion and extension, which is different than doing pull ups.
That's why I always liked rows more - bc lower body is already trained with squats but I did want to train my back with the exact same intensity as well.
But actually I can't use a lot of leg drive tbh bc of my anatomy (long femurs) - my hip has to sit up high and my back is almost horizotnal to the ground which is the only correct starting postion for long femurs or big guys in general. very small amount of leg drive here- my back always gets a pump while my legs are not even warmed up after my DL top set. hamstrings are taxed somewhat but I can do very heavy front squats after deadlifting but my back is very strong. I can dumbbell row almost my benchpress max.
Was literally just think about the first time I seen that video of Woolam doing these heaving rows. Blew my mind
I'm 52 and been lifting since my 20s,I squat every week and do plenty of compound free weight lifts. But I've recently been enjoying doing barbell rows until last week where I felt my spine pop. I was braced with straight lower back and was only using 70kg. Going to have to skip them from now on.
sorry to hear that man. what kind of rows did you rely on previously, up until now, for back work? or has it always been bent over rows?
I pair bent rows with seal rows, treating the SR’s sort of like an accessory to the BR’s. I find the seal row variation offers all of the control/range of motion that my mind tells me the bent row lacks. Your mileage may vary.
Absolutely outstanding video! Highly insightful and informative. I love doing bent over rows and I always make sure to keep them in my training program at least once per week. They’re really fun! Bent over rows do wonders for my back size and strength. Thank you so much for all the amazing and super helpful videos! 🙏
Bent rows save so much time in the gym bc it's like all the puliing & rowing cable machines combined. Thank you Bromley & good luck with the parenting
Appreciate it my man!
how do we improve our flexibility to bend over properly
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I just started using straps for the first time and added 45lbs to my heavy semi strict row in a week 😮 3 sessions
Dude you are a beast!..... I could never work out in a wool sweater like you do bro?.... Just saying.
Deficit bent rows when I can be near parallel with the ground and still get that stretch are one of my favorite movements
This is exactly how I started to row about a year ago and it transformed by body. You can’t lift as much weight but your back gets wide af
wow ! and didn't you feel lower back hurting ? I know that when I want to do strict version like he shows, even with proper hip hinge, just hinders me, although I love rowing in general !
@@cameronvallejo4157 if you're lower back hurts because of rowing, then that's a sign you need to strengthen your lower back.
I row Practically every work out one way or the other barbell row. Always has been my favorite even when I didn’t know what I was doing or how effective it was when you said love affair with the bent over row I just shook my head because that’s what it’s been for me
4:58 jumpscared the shit out of me lmao
Congratulation with the baby
everybody wants to be a bodybuilder, but nobody wants to lift those heavy ass weights!
So dam true !
@@patrisiaszatmari2122 yeah buddy
are people that weak minded? lifting heavy is the best
@@ThorKAH it is just a funny saying from Ronnie Coleman.. .i think most wants to lift heavy, it is the diet that is the problem.
Thanks brother, I needed this!
Bro, the ad they threw on 'the fattest fitness influencer's video was "The Piggy Pouch?" lmao
Squat, deadlift, bench, barbell row, OHP. Done
Where I struggle is that and your bullmastiff program which I'm currently doing is my rear posterior chain is done after the back squats and the rdls and I find it really hard to keep myself stable to do the bent over rows.
also, I think barbell rows go great together with pullups
Ronnie had the best back of all time and he did rows with 5 plates for 8.
24 years later and nobody has matched that.
and he cant walk no more
@@Jean-Pierre.Hortefeuxnot because of the rows probably
@@Jean-Pierre.Hortefeuxprobably just a combination of bad luck and a ridiculous unwillingness to admit when he wasn’t feeling good
You don't watch Strongman then. 495 is toy weight with the top pros. Have seen 600+ lbs on rows.
@@black0ut_53 coleman can't walk, cailer woolam tore both his lats and his pec, Yates tore his biceps... I don't remember every name cited but maybe we can try to learn from other lifter's mistakes instead of calling it "bad luck".
But it's your life 🤷♀
I still do backwork as a heavy primary. It translates to so much and it never seems to plateau. It helps for all sports, i was a swimmer for example. Back volume outside the pool helped condition for back volume in the pool.
2:10 most real shit ive seen in a while
Hands down best fitness channel
How u don’t got more subscribers is crazy, dis vid was hella informative. Tough💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽
I welcome some feedback here. So….I have always loved bent over barbell rows. I hurt my lower back a few years ago and it’s something that now comes and goes. When it comes…..I’m not worth a damn for a few days, can’t walk right, can’t stand up straight etc…. So I got to where I couldn’t do them anymore. I let myself get out of shape during the Covid nonsense and only recently got back to the gym about 6 months ago. Im feeling strong, looking better and to be honest seeing some results has made me proud of myself and kept me motivated. About A month or so ago I decided to give the exercise a try again.
I feel like no matter how tight I flex my core, and even with low weight, I feel like any moment my back is gonna go out again. I really want to get back to doing these as I realize the benefit. I’m going to turn 50 years old in a few months and I realize now more than ever that staying in shape is crucial if I wanna enjoy the years I have left.
So my question is this… since it’s a disc issue in my back, is there any particular exercise(s) I can do to strengthen the area around my lower back to get me to where I feel I can do the row safely? Or…..and I mean this….Am I just being a pu$$y and letting my fear of the possible re-aggravating of the injury mind fu@k myself?
Probably the last thing you said is true, but at 50... Who knows what might happen. But I say if you have good insurance, then go for it lol.
@@kirihara147 I appreciate the honesty.
@@carlmay9532 hey good luck with that brother.
"You don't solve lack of results with less work". 🔥. Bar
Thank you for being an honest influencer
i want to get a fast 50m freestyle. An old coach said get as strong as possible in the gym. Are there any strong men who do a lot of swimming and talk about best exercises? i'm guessing a normal program what ever that is would do the job. This looks awesome. I have the equipment at home already!!
The avatar of the guy saying “save your back with machines” has me dying 🤣
use open trap bar. put on ti’s trap back jumpin (live studio version)
RDLs, SLDLs and Bent Rows with an axle bar and no straps has really made my upper back and grip much stronger. Plus I think it helps my recovery a bit since less weight has to be used for obvious reasons.
It's not about the looks brother it's about the knowledge you share.
great content man
I watched this video and immediately started doing bent rows. A day later and my back is already hairier 😂😂
🤣🤣🤣
Feels good to see this video a couple days after hitting a 10 pound rep PR on rows.
I ignored your advice on strength programs and I'm currently "smolov"ing my bent rows 😊
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