Thanks for the pic and video, I have seen them. I understand how to round the upperback/shoulders while keeping the lower back arched but that video seems weird. Rather than get a strength with the weight at the bottom of the movement he just puts it down, then rolls his shoulders forward lol. I don’t think that would do anything beneficial and unless I’m wrong the guy designed it to have you get a stretch by rounding the upper back with the weight right?
Yes – hopefully, not putting it to bluntly, but since you mention it – you’re wrong. The weight is fully set down in Pendlay Rows.
That does not mean that the muscles aren’t stretched and extended to essentially exactly the same position as if the bar were held, for example, some small fraction of inch off the ground. Except that actually the hands are extended that small fraction of an inch yet further down.
Don’t know what you found “lol”, really.
ok guys taking into account the Pendlay row suggestion and the chest supported rowing suggestion I decided to try doing a BB row with my chest supported on a bench. I did try Pendlay row for a few sets and felt a lot of strain in my lower back
- YouTube the quality is terrible but you can at least see what I’m talking about. What do you think? So far I’m liking it because I can keep form constant (just have to keep my chest on the bench) and have a point to gauge a full rep (hitting the bottom of the bench).