I think it’s unnecessary. The ROM for the row isn’t changed. It only changes your hip placement. It might change the angle at which you’re pulling but I feel like I can do that on level ground.
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Might be a good idea if you have short legs/long arms
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Possibly for Kevin Durant, not so much for anyone else. If the BB is touching the floor during rows, your ROM is good to go, I would think.
I thought a pendlay row was a one arm row at the end of a t-bar machine?
That’s a Meadows row
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From my understanding… Pendlay row is a bent over barbell row from a dead stop.
As it was mentioned earlier, if the person has long arms it might beneficial. To make the Pendlay row as effective as possible your torso needs to be parallel to the floor. If you have long arms that might be impossible to do without a deficit.
I might actually see a benefit to doing rows where the torso is inclined forward below parallel by taking the traps completely out of the movement and shifting most of the work on the lats. But in the video, the guy doesn’t do that, in fact he raises his torso slightly, so he isn’t even truly parallel.
But the problem with the “inclined forward below parallel” set-uo is that it requires a ton of hip mobility and will put a lot of stress on the lower back.
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Have you ever tried doing them on a GHR machine? Like strap in and go down like you’re about to do a GHR, but pick up a barbell and row? Seems like if the person’s proportions are such that they can get a good ROM that it could help with lower back stress?
(PS I’ve never heard of or seen anybody do this, just spitballing. If this is new I call dibs on naming it after myself 
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Werner Gunthar (shot putter) used to do something similar, but he would combine the row with a back extension. Wrote about them like 10 years ago.
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Well damn, guess the world will have to wait for the invention of “humongous rows”
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