Jim,
you always recommend rowing, but in your Bodyweight Assistance Template you didn’t include the inverted row. I also never saw you mention it in articles or your books. I was just wondering what your opinion is about them?
I don’t have dumbells in my homegym and have low back issues with the barbell row. I really like supersetting these with dips in a full body routine and I can load them with my weight vest.
Thanks
not Jim, but my 2cents…
I super set them with all my bench sets and love it.
I’ve worked up to elevating my feet to parallel but not added weight yet.
I switch up the grip and pull to different areas (chest, sternum, belly, ).
Its a great movement for me and it gets in some stability work while saving the low back.
Whats not to like?
There is a lot to like. Going to make homemade rings to hang from the bar to superset with squat worksets. During warmup I do pull aparts and face pulls, then the inverted row during squat and finaly chinups during presses.
Thanks for the idea to switch grip and pull to different areas! Do you move your feet support back and forth for that?
Yep. Just move the stool, bench, whatever in towards you and set up further into the rack to get the bar lower.
I’ve been using a Swiss bar to get a neutral grip.
The rings are a killer addition. There is so much you can do with them.
[quote]Willem85 wrote:
Thanks for the idea to switch grip[/quote]
Another idea is to switch between snatch grip and clean grip. More rear delt in the former, more lat in the latter. Pun intended.
I don’t care to use a weight vest with inv rows, it seems to get in the way at the top of the movement and limit range of motion. So, instead of adding weight, I add a pause at the top. A long pause causes me to have to drop reps, though, so I’ll mix sets of paused reps and continuous reps so I’m getting the best of both worlds.
[quote]Willem85 wrote:
Jim,
you always recommend rowing, but in your Bodyweight Assistance Template you didn’t include the inverted row. I also never saw you mention it in articles or your books. I was just wondering what your opinion is about them?
I don’t have dumbells in my homegym and have low back issues with the barbell row. I really like supersetting these with dips in a full body routine and I can load them with my weight vest.
Thanks[/quote]
They are fine - I never really think about inverted rows too much though. One thing we did years ago was do a set of chins for 15 reps and then finish off with inverted rows to failure.
It’s not going to make/break your training but it was fun to do.
Some great ideas to get better at these. I’m not yet using the weight vest to be honest, but have the option in the future. Maybe better to do all the variations… I’m glad I started this thread!