doubt re: bentover row

[^toby^]

so:
1 your knee is like a 90degree and you bend over 45degree?

Or

2 Knees slightly bent, your upper body bent fwd 90degree?

And you use yr lats to pull it up?

[The Duke]

2 Knees slightly bent, your upper body bent fwd 90degree?

And you use yr lats to pull it up?

Yup like that. And don't arch your back.

[morg]

I always do bentover rows with my head supported, which takes the strain off my lower back,also if you keep your head touching whatever you use, then you know you are not cheating the weight up but using the lats and arms to do all the work

[aliquis]

Standing elevated on something for enough ROM, eventually with a weight under the platform at the back for forward decline.

Upper body horisontal, lower back and stomach quite locked, lifting from floor as far as possible, pulling with elbows, put down weight between each rep.


Is how I do them nowadays, though there are probably benefits with less strict ones to, so I did a couple of "explosive deadlift shrugs" aka the most cheating barbell row I could imagine last back session to
(Ass still quite high, pulling the weight into the stomach but with lots of momentum from flooring the feets, straightening knees and hip.)


(The less strict variant probably allows like 2 times as much weight to be used =P)

[aliquis]

I would assume the more strict you go the less you can use your hams and glutes (and erectors?) so you'll be lifting with your upper back.

Also I assume the less wide grip you have, the further down your body you pull and the more stretch you have when starting the lift the more you'll be using your lats.

(And if you lift "with your hands" instead of "with your elbows" you will probably connect your arms more into the movement and flex biceps more and thereby not use your back as much (since you can't pull the bar thru your body ..))