But I CAN manage it, it just feels uncomfy in my lower back and my shoulder kind of hurts
Parker Reyes
>But I CAN manage it >it just feels uncomfy in my lower back and my shoulder kind of hurts
choose one and only one
Mason Davis
Well I mean I can get the weight up to where it is needed without doing some autistic form or swinging it with my entire back, but it does not feel comfortable. You get me?
Because Bent over barbell rows is a meme excersise. do tbar or dumbs if your gym has heavy enough dumbells
Henry Martin
Poooor fooorm. Like 37 fucking bazillion people said the same thing as you and totally shut up when they fucking retracted and depressed their fucking scapulae. Pls.
Gabriel Rodriguez
I'm omw to snap city right now. Can't sleep to much pain. Not sure what did it. I want even supposed to lift today fuark breeehssss see you on the other side
Jose Jenkins
>when they fucking retracted and depressed their fucking scapulae
How are you suppose to fucking pull with a retracted and depressed scapula???
Logan Rodriguez
With muscles, lower the weight
Joshua Phillips
It is literally impossible to pull with your lats with a retracted scapula. That makes absolutely no sense.
Do you also do cable rows with a retracted scapula?
Gabriel White
I think he mean that people dont pull weight far enough for retraction of scapula to happen.
What everyone here is trying to tell you is, lower the weight and practice form. We all know you are He-man and can lift a lot of weight on the row, but try practicing the form of the exercise before adding weight.
Lower the weight and add dumbell rows. Its obv u cant handle the weight if your shoulders give in.
Thomas Campbell
Yep I used to hate barbell rows too because I could never feel my lats activating and like you said my lower back hurt from it.
Let me ask you a question: when you pull the weight, try pulling it to your waist and squeezing your last as much as you can instead of your chest or stomach. This takes alot of pressure off of your lower back and will allow you to add more weight quickly. I literally went from 165 to 225 in like 3 weeks using this technique. It's how Dorian Yates does it
Brody Morris
what's the question?
Carson Clark
Lol. Its early bro and I'm hung over. Meant to ask you where on your body do you pull to on the row
Landon Thompson
If your lower back hurts try wearing a lifting belt.
Nathaniel Wright
if your lower back hurts try making sure your hip hinge is not a complete fuckup
Christopher Jones
>doing meme over rows >at all There is LITERALLY NO muscle that rows train that deadlifts and pullups don't. Do your deadlifts Do your pullups Don't row at all Congratulations, you've made it. You're welcome
Charles Russell
kys
Nolan Johnson
no u
Isaac Young
Stop using barbells for rowing.
Dumbells, cables, t-bar are all better.
Barbell =/= automatically superior.
James Cruz
chest supported t-bar literally GOAT
Christian Brown
weighted pullups are far superior, just progressively overload. once you can rep 100lb added easily you will see the beginnings of a fuarked back. i can rep 30-50 poons depending on the variation and if its thumbless or not, and the difference in my back compared to when i could only do 9 unweighted chins is significant.
Gabriel Jenkins
lower the weight you retard start with 5 lbs and work up 5% every session eventually 100 lbs will feel the same as 5 lbs did that very first day
Lucas Sanders
THAT MEANS YOU NEED TO LOWER THE WEIGHT EVERYTHING IS INTERTWINED MAN ALL YOUR MUSCLES CREATE A FRAME YOUR FRAME CANT HANDLE IT SO LOWER THE FUCKING WEIGHT MORON
Brayden Morgan
How do I not hate bent over rows? If I go heavy on them my form suffers. I start to lean back and it becomes more of a shrug than a row. And if I decrease the weight so I can perfect my form I end up with a weight I can pull for like 16 reps. And when I try to increase the weight my form still suffers.
Cooper Long
try deadlifting the bar up first then lowering it to find tension in your glutes and hamstrings
Cameron Butler
Replace with dumbbell rows and move on.
Alexander Lewis
Spread your legs more and fan your toes no more than 45 degrees. Start with a weight thats manageable.
Liam Hernandez
op here, what do you mean by this? I pretty much just pull my elbows back and pull it to my hips. Idk I'm really not getting it doesn't feel as smooth as any youtube video for some reason
Gavin Lee
Try reverse grip. This helped me. The other grip made my fingers numb and elbow pop due to muh tendonitis fml.
Justin James
Hey OP don't know if you're still here but look up videos on Dorian Yates teaching the barbell row.
In pic related, this is what the typical person doing a row looks like - they pull the bar to their lower chest/upper stomach. The black line I drew is across the waist, the point you should be pulling towards and making contact with during every rep.
Always remember to keep tension on your core, keep your shoulders locked back, and a neutral spine. Pull to your waist and squeeze, then let the negative down slowly.
Even doing 3x5 of this, I can really feel my lats getting engaged.
Grayson Cook
Then do progressive overload? Lol.
3x5-8 bruh. Choose a weight that's doable and add weight slowly
Asher Perez
I did man.
Still not getting it. That IS where I pull to btw.
Should I be letting my shoulders get pulled down kind of like cable rows? Or should they be more back?
Leo Carter
you need to train your body first to fucking be able to handle those weights you fucking idiot.
barbell row is something which you should start in 6 months to a year. side latereals and fly pull ups should be your main focus. After that bent in side latereals, fly pull ups and good shoulder work outs. After you have control over them you do dumbell rows in a good form to get yourself used to it.