Pendlay Row Non-Question :)

[H_T_]

He was doing banded box squats earlier and while I was rowing he was doing dead singles for 405, so he is not a clown.. but again he had never heard of or seen pendlay rows, so I took it with a grain of salt but a real big grain.

....for me, it always helped to have a little swing in my rows. i do them on a platform, cuz the weight would bang off of the floor and disrupt my rythym. that being said, once i get near 245-275, i do Starr/Pendlay rows. because there isn't need for rythym when doing 5 very deliberate reps. don't mind what that guy said. you could give him the example of pausing at the bottom of a bench or squat and ask him how bad that is? which it's not, it's the bouncing off of the sternum & dropping down quick and bouncing out of the hole which is bad...

 

[Kabeetz]

You guys rule. Thanks for the great info.

 

[Protobuilder]

People think everything will "ruin" your lower back. No. it won't. Not if you're trained for the movement and not getting completely stupid. You can condition your lower back to take a TON of work. AND it can even take ballistic movement!! Shock. Awe.

I'd be curious to know how much that guy rows. I wouldn't automatically write him off as an idiot, but an explosive bent row is recommended by a lot of S&C guys who know their shit. And we're talking 300, 400 pounds being rowed by these guys. . . .

 

[al420]

I just tell people they are an 'assistance' lift, just like jump shrugs (which I get looks on every single time, and loads of questions). If they ask for what I tell them I am a professional Ping Pong player.

 

[Crox]

Same thing has happened to me twice this month, its starting to piss me off. Its something about Pendlay rows, like moths to a flame.

Should be a big sign on the gym wall saying "Dont give advice to guys lifting alot more than you."

 

[thesuaveone]

It's at this time that I usually turn up my Ipod and ignore them. I am not their trainer, nor did I stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.

 

[Protobuilder]

Bent rows are right up there w/ deadlifts and anything behind the neck.

"You'll need a wheelchair and/or die immediately if you do that stuff!!! I read that somewhere."

Add in a bit of heft and some heavy weight on rows and people will shit their pants. Same way when BiggT walks out of the rack w/ 275+ on his back like he's squatting, and then locks it out overhead.

People are conditioned to believe their discs will explode with any kind of load applied. I'd say bent rows are one of the RAREST exercises in a gym. But they're in most of the old routines.

 

[H_T_]

and that why 90% of guys are built like a kite.