Your Bentover Row Style?

[Vortexx]

In the gym and on the internet i see the bent rows displayed in numerous ways, overhand. reverrse grip, small, wide grip , torso allmost upright or allmost perpendicular to the floor.....

I believe that these variations serve some purposes , but what type of bentover row you favour ?

 

[bishonen]

Wide overhand, about as close to parallel to the floor as I can keep my upper body, and pulling the bar to my waist.

That's just the way I learned it, and now it's one of my favorite lifts. Works my entire back, and burns! so! good!

 

[bignate73]

alternate between pronated wide grip and supinated close grip. not yates style. i pull directly against gravity, as near as perpendicular to my torso as possible.

 

[coolcolj]

I do Yates style, shoulder width grip to stomach, explosive with a moderate eccentric.

Helps my power cleans doing it like this

Since I ditched dumbell rows for these, my back has freaked out

 

[b fold the truth]

Yates style: close reverse grip, 70-80 degrees, to abs, continuous movement

 

[Vortexx]

Maybe I can make a carefull observation:

The people that are really into low rep "power movements", such as power cleans, people like Bfold and Coolcol seem to favour the Yates style, which is obvious as you keep torso more erect, allowing more weight to be used, where as the bb dudes trade using less weight due to torso leaning forward for a more direct "feel" in the back muscles.....

Both basic power movements and isolation movements have their place in bodybuilding. It's the gains in strength with the big raw movements that allows you to do a good amount of reps with a relatively heavy weight using an isolation movement, which is where things start to pay off.....


Maybe we could incorporate both styles into a back routine. Lets just drop t-bars rows and do 2 bent row in one workout, like

session 1-6:

5 * 5 yates style overhand grip, continous explosive up, moderate eccentric
12-10-8 torso perp. to floor reverse grip, hold peak contraction


session 7-12:

5 * 5 yates style reverse grip, continous explosive up, moderate eccentric
12-10-8 torso perp. to floor overhand grip, hold peak contraction


I think that should cover most bases....

I feel the T-bar is to bent rowing what pulldown machine is to weighted chin, The pulldown works and is easier, but chinning is the real thing....

 

[b fold the truth]

I have always done them Yates style...years before I ever did a power movement. I feel them a lot more. If I can use more weight, and it safer on my lower back, then surely more will grow...

B True