STOP doing BARBELL ROWS like this!

Alright, if your barbell rows look something like this, then you need to stop immediately. Whenever you’re training your back with emphasis on the traps and rhomboids, like a barbell row, you want to allow your thoracic spine to bend, or your upper back to round, to protract your scapula and stretch the target muscles during the eccentric. And if you just use the common baby rep momentum technique, where your back is nearly vertical, you’re just gonna be significantly limiting the range of motion, because you’re not allowing the muscles of your back to fully lengthen. Not to mention, using a technique like this makes it much more likely to ego lift and use momentum, making it harder to accurately gauge where true muscular failure actually occurs. So instead, drop the weight, bend over as far as you can without rounding your lumbar spine, or lower back, and either stand on top of something or use smaller plates, so that your upper back can round at the bottom without the weights hitting the floor. Once you can no longer tap your stomach with the barbell, that is when you’ve reached true muscular failure.

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[MaxEuceda]

If you actually want to grow your back, you need to fully lengthen and shorten the muscle fibers. And because nearly all of the muscle fibers in your back run horizontally, the best way to do this is by bending over 90 degrees.

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[honeybee]

Max really is the only guy who can say he gets taller when he sits down 👀🎂

[xRiskx]

3rd time bros has shown his MASSIVE personality 👹

[fatalgaming]

Needed this video. Tried Barbell deadlifting today, and it just felt off the whole lift. Was doing baby reps, and not bent over enough. Thank you!

[camerontroscianiec]

Barbell rows are tough af dude. I'm still a newbie and even just doing the bar with proper form is hard for me. Thanks for the advice

[anxiousmindmusic]

Pendlay rows can remedy this issue too.

[evrtmorets]

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[SpiritusFrumenti]

The bent over row he is doing is actually a pendlay row which is a row OFF the ground. To be THAT bent over and keep constant tension on the back by NOT dropping the weight down looks like snap city for me. It may work for him, but not for me 100% I do bent over row like everyone else, knees bent, shoulders blades retracted, back straight and torso forward. Works just fine. Pendlay rows are great and i do those too.

[bornagain]

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[tainted_angel]

This is actually very helpful thank you. I’ve only started lifting weights recently and this is something I didn’t know about.

[ow_oso]

Arnold, Franco, Mentzer, and pretty much all golden era body builders did their rows like this. These and pull ups will work wonders bro.

[random.med.student]

Max, I've been following you for quite a while, and I have to say, you have become really built, everything is coming together and your physique looks carefully crafted

[Major.Tom.]

Yes! Thanks for setting the record straight on this one! Subscribed 🙏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[morecharacterswithamix]

I get the idea behind bending over far enough to be parallel to the ground. But this limits the potential to overload because the lower back is compromised. I think a little more upright so that bar is to the mid knee is fine as long as it is pulled hard without changing the angle of the back. And of course lowering down slowly. To manage fatigue of lower back, I been doing dumbbell rows instead.

[harris]

Be careful with your lower back loading. If you are training amy variation of deadlifts on a regular basis, its important to regulate how much volume you allow your lower back to sustain during the rest of your workouts. This technique can be incredibly taxing on your lower back.

[turhaturpa]

yes the last one very good. dr. mike taught it to me

[vadepierce]

Love that he uses his own old videos to show the wrong way to do the lift😂 always good to be improving your technique and form. Love this guy’s cake...
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[abkonk]

On the torso verticality and bar touching tummy- depends on the person, depends on the muscle you're trying to target!

[cxnimel]

A cool ill do it the right way apparently, but cannot bent over that much. Thanks for the info!

[joaopedrosa]

everybody gangsta until ronnie coleman does everything this guy says it's wrong and then gets the biggest back in history