I don't like them because they limit the amount I can put on the bar. Plus, I feel it work my biceps and lower back way more than upper (which is where I want to focus on). I use JS Rows, which allows you to stay perfectly parallel to the floor for each rep, thus elliminating the use of my lower back. When I tried these "Yates" rows, but having my back 70 degrees makes it more of a spinal erector workout. I've had way too much success with JS Rows to ever consider anything else.
Have you ever tried JS?
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Rows look at an anatomy chart. if the scapula and upper arms are held in a constant position, shortening of the lats WILL result in arching of the middle and upper back. i AM NOT saying that the lats are primarily responsible for upper back flexion... what i am saying is that they can assist in this.
i also HAVE done EMG work on various different rowing techniques... and there is not doubt that rows performed as i describe [JS] them will activate the lats more completely than done any other way i have ever seen. i have done EMG work on a large quantity of people for rows... and ive always found that these kind of rows activate the lats most completely. and besides, even if you dont buy the fact that they activate the lats better, hell, you can always be content with the fact that your getting an erector workout.
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Last edited by Darkhorse; 11-07-2005 at 11:11 PM.
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