I wouldn't call any kind of row a no-no really. The whole thing about Yates rows is the hype about Yate's huge back with them. What I'm talking about here is not about hypertrophy per se. But Personally I have found yates rows to be more of trap movement. The range of motion is tiny. Functionally they're probably pretty good for you. When I've done them I usually did another row also prior to them. According to how much volume I was doing I might half the volume between them.

One main thing I have found is to not always do rows off the floor. For one thing when you do that you're getting a good bit of movement from thoracic extension (upper mid back) and after a while that can take a toll. According to the individual at least in the long run. Some thoracic rounding and extension is okay (sometimes when I deadlift, for instance) but the spine was definitely never meant to be that kind of continual fulcrum.

Maybe if your arms are long enough you don't get a lot of upper back rounding by you get a lot of excessive stretching of the scap retractors which again takes it's toll. Remember the scapular retraction is what rowing is all about. But if you continually do a lot of passive protraction and then retraction it's going to be a bad scene sooner or later. It's not a whole lot different then doing dumbell flyes by using mega heavy dumbells that pull your arms all the way down before beginning the movement, i.e. you put you shoulders in a vulnerable position and then you initiate a movement. In the case with the rows what I'm talking about is a continually passive stretch of the fibers involved just before a violent contraction. A little bit of that might acutally be a good thing. A lot of it continually is going to result in a weakened rather than strengthened muscle. So the message is of course switch it up! If you've been doing rows off the floor for long time, which you have, then do something different.

On the bench press why don't you put in dumbell presses on upper one and the CGBP in upper two in that case?

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If you act sanctimonious I will just list out your logical fallacies until you get pissed off and spew blasphemous remarks.