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Originally Posted by Chrisj22  I think Tall was referring to the barbell bent over row, mate.
Hammer rows are (generally) performed sitting on a seat with two handles in front of you which you pull to your chest (there's a chest pad on the seat).
I think that's what they're talking about anyway  |
Thats 100% corect. I do them one at a time. that way i can do peak contraction at the top of the rep.
my barbell row is 140kg its much less than on the plate loaded machine.
Hammer is my fav brand of machine, I wish more than anything that my gym would get the hammer chest press machine. Every time i goto muscleworks i have a play with that. Its just fantastic. This is a video of the machine im talking about
The big problem with the hammer row machiine is its very easy to max out the regular machine, I have seen videos of some that have 2 postions for plates so you could load it to 300kg but sadly the gym dosent have that.
see this guy has a even worse machine than at my gym. If you can imagine theres one masive pin sticking out of the side that can take 6 plates each side...
Once your sat back, depending on how your wired (leavers realy affect your peformance on hammer rows - and i have short arms) your laughing.
When you do it two handed sitting back down with a heavy enough weight to challange you after a point becomes difficult because like others have said it would be holding 300kg. its also where your most likely going to get injured becuase the chance to cheat is much greater.
As it stands its just for high reps now and going for peak contractions.
Im going to start doing good mornings/weighted hyper extentions on my heavy back day to thicken and get the back wider.