Know Your Rows: Bent Over Row vs Pendlay Row 

Know know know your rows

Thanks for explaining without a 20 minute video

Needed a quick how to and this was perfect! Thank you

I’m still trying to get the form right without looking ridiculous. Great video 💯

Clear and concise, love it

Form looks impeccable body looking strong

It’s the pendlay rows for me.

fantastic, concise and accurate. nice vid.

thank you bro 🙏🏿 adding this to my strength and explosiveness workout

I'm switching to Pend. Rows next week. Bent over rows are too rough on my lower back

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"What you Row is what you Know" - Geoffrey Verity Schofield

Is it okay to also go a bit explosively on the barbell row? I can't actually hold the barbell against my chest unless I lower the weight a lot. Otherwise, I have to use the inertia from my pull to make it briefly touch my chest. But I worry about whether I might be underworking whichever muscle closes that final inch (God knows I'm terrible at back anatomy lol)

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Me like this explanation

Deficit pendlay row also gives a big stretch.

I’ve never done Pendley Rows but I’ll give it a try,,, the video made me prefer Pendley until I reached the end of the video when Marcus says Pendley is for strength and Bentover Row is for hypertrophy!

The rock says, know your row

I tend to rest pause with bent over rows … till near failure count 10 secs then pendlay rows till failure …… biggest back pump

I do my rows like pend , I stand on extra weights to create the deficit

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Bent over rows helped my deadlift strength. I've never tried the pendlay row before. I'll have to give that a try

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Pendlay rows are so good....

Bent over rows are hard on core. So it’s better to build up that core strength using pendlay rows.

Serious question. So if the goal is to have time under tension wouldn’t the pendlay row be counter intuitive to breaking down/tearing the muscle fiber? Since once you put the weight down even for a second the tension is gone.

I do both rows using heavy weights. Sometimes underhand also. And he’s right pendlay rows build strength and explosiveness!

Do them from the floor like pendlays, but control the eccentric to the point where you barely touch the floor between reps. I got to 5 reps of 2 plates with 'normal' pendlays technique and barely felt them in my back, and generally disliked them. It was also hard to be really consistent with the form. Started doing them as strict as possible, pausing at the top for all sets except the last one, and just one plate was enough weight to light up my entire back like nothing before. I have also done the bodybuilding style and again, don't feel the, really dislike them. But the way I do them now, no other exercise can compete for back building, not even pull-ups because they do fuck-all for the spinal erectors

Great explanation! 👍 Thank you

What if you combine them from the floor but high torso?

Why not just add a controlled descent wouldn’t that increase hypertrophy in the pendlay row?

Pendlay row mostly works the rhomboids whilst bent over row is for upper back and does little for thicknesd

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I put my feet on cinder blocks for penalty rows. Constant tension and more stimulus on middle and upper back

Funny Glen Pendlay's name has carried on with that row variation since the early 2000s. Hes been given more fame to that row variation than is needed. Its just a deadstop reset start at the bottom. His name doesn't need to be there. How about doing one arm Dumbell rows the same manner then attaching your name to it. Noones done that yet

if you have short hamstrings, pendlay rows can be hard.

I’ve heard these described as the exact opposite

I can't do pendlay rows without banging my knees. Cuz long humerus.

Rows for the bros

Can I super set them?

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Bent over rows are king

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Dorian rows for ithe fellas like me who has not operated their inguinal hernias

Arnold Schwarzenegger classic

Where is the Meadows Row? RIP

D. Yates had the best lats and he did underhand.

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What about underhand grip?

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I like bent over rows but it’s a bad excessive choice. It’s hard to stay at that bent angle and most people will stress their lower back. It’s also a short range of motion and most people will overdo it to try and get a “full” ROM

That’s not a pendlay row bud

Pendlay is loud, and cuase of this, banned from the gyms

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The major difference between pendlay and bb row is the place where you try to pull. With pendlay - chest, with bb row - stomach. Both your variation are bb row. It has nothing to do with angle. If we use your logic then Arnold did pendlay row and Yates did bb row. But they both did bb row and none of them ever performed pendlay row

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BENT OVER ROWS,U COULD NEVER MISS WIT THEM,LOOK AT THE GREATS,RONNIE,LEE,DORIAN N ARNOLD ALL DID N RECOMMEND BENT OVER ROWS FOR ULTIMATE BACK THICKNESS, FACXXXX!!!

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