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Instructions

• Hold your trunk tight and keep your back straight
• Hook a close grip row attachment over the bar
• Palms in
• Tuck your legs up
• Do not swing your body to assist the action
• Lift with your arms
• Raise your head to the bar - Don’t hit your head on the bar
• Squeeze your lats at the apex
• Lower yourself so your arms almost fully extend
• Alternative - Raise your head to the side of the bar, alternate the side for each rep

Muscles involved

• Trapezius
• Latissimus Dorsi
• Teres Major
• Rhomboids
• Posterior Deltoid
• Infraspinatus
• Biceps Brachii