T-Bar Row
oec:t-bar-row
A bent-over compound pulling exercise using a pivoted barbell or dedicated machine to build back thickness and upper-body pulling strength.
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Also called: Rowing, T-bar, Barbell T-Bar Row, Landmine T-Bar Row, tbar row, t bar
How to do it
Setup
- Straddle the T-bar apparatus or landmine barbell with feet shoulder-width apart.
- Hinge at your hips with knees slightly bent until your torso is angled around 45 degrees relative to the floor.
- Grasp the handles firmly with arms fully extended and your spine braced in neutral alignment.
Movement
- Pull the weight upward toward your upper abdomen or lower chest by driving your elbows back and retracting your shoulder blades.
- Squeeze your back musculature hard at the peak of the contraction without changing your torso angle.
- Lower the weight smoothly under control until your arms are fully extended and your lats stretch.
- Repeat for the desired number of repetitions.
Breathing
Inhale and brace before initiating the pull, and exhale as you complete the concentric phase or slowly during the descent.
Cues
- Drive your elbows toward your hips.
- Keep your chest proud and spine flat.
- Pull with your back, not your biceps.
Common faults
- Using excessive hip thrust and torso swing to heave the weight up.
- Reduce the load and keep your hip hinge and torso angle strictly stationary throughout the set.
- Rounding the lumbar spine under load.
- Brace your abdominals and maintain a neutral spine with active hamstring tension.
- Cutting the range of motion short at the bottom or top.
- Allow full arm extension at the bottom for a deep stretch and pull until the handles reach the torso.
Safety
- Ensure the pivot point of the bar is securely anchored before lifting.
- Maintain a neutral spine under load to protect the lower back.
Muscles
Joints
- Shoulder: Extension
- Shoulder blade: Retraction, Downward rotation
- Elbow: Flexion
- Lumbar spine: Isometric stabilization
- Hip: Isometric stabilization
Details
- Movement
- Horizontal pull, Hip hinge, Pull
- Modality
- Hypertrophy, Strength
- Mechanics
- compound
- Force
- pull
- Laterality
- bilateral
- Kinetic chain
- open
- Level
- intermediate
- Equipment
- Plate-loaded machine or Barbell
- Record
- Repetitions and Load
- Load
- external, total
Related
- variation of Barbell Bent-Over Row
- substitute for Barbell Bent-Over Row
- substitute for Dumbbell Bent-Over Row
Sources
- wger: Rowing, T-bar, by wger.de (CC-BY-SA-3.0)
- wger: T-Bar row, by novadani (CC-BY-SA-4.0)
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