Back Up Your Bench Press With Chest Supported Rows
www.BlastYourBench.com One of the best ways to help increase your bench press (or any exercise) is to build up the opposite muscle groups to help balance out your body. The opposite exercise of a bench press is a chest supported row.
this won’t help your bench, but it can keep you from getting tendonitis from imbalances.
6 plates!!! nice! wasn’t that your personal best from your previous video? what’s your best now?
gReat job, lee!
@teamjinsoku yes it will because your back muscles hep you bench if your doing it right, and this builds up your back
@BJJANDKARATE
The actual machine is called a chest supported row fool
@leehayward, what do you recomend in case someone dosnt have Hammer strenght machines at their gym? are the ordinary chest suported machines good as well?? and do you think i should lift explosively??
@TheBearHHH
I covered that in the beginning of the video, doesn’t matter what kind of chest supported row machine you use. As for lifting speed there are pros and cons to both slow and controlled as well as more explosive lifting. Generally I do all my progressively heavier warm ups slower and stricter, than as I get heavier I’ll go more explosive.
@milotheamazing
I did 6 plates for 5 reps a while back, in this video I did 6 plates for 8 reps and that’s all I could muster up. So 6 plates for 8 reps is my best now.
@lendl08
Not necessarily with your chest workouts, but it’s good to do with your back workouts.
@leemhayward oh yes, i wast careful at the begining sorry. Thanks, i like that Speed-Weight Add Set. Im about to start training for my first powerlifting competition. Why dont you compete in powerlifting anymore???
are dumbell rows the same thing
good advise lee people think to bench you just need a big chest.but your right back,lats are very important well done m8 keep it up.
Loved Cuba, i see!!
hahahahaha Cuba hat>
good exercise and pointers but sadly my gym doesn’t have a machine like that
Hey Lee just decided to let you know that you accidently put 6 plates on each side there…you beast!….does the T-bar row help for stabilizing muscles or are the 2 basically the same?
that hammer strength machine is my favorite aswell! but my gym got rid of it to put in some freemotion machines
What about the “perfect form” set, coach? hahaha
Lee, this question just popped up in my head because I know a lot of body builders like to cut as much as they can before competing.. What is your routine for when you cut? like how does your diet change and how do you maintain muscle while cutting? Its really important for me to figure this out because I want to kill belly fat for more ab definition but I don’t want to lose muscle either.
Ha. Lee. My ancestry is from Cuba. Loved your video of you and your buddy on the island. How did you manage that? I’m old now and my mom is old now too. I’d love to go there with her. Thanks for all your advice and taking the time to do this.
@mannyvelo
I live in Canada and Canadians can freely visit Cuba.
2:55 that face you make is so funny i randomly broke out laughing
allright comrade long live the Canadian revolution. and the weight lifting revolution
Very cool !!!! I will try it tomorrow thank you LEE UR the Best LOL,
you can tell ur alot stronger with your right lat when it comes to rows lee
@zachskates15 rows use primarily lats and biceps which are both pulling muscles not structurally capable of pushing. they can only act as stabilizers during a pushing movement. however, if you want to have a lot of pushing strength you should back it up with pulling strength in the same plane of movement to keep muscles from becoming imbalanced which can cause tendonitis and tracking issues.