I’m following Alan Thrall’s video on this exercise and it’s irritating as hell. I can’t reach my chest/upper body consistently. And when I do, it’s usually one arm reaching it first the the other - in other words, it seems like my arms are imbalanced in strength and they can’t bring the bar up at the same time.

Also, I’ll occasionally feel a sharp pain in my shoulders when doing this and I have no idea why. In conclusion, I hate this shit.

Any tips or alternatives that train the same groups? I’d do chin ups, but I’m trying to do rows to build up muscles for chin ups :agony-deep:

  • LoudMuffin [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    I kno, but they're booth a kilogggrammme

    This is what I mean

    Chin ups are almost like a skill you have to develop, if you wanna do em you just have to practice them

    I personally have never liked barbell rows, they are too easy to cheat and are kinda awkward

    I started doing them just hanging like in the vid and now I can do them ez