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:

  • OperationOgre [he/him, they/them]
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    3 years ago

    Pull-ups are a vertical pull, while barbell rows are a horizontal pull. Like I said in my other post here to the OP, you can start doing bodyweight rows instead of barbell rows. Personally I think they're more comfortable while still giving you a good workout, especially since you can move through different progressions to adjust the difficulty.