Group: Experienced Exercise

Experienced Exercise
Created: 2012/01/01, Members: 50, Messages: 19484

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Upright rows

EMUBOY
EMUBOY
Posts: 34
Joined: 2003/07/27
United Kingdom
2003/08/19, 05:37 AM
Can somebody inform me if upright barbell rows are a shoulder or a back exercise.Also is it to bring the bar to chest height or up higher to under the chin to perform the exercise properly?

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k1972pat
k1972pat
Posts: 154
Joined: 2003/06/10
United States
2003/08/19, 06:04 AM
this exercise targets more of the trapezius (Muscle between shoulder blades), shoulders and delts than the back. Only if you're bent over will the emphasis shift more towards the upper back.

k1972pat
k1972pat
Posts: 154
Joined: 2003/06/10
United States
2003/08/19, 06:06 AM
Also it depends on what you feel comfortable with. On my Upright Rows I raise all the way up to my chin. The key is correct formation and go slow.