Pendley Row

so, ive started doing these for a few weeks now, they are awesome :) I love these as much as deadlifting. and i just pulled up 200 today :D hoorah.

that is all

God damn how big are you? Btw, I find myself not breathing when I do this, for whatever reason i have to remind myself to breathe...

That's a good amount of weight to row.

lol, sorry, thats my max, i could only pull it a couple times :O should've clarified. I normally do reps of 150. Im not very big, but my back is my strongest part of my body.

I weigh 160 lbs and I can throw an extra 50 pounds on me to do pullups and dips. I dunno, my arms have always just been stronger then they seem, now if only my calves would put out the same amount of results :| I need more/better calf excercises.

God damn how big are you? Btw, I find myself not breathing when I do this, for whatever reason i have to remind myself to breathe...

? thats weird, I just shift my beathing to to the top of my chest and not so much through my gut. I take deep breaths and to these slowly

I always used to think that only noobs couldn't breathe out during the work part of the exercise, but then I found out that the reasons for doing that apparently have to do with the belief that you might blow a blood vessel in your brain, and the counter-belief (voiced by Rippetoe) that this is not something you need to worry about.

Actually, let me boil it down better: Rippetoe says not to worry if you have to hold your breath, and that's plenty good enough for me.

ps another pullup lover, rock on mate.

pendlAy

at any rate, I bet the Pendlay row is one of the exercises a person is least likely to perform with good form.

yeah i realized i kept misspelling it :\

ah well. and I have to constantly think about my form when im doing them as well, I do it in front of a mirror and look straight forward to make sure im doing it right :)

Get a bench and do bench pulls, same motion, less chance of hurting yourself (as long as you don't hyperextend your lower back at the top).

http://www.oarsport.co.uk/training/images/training_guide_v2-121_1.jpg

Bad picture, but you kinda get the idea. Stick your head off of the end of the bench. A full rep has the wieght on the floor at the bottom and tapping the bench at the top.

i do that with dumbbells on an incline bench sometimes, but it just doesnt look as cool :P