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Bent-over dumbbell row
Back · Dumbbells
Sets, reps and RIR
Sets3 to 5
Reps4 to 8
RIR1 to 3
A heavy multi-joint lift with free weights. Keep a rep or two in reserve on most sets so technique holds.
RIR means reps in reserve: how many you could still have done when you racked it. RIR 2 is two short of failure.
Muscles worked
Primary: Lats, Upper back.
Secondary: Biceps, Rear delts, Lower back.
Estimate your one-rep max
Epley's formula, from a set you have actually done. It is an estimate, and it drifts above eight reps, so keep the input between one and twelve.
Enter a set to see the estimate.
What it is called elsewhere
- Norsk Bøyd roing (hantler)
- Svenska Framåtböjd rodd (hantlar)
- Dansk Foroverbøjet roning (håndvægte)
- Deutsch Vorgebeugtes Rudern (Kurzhanteln)
- Español Remo inclinado con mancuernas
- Italiano Rematore con manubri a busto flesso
- Português Remada curvada (halteres)
- Русский Тяга гантелей в наклоне
- Français Rowing buste penché (haltères)
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