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Inverted row
Back · Bodyweight
Sets, reps and RIR
Sets3 to 5
Reps6 to 15
RIR1 to 2
Load is fixed, so progress by adding reps first, then by slowing the lowering phase, then by adding weight.
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: Upper back, Lats.
Secondary: Biceps, Rear delts.
What it is called elsewhere
- Norwegian Invertert roing
- Swedish Omvänd rodd
- Danish Omvendt roning
- German Australische Klimmzüge
- Spanish Remo invertido
- Italian Trazioni australiane
- Portuguese Remada invertida
- Russian Австралийские подтягивания
- French Rowing inversé
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