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Pendlay row
Back · Barbell
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
- Norwegian Pendlay-roing
- Swedish Pendlay-rodd
- Danish Pendlay-roning
- German Pendlay Rudern
- Spanish Remo Pendlay
- Italian Rematore Pendlay
- Portuguese Remada Pendlay
- Russian Тяга Пендлея
- French Rowing Pendlay
Related back exercises
- Single-arm dumbbell row
- Chest-supported dumbbell row
- DB pullover
- Shrugs (dumbbells)
- Romanian deadlift (dumbbells)
- Seal row
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