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Reverse-grip barbell 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
- Norsk Roing med stang (undergrep)
- Svenska Skivstångsrodd med underhandsgrepp
- Dansk Roning med vægtstang (underhåndsgreb)
- Deutsch Langhantelrudern im Untergriff
- Español Remo con barra agarre supino
- Italiano Rematore con bilanciere presa supina
- Português Remada curvada supinada (barra)
- Русский Тяга штанги в наклоне обратным хватом
- Français Rowing barre prise supination
Related back exercises
- Single-arm dumbbell row
- Chest-supported dumbbell row
- DB pullover
- Shrugs (dumbbells)
- Romanian deadlift (dumbbells)
- Seal row
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