weight for back?

[Warrior]

I think it is silly to sacrifice good form for heavy weights on these... your torso should be close to parallel to the floor... and you should be pulling up into your abdominals - if you stand up with the bar and get all sloppy... you have wasted an excelent movement...

With that said, most should be able to do well over 80lbs - it's a nice compound movement that lets you put a good, heavy stress on the back muscles... however, like I said... there is a point of diminishing returns where you start sacrifcing gains in strength for gains in ego...

Your bent Barbell Row strength should probably be at least 75% your Flat Bench Press strength... if I had to guess for balance sakes..

[*Narkissos*]

I think it is silly to sacrifice good form for heavy weights on these... your torso should be close to parallel to the floor... and you should be pulling up into your abdominals - if you stand up with the bar and get all sloppy... you have wasted an excelent movement...

Agreed

With that said, most should be able to do well over 80lbs - it's a nice compound movement that lets you put a good, heavy stress on the back muscles... however, like I said... there is a point of diminishing returns where you start sacrifcing gains in strength for gains in ego...

Agreed

Your bent Barbell Row strength should probably be at least 75% your Flat Bench Press strength... if I had to guess for balance sakes..

I have to question this part tho Warrior.

How does one arrive at that estimation?

Personally i think the estimation should be based around your deadlift strength.. not your bench strength: even tho both the bench and parallel rows are working in a similar plane.

I'm naturally a stronger puller.. thus my bent row is heavier than my bench.

Holla

~Nark

[chest6]

Your bent Barbell Row strength should probably be at least 75% your Flat Bench Press strength... if I had to guess for balance sakes..

My row is actually much higher than my bench right now. My bench is still lagging..I haven't recovered much of my strength from my chest injury awhile ago. Currently my bench is 255x8 and my bent over row is 335x8...Interesting because my bench used to blow everything out of the water (thus the username,chest6)

[Warrior]

My row is actually much higher than my bench right now. My bench is still lagging..I haven't recovered much of my strength from my chest injury awhile ago. Currently my bench is 255x8 and my bent over row is 335x8...Interesting because my bench used to blow everything out of the water (thus the username,chest6)

This is very strage - are you sure you are using the right form? I know it took me several years to really understand the correct way to do Barbell Rows...

335 is quite heavy...

[Papi93]

This is very strage - are you sure you are using the right form? I know it took me several years to really understand the correct way to do Barbell Rows...

335 is quite heavy...

I would guess a supinated-grip with a trunk angle of around 70 degrees. Still, that is impressive if there is minimal momentum involved.