How to do the rowing T barre?

The rowing T bar allows to solicit mainly the back in thickness. Some T-bar machines allow you to rest your chest on a support in order to increase the safety of the exercise and thus keep your chest fixed.

How to do this exercise?

Position your feet shoulder-width apart, then bend your legs as if you were doing a deadlift and grasp the handles. Keep your torso straight with an angle of about 45 degrees and your knees bent. Bring the T-bar up close to your chest and slowly return to the starting position, then repeat the movement to finish your set.

CAUTION: The back should always remain straight throughout the movement, at a 45 degree angle and the knees bent to protect the lower back.

Tips

1. Breathe in during the pull-up phase and breathe out during the lowering of the bar.
2. The torso should be balanced at about 45 degrees and the back should be straight.
3. With each raise of the bar, please squeeze your shoulder blades and turn your shoulders back, chest out.
4. You can use pulling straps or hooks for a better grip and not to pull too much with the arms.

Variants

• The T-bar rowing can be performed on a T-bar machine with the chest supported.
• Without machine, one can wedge a bar in a corner of the room and provide itself with a triangle of pulling which one wedges in front of the bar to carry out the exercise.