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Most People Fail To Work 50% of Their Muscle Tissue!

Did you know that even bodybuilders neglect half the 
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It doesn't take rocket science to build bigger muscles.  
However, it does take a certain knowledge and application 
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     Fitness Tips For 9/24/2014
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Rowing Exercise Variations
Retool Your Rowing

You may not have thought about this much but rowing is one of the 
most important exercises you can perform for your physique. That's
because rowing works the biggest muscle mass in your upper body 
– your back muscles.  Get your rowing right and your back muscles 
will grow.

New Style of Rowing

Most of the people who perform the barbell row, or its machine 
derivative, do so at a moderate pace. That's fine, but you can give
your back muscles a whole new level of stimulation by performing the 
rowing movement explosively. And you can only reach the high-end fast
twitch muscle fiber in the back with explosive action. The standard 
style of rowing doesn't work the high-end fast twitch muscle at all.
  
Missing out on working the high-end fast twitch muscle for your back
muscles is a big mistake because your back muscles contain a lot of 
high-end fast twitch fiber. That means that you are leaving a lot of 
growth on the table by only employing the standard style rowing.
	
Explode!

What you can do to change the situation is to start adding some 
explosive rowing into your back training routine. Explosive lifting
will crank up the intensity to new levels each workout.
 
In fact you should be performing explosive lifting on a regular basis
for virtually all of your major muscle groups. The back is one of the
more critical regions since it makes up such a large portion of your 
upper body. Why not work all the muscle fiber in this area instead of
just half? By incorporating explosive rowing you can get that other 
unreached muscle tissue to respond.

Retooled Rowing

To employ explosive rowing, you want to move that weight load as fast
as possible. You can also add a couple of tweaks to your rowing to 
make it even more effective in the explosive style. These tweaks were
employed by multi-Mr. Olympia Dorian Yates, with great results. The 
tweaks are to employ an under grip with your hands (hands supinated, 
palms facing your body). Additionally, don't bend down so deep as you
do on the standard row. You don't need to have your back parallel 
with the floor – keep it 20 degrees above parallel. This will take 
some stress off of your low back region and also allow you to lift 
much heavier weight loads when you row. 

One more tweak – use a shoulder width grip placement. You don't need
a super wide hand placement to get the results as a medium wide grip 
works great.

Bend down, grasp the barbell with the supinated grip, and explode. 
Pull that bar up to your body as hard and as fast as you possibly 
can. Keep on focusing on exploding for each rep. Rock it on the way 
up, lower it more slowly, and repeat.

Rep & Set Range

You don't need a super high repetition range when you are performing
explosive movements. In fact most of those who use explosive training
the most (NFL, Olympic, collegiate sports, etc.) employ a repetition
range that runs from 3-5-7 per set. For your explosive rowing, 
perform seven repetitions per set. Focus on making each repetition 
super explosive.

Perform three sets of the explosive row initially after a good warm 
up for your back. It is particularly important to get the back 
muscles warmed up very well as explosive training is very demanding 
on not only the muscles but also tendons and ligaments and more.
 
Once you have a couple of sessions at the three set point under your
belt, move up to 5-6 sets of the explosive bent row. Allow a couple 
of minutes between sets and pound out the reps.

Keep Pushing

This is one exercise where you want to consistently add weight. You
will be surprised at how much weight you will eventually be able to
move in this lift. Keep pushing the weight load upward – try to add
five pounds or so every few workouts.

Your back muscles are capable of being extremely strong and can 
handle big loads, so give them something to work with.

The explosive rowing exercise can be performed quickly and will 
really fire up your muscles. If you are incorporating it into a full
back routine, insert it right after the chin ups and watch how well 
your back responds.


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