Seated Cable Row - Bar Wide Grip
Trains the upper back. You need a machine. None of our programs use it yet, but you can add it to any session you build.
Free to use. The app works out every weight and times your rest.
In the programs
None of our programs use the Seated Cable Row - Bar Wide Grip
It is in the app, so you can add it to any session and log it like anything else. It is just not written into one of our 50 free programs. If you want a upper back exercise that is, there are 13 on the Upper Back page.
Muscles worked
What Seated Cable Row - Bar Wide Grip trains
Technique
How to do the Seated Cable Row - Bar Wide Grip
- Sit at the cable row station with your feet on the footrests and your knees slightly bent. Grasp a wide bar attachment with an overhand grip, hands wider than shoulder-width apart, arms extended.
- Pull the bar towards your upper abdomen by driving your elbows out and back, squeezing your shoulder blades together.
- Pause briefly at the point of peak contraction with the bar near your torso.
- Slowly extend your arms to return the bar to the starting position with control. Repeat for the desired number of repetitions.
Form cues
Getting it right
- Keep your torso upright and avoid rocking back and forth to pull the weight.
- The wide grip shifts emphasis to your upper back; focus on squeezing your shoulder blades together on each rep.
- Exhale as you pull the bar in and inhale as you extend your arms.
- Keep your shoulders down and away from your ears throughout the movement.
Substitutes
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Let the app run the Seated Cable Row - Bar Wide Grip for you
Durata picks the weight, times your rest and adds load when you earn it. That works on any of our 50 free programs, or on a session you put together yourself.