Inverted rows in the gym...

nch1993x

I'm keen to start incoorporating inverted rows into my lifting programme. I've seen a load of videos for improvising inverted rows at home involving bed sheets and doors, etc. But I want to be able to incorporate them into the rest of my lifting that I do at the gym (if I don't get them done with the rest of the lifting, they just won't happen). I'm just not sure where to do them!

My gym doesn't have a smith machine, which is where I've heard a lot of people say they do their inverted rows. It has cables, power racks, and pull up bars. I was thinking I could probably use the safety bars on the power rack, or maybe get some rings and hang them over ends of a pullup bar... but there are only two racks / bars (and the pullup bars are on the power rack, so you can't really use both at once), and the gym is pretty busy - I'm usually wating ~10 minutes for a rack to come free to do squats. Given that, it seems pretty bad ettiquette to take up the space for something that could be done outside somewhere. I don't want to annoy people, and really don't want to get confronted by someone who wants the space for squats...

I was wondering if anyone had any thoughts on this? Or any genius / creative ways to do inverted rows using other things you might find in a gym?

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SonyaCele

most gyms have a TRX you can do inverted rows with them. And most parks have bars for the kids to play on that a good heights for these, heck you can do them anywhere on anything.

jacksonpt

use a squat rack... lower the safeties to the appropriate height, lay the barbell on the safeties, do your rows from the barbell. If the gym doesn't have a space for inverted rows, then you have just as much right to the rack as anyone else does.

Alternatively... all you really need is something to hang from that is at a reasonable height. Put a curl bar or similar across 2 benches. Get creative, there are probably lots of options.

Kimo159

I wouldn't worry about doing inverted rows in the power/squat rack though. Last time I was at the gym I did inverted rows in the power rack. It was busy and the smith was being used. I got in, did my reps, and got out. I probably spent a grand total of 5 minutes in the rack (tops), including set up and rest times. Didn't feel bad at all and didn't get a single side eye (at least none that I saw).