Barbell rows with small plates

blopmiyers
blopmiyers Posts: 195 Member
edited November 2024 in Goal: Gaining Weight and Body Building
I've finally started the Stronglifts5x5 program and I've run into a small issue.

When performing the barbell row, I have a hard time putting the weight back on the floor as the plates are small so I resort to not to that. Is that alright to do? According to the program the weight has to start on the floor and end there too.

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  • girlinahat
    girlinahat Posts: 2,956 Member
    Can you put blocks under where you would rest the plates/bar to raise it up a bit from the starting point?
  • Lean59man
    Lean59man Posts: 714 Member
    edited March 2018
    You only put it back on the floor after you are done with the set.

    Doing it the Stronglifts way is idiotic.



  • billkansas
    billkansas Posts: 267 Member
    Just don't set it down then. Arnold doesn't.

    He could really pound a golf ball in his day.
  • Erik8484
    Erik8484 Posts: 458 Member
    Pendlay rows start from the ground, while barbell rows generally don't. Pendlay rows provide a greater range of motion (from the grount to touching the sternum), and are more difficult to "cheat" (e.g. by limiting the range of motion or using momentum). Stronglifts prescribes the pendlay row.

    If you want to do pendlay rows, as @girlinahat suggested you should stack something (e.g. plates) below your barbell/plates so that when you rest the barbell/plates on the stack, it is at roughly the same height that it would have been if you were using 45lb plates.
  • TheHobbit2017
    TheHobbit2017 Posts: 96 Member
    Buy some bumper plates. I have some 5kg ones which lift the bar off the ground much more than standard weights
  • ricka1962
    ricka1962 Posts: 84 Member
    If you doing rows you working back. Best thing is to ensure you activate the lat by letting stretch before you row. This is where pulling from floor comes in. That being said, if you are getting the stretch before the bar is all the way to the floor, you don't need to literally lift off the floor. Use blocks to raise the bar just ensure that during your reps your getting that lat stretch activation on the eccentric part of the move.


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