The seated cable row is sitting on a machine weighted horizontal cable with a bench and plaque on foot. This is an excellent exercise to develop compounds round, mostly middle back while providing a good working arm. The usual treatment is applied, especially if you’ve suffered from lower back or shoulder problems.

Muscles worked: back muscles in general, including the latissimus dorsi, the forearm muscles, the muscles of the arm.

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Body Position

• Sit on platform with knees bent and grasp cable accession. It is often a triangle of driving, but may be a bar.
• Stand with your knees bent and partially so you must come to grasp the handle with open arms but without curling lower back. Apply the “back straight” that he learned in the exercises of squats and dead weight.
• Support for Abdominal and is ready to paddle.

Body Movement

• Pull the handle and the weight to the lower abdomen, not trying to use the momentum of moving the line too torso backwards with his arms.
• Objective of the upper back, keeping your back straight and squeezing your shoulder blades as consecutive chest. Even if a line is called, is not the rowing action classic that could be used in the aerobic rowing machine.
• Return the lever forward power at full capacity to keep the back straight, remembering that despite the bending at the hips. Repeat.

Checkpoints

• Keep your back straight, but you can slightly bend the hips and allow a full range of motion.
• Squeeze your shoulder blades (scapula) together. This is important for most “pull drills” with emphasis on the back.
• Return the weight low voltage to the starting position. No collision weight.
• Be careful if you have an existing shoulder injury in the past or lumbar.