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Upright Rows – What You Need to Know About this Exercise

Terry ClarkBy Terry ClarkFebruary 23, 2023No Comments4 Mins Read
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Upright rows are an excellent exercise for targeting your shoulder muscles. This movement is great for developing strength and power in the shoulders. You can also target other major muscle groups with this exercise. In this article, we’ll discuss how to perform upright rows properly. Also, we will mention the benefits of the movement, variations of the training you can try, and what muscles it works.

How to Perform Upright Rows

Use a set of dumbbells or a barbell to perform upright rows. Start by standing with your feet hip-width apart. Then hold weights below your thighs with an overhand grip (i.e., palms facing down). Keep your arms straight throughout the entire exercise.

From here, slowly lift the weights toward your chest. Keep the weights close to your body as you do so. Do not let them drift away from you as you lift them. Once they reach chest level, hold them briefly before slowly lowering them back to their starting position. That is one rep! Aim for three sets of 10-15 reps each.

Benefits of Upright Rows

The main benefit of upright rows is that they work for multiple muscle groups simultaneously—namely, your shoulders and upper back muscle. This means they are incredibly effective at building strength and power in these areas.

Furthermore, because you are lifting heavy weights as part of this exercise, it can also help build overall muscle mass, strength, and power gains. Finally, this exercise can also help improve posture since they engage many postural muscles along the spine!

Variations of Upright Rows

You can do upright rows with either a barbell or a dumbbell. Using dumbbells allows for more range of motion. This may lead to more significant gains in shoulder strength and size than using a barbell. Additionally, there are several variations of traditional rows that you might want to try, such as seated, barbell upright, ez ba, bent-over double arm, and upright cable rows. This involves slightly different body positions than standard upright rows. But you can still target all the same major muscle groups involved in this exercise!

What Muscles Do Upright Rows Work?

Upright rows primarily target your shoulders (deltoids). Still, they also work other major muscle groups such as your trapezius (upper back), biceps (arms), rhomboids (mid-back), and even core muscles like abs and obliques depending on how wide apart you keep your arms while performing this exercise!

Additionally, you perform this exercise standing up rather than sitting down. You will also engage stabilizer muscles like the glutes and calf muscles, increasing their effectiveness at building overall strength in these areas!

Final Thoughts

In conclusion, upright rows are an excellent movement for simultaneously targeting multiple major muscle groups. They also help improve posture due to their involvement of postural muscles along the spine!

By varying grips (overhand vs. underhand) or performing variations like seated or bent-over double-arm versions of this exercise, one can further customize their workout experience according to their goals & abilities – whether that be increased size & strength gains or simply better overall mobility & stability!

With all this information now, we hope you feel prepared enough to give it a go yourself – happy lifting everyone! If you love bodybuilding, share this article on Facebook or Twitter so that others can learn more about building muscle.

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