When I first read this, I thought you must have been high when you wrote it or something, SYL. I thought, "How the hell do you do any rowing movement without using your biceps?" I was with you on the ab sling exercise, I actually went and tried it and isolated the proper muscles, but I still didn't think it would matter once I bent over and tried it with a bar. It did though! It was a eureka moment. I had to drastically drop the weight I usually use, but once I did and really concentrated on squeezing the muscles together instead of simply moving the bar from the ground to my chest I could definitely feel the difference. Naturally, there was still some biceps involvement, but I never realized how much they {improperly} dominated the movement before. My middle back particularly has always lagged a bit and now I know part of the reason why; my biceps are taking too much of the load on back movements. Thanks man. That was very enlightening.
Last edited by Morskaya_Pekhota; 01-01-2009 at 07:46 PM.
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