I fucked up guys.
I'm relatively new to lifting. Been doing SL 5x5 since early Feb. I've made solid gains and I'm really happy with the program.
But today, while I was doing barbell rows, I was asked by a gym employee to not do them on the platform because they are for deadlifting. There wasn't anyone waiting for me to finish so it's not like I was holding anyone up. Then he said I could finish my barbell rows on the bench press so I went to a bench and rowed over the bench.
It felt awkward as hell so I looked up where the fuck and how the fuck to do a barbell row and apparently rowing on the platform is like curling in the squat rack?
I had no idea and I've been doing it for months. I must be "that guy" in so many people's stories.
How do you barbell row over the bench? Am I supposed to straddle the bench and row over it?
>>36837029
That dude's a fucking idiot. You're picking the weight off the floor, any kind of floor pull should be fine on a deadlift platform.
Dude that's lame, I do mine on the DL platform and no one says anything, even if someone is waiting
>>36837029
Switch to pendlay rows, do them on the platform, and tell that retard to fuck off because if you do them anywhere else you'll be making a fuckhueg amount of noise
no, dude. barbell rows are definitely done from the floor, or in your case, on the platform
was that gym employee DYEL as fuck?
I wish my poverty gym had a deadlift platform ;_;
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>>36837152
This is making me feel way better. So even if people are waiting to deadlift, I should still continue to row on the platform?
>>36837154
I go to a uni gym so there's a nice sized platform <3
>>36837029
Gym instructor is a tard.
Also dont do rows like in your pic (bent over rows), too much snapcity potential. Go for pendlay rows instead.
>>36837029
if you can't do rows over a bench, you're a manlet
>>36837029
I squatted on the deadlift platform today because the squat racks were full. Come at me bro.
>>36839807
How did you do that? Clean the weight up, press, then lower it onto your shoulders?
>tfw gym has 8 oly lifting platforms
>tfw do The Press, squats rows and other shit on them
>>36839814
yeah but just the bar
>>36837029
>I'm relatively new to lifting
>since early Feb
No, you're just new.
>>36841180
Haha okay fair enough
>>36838009
Do they work the same muscles? Like will they properly replace the rows I'm doing in the SL 5x5?
>>36841321
Just do the rows as instructed and quit taking advice from skeltrons who snapped their shit rowing half a plate.
>>36837189
>So even if people are waiting to deadlift, I should still continue to row on the platform?
yes
