Body movement during the seated cable row?
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Asked by: Sagar Mastracci
High pulley cable row Extend your arms and stretch your shoulders forward as you engage your core and sit up tall. Your feet should be placed shoulder-width apart, flat on the floor. Exhale and pull the handles in toward you, using a rowing motion until the handles reach the outside of your chest.
What movement is a seated row?
The concentric phase is when the weight is moving upwards and the hands are moving towards the body for the jam analysis. The joints that are moving are the scapula shoulder.
What muscles are used during seated row?
Specifically, the seated row targets the muscles in your upper back and also the latissimus dorsi — a muscle on the outer side of the chest wall. This exercise will help improve your posture and help protect your shoulders.
What muscle does rows activate?
Seated Row: Primary Muscles
The main muscles you will activate include your erector spinae in your lower back, your middle and lower trapezius in your upper back, your rhomboids and latissimus dorsi in your middle back and your teres major in your outer back.
What is a shoulder flexion?
A shoulder flexion is when you move your arms anywhere from a resting position by your sides to straight above your head. An extension is when you move your arms and stick them out behind you. The muscles involved in the flexion movement include the anterior deltoid, pectoralis major and coracobrachialis.
What muscles are being targeted when doing crunches?
Crunches, also known as abdominal crunches, are a core exercise designed to target your abdominal muscles—specifically your rectus abdominis (the six-pack muscle) and your obliques.
What is the antagonist muscle in a seated row?
Additionally, greater number of repetitions in seated row was observed after stretching the antagonist pectoralis major (Miranda et al. 2015) .
What is the synergist muscle in a seated row?
If you row with one arm at a time on a cable machine, and pull back farther than normal by twisting your torso, you also work the obliques, quadratus lumborum, psoas major and iliocastalis muscles as synergists.
