Upright Barbell Row

Shoulders · Barbell

How to do it

Standing with the bar in front of your thighs, grip slightly wider than your shoulders so you do not close down the joint space. Pull the bar up close to your body **to sternum height, no higher**, leading with the elbows up and out. Lower under control. You feel side delt and traps. If you feel pinching in the shoulder, switch to lateral raises: nobody needs this exercise.

Variants

The drawing shows one way of doing it, and the technique above describes that one. Almost every exercise has variants — standing or seated, the grip, the bench angle — and is still the same exercise: if you do it another way, write it in the exercise note and you will have it every time you train it.

Also works: Back

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