Thread: Back training with Dorian

oh, it's Mark Dugdale that Dorian is training.

here is part 1 of the series:

squeeze!!!!!!!!!!!!

Is there any benefit to rounding your back when doing cable rows like in the first vid. I have always tried to keep my back straight the entire time

Originally Posted by Bradicallyman

Is there any benefit to rounding your back when doing cable rows like in the first vid. I have always tried to keep my back straight the entire time

the only benefit i can think of is possible herniation.

patrick

Really inspiring video. thanks for sharing man

I'm really going to focus more on squeezing the last part of the movement.

Originally Posted by Bradicallyman

Is there any benefit to rounding your back when doing cable rows like in the first vid. I have always tried to keep my back straight the entire time

as P-funk said, you can herniate a disk rounding your back on cable rows or barbell rows, due to my past disk herniation I no longer do seated cable rows, nor standing barbell rows.

Piss poor. haha

Originally Posted by Prince

as P-funk said, you can herniate a disk rounding your back on cable rows or barbell rows, due to my past disk herniation I no longer do seated cable rows, nor standing barbell rows.

Do you just stick to chest supported stuff?

Originally Posted by Bradicallyman

Do you just stick to chest supported stuff?

yup, mostly, except for pull downs.

That was a really great video of Dorian Yates, the man, the myth the legend.

What I would give to train with him so he can use his motivational psychology on me, and tell me my training style was piss poor, and I would just agree and say thanks!

Originally Posted by Prince

yup, mostly, except for pull downs.

It's nice to know you can still build a huge back like yours without lifts like barbell rows ! I try to do them from time to time, but with my back problems, I try to stick to chest supported rows and even single arm DB Rows.

I've found that I prefer cable rows to BB or DB rows lately. I can get a lot strong contraction using cables that separate out the sides (whatever that's called...unilateral maybe but I'm not doing them separately.)