Exercise library / Middle back
Leverage High Row
- Main muscles
- Middle back
- Also works
- Lats
- Equipment
- Machine
- Level
- Beginner
- Type
- Compound · Pull
How to do it
- Load an appropriate weight onto the pins and adjust the seat height so that you can just reach the handles above you. Adjust the knee pad to help keep you down. Grasp the handles with a pronated grip. This will be your starting position.
- Pull the handles towards your torso, retracting your shoulder blades as you flex the elbow.
- Pause at the bottom of the motion, and then slowly return the handles to the starting position.
- For multiple repetitions, avoid completely returning the weight to the stops to keep tension on the muscles being worked.
Quick answers
- What muscles does the Leverage High Row work?
- Mainly the middle back, with help from the lats.
- What equipment do I need?
- Machine.
- Is it good for beginners?
- Yes, it is rated beginner level.
- How do I track progress on it?
- Log each set and beat the weight or reps from last time. Liftrung shows your last set beside the next one and estimates your one-rep max from your sets.
More middle back exercises
- Lying T-Bar Row
- Smith Machine Bent Over Row
- Alternating Kettlebell Row
- Alternating Renegade Row
- Bent Over Barbell Row
- Bent Over One-Arm Long Bar Row
Exercise descriptions: free-exercise-db, public domain.