Kettlebell Rows

It’s been a while since I posted up exercise tutorials here.. so I thought about refreshing it up a little bit, today going over exercises you can do at home for the back muscles!⁣⁣
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By altering the “angle of our arms” we can increase the tension on different muscles, depending on which area we want to train. ⁣⁣⁣
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The lats’ muscle fibers descend obliquely downwards and outwards from the last thoracic spine to the back of the crest of the ilium. When we’re performing rows by bringing our elbows close to our torso, the lats will do most of the rowing work by adducting and extending the shoulder (which are the main functions of the lats).⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣
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On the other hand, Trapezius’ muscles fibers distribute “horizontally” and open up kind of like a folding fan covering our upper back. If we take our elbows up to the sides, the tension on the lats decreases, allowing traps, rhomboids and posteriod delts to complete the rowing motion through retraction and adduction of the scapula (which are two of the main functions of the traps). ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣
⁣⁣These can be great variations to use (especially if you’re training at home) when the goal is targeting your back, and you only got minimal equipment to work with.⁣⁣⁣
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In case your gym is closed and you don’t know how you should approach your training, this can be a great opportunity for you to maximize your results with fun at-home workouts, plus the how to get back to your strength training routine course (which includes the progressive routine to get back to your previous lifts, as well as the theory of how you should approach it!)⁣⁣⁣