Machine Low Row

Start

Finish

How to do it

Sit with the chest on the pad and handles at chest height, row straight back to your lower ribs and hold the contraction for a beat before letting the weight pull your arms forward under control.

Muscles worked

Primary: back · Also works: biceps, rear delts

Equipment

Machines, Full gym

Common mistakes

• Slamming the stack back onto the plates at the end of each rep
• Shrugging the shoulders up during the pull instead of keeping them down
• Setting the chest pad too far away so only the first half of the range is used

Variations

• Wide-grip machine low row
• Single-arm machine low row

Can't do this one? Swap it for

• Seated Cable Row
• Chest-Supported Row
• Seated Band Row

Related exercises

• Pull-Upback
• Lat Pulldownback
• Barbell Bent-Over Rowback
• Single-Arm Dumbbell Rowback
• Resistance Band Rowback
• Inverted Rowback