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- Wide dumbbell row
Wide dumbbell row
A compound exercise for the upper back and rear delts, with help from the lats, traps. Equipment: dumbbells.
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How to do it
- Setup: Hinge forward, dumbbells hanging, palms facing your legs.
- Row with the elbows flared out to the sides
- Squeeze the shoulder blades, then lower
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