🚣 Chest Supported Row Form Guide
Build a strong, stable back with this row variation.
SportsReflector AI analyzes your Chest Supported Row form by tracking key body landmarks such as the shoulders, elbows, and hips. It evaluates metrics like torso angle stability, elbow path, and scapular retraction to ensure optimal muscle engagement and minimize injury risk. Our AI provides real-time feedback on your technique, helping you achieve a perfect 0-100 score.
Primary Muscles
Lats (Latissimus Dorsi)
Equipment
Chest Supported Row Machine OR Incline Bench and Dumbbells
AI Score Categories
6 metrics tracked
What AI Analyzes in Your Chest Supported Row
SportsReflector tracks 6 key metrics to generate your 0–100 form score.
AI Form Score
Every Chest Supported Row session gets an overall form score plus category-level scoring for each metric above.
4 Chest Supported Row Mistakes AI Catches
These are the most common Chest Supported Row form errors — and the ones most likely to cause injury or limit your progress.
While the chest support is designed to prevent this, some lifters still use momentum by rocking their torso, especially when using too much weight. This reduces the isolation of the back muscles and shifts the load to the lower back, increasing the risk of strain and decreasing the effectiveness of the exercise.
Fix: Reduce the weight and focus on keeping your chest firmly pressed against the pad throughout the entire movement. The only movement should come from your arms and shoulder blades.
Elevating the shoulders towards the ears during the pull engages the upper trapezius excessively and can lead to neck and shoulder tension. It also detracts from the intended focus on the lats and rhomboids, reducing their activation and growth potential.
Fix: Keep your shoulders depressed and pulled back throughout the movement. Imagine pulling your shoulder blades down towards your opposite hip as you initiate the row.
Not fully extending the arms at the bottom or not fully retracting the shoulder blades at the top limits the muscle's ability to stretch and contract through its full range. This compromises muscle development and strength gains, leaving potential growth on the table.
Fix: Ensure a full stretch at the bottom, allowing your shoulder blades to protract. At the top, pull the handles as far back as possible, squeezing your shoulder blades together to achieve maximal contraction.
Allowing the elbows to flare wide during the pull shifts emphasis away from the lats and towards the posterior deltoids and upper traps. This can also place undue stress on the shoulder joint, potentially leading to impingement or discomfort.
Fix: Keep your elbows relatively close to your body, aiming to pull them directly behind you. Imagine driving your elbows towards your hips rather than out to the sides.
Muscles Worked
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