Name: Suspension Row with Rotation
Uploaded: 2023-04-26T01:00:27.000Z
Duration: 6 min 4 s

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Learn how to properly perform the suspension row with rotation in this comprehensive step-by-step instructional video from the Brookbush Institute. This evidence-based video provides expert coaching on setup, form, and exercise modifications (including progressions and regressions) to safely build back (latissimus dorsi and rhomboid) and core strength while improving coordination, stability, and movement efficiency. Perfect for athletes, fitness enthusiasts, and rehabilitation clients seeking to develop functional strength, explosive power, and total-body performance.

Introduction to the Suspension Row Progression

Key Mechanics and Common Mistakes in Execution

Adjusting Difficulty for Optimal Results

Challenges and Benefits of Advanced Variations

Suspension Row with Rotation

This is Brent of the Brookbush Institute bringing you guys an interesting progression from our suspension row series. I'm going to have my friend, Melissa, come out. She's going to help me demonstrate. So, before we start this progression, we have to have mastered the single arm with two feet progression. If you've gone further than that, that's ok. For example, if you can do a single arm, single leg row, great. This progression starts with two feet, one arm. So, Melissa is going to get into position, and notice her posture is really good: head back, chin tucked, shoulders down and back, she's drawn in, tucked under to hide anterior pelvic tilt or at least work against it, quads tight, and then she's going to go ahead and let herself down slowly. And then this is where things get fun. She's going to let her body rotate and reach for the floor with the opposite arm. Notice this hip also turns out, or actually both hips turn out 45 degrees, and she's pivoting on the contralateral side heel. The hard part is turning back in and then pulling back up. So that turning back in you saw at the bottom of that movement is horizontal adduction and requires a lot of pectoralis major recruitment. So all of a sudden we've turned a suspension row into a much more complicated movement pattern that not only includes my pectoralis major, but even some of my rotators of my hip and requires more core stability. So once again, we turn out, we turn out at the hips, and we pivot on the contralateral heel. Go ahead and switch sides. Let's talk about the number one mistake that I see in this exercise, because obviously I didn't come up with this exercise. This is a fairly popular exercise, and I just think it's very interesting from a kinesiology standpoint. Melissa is going to do this the way she likes to do it, which is- and bounce. You were not even doing them that slow when we started. Notice she just kind of hits the bottom and flings herself back up. The reason that's so much easier is basically you can rely on the extensibility of your latissimus dorsi, a very strong muscle, to kind of propel you back up. You lose all of that need for horizontal adduction combined with internal rotation at the hips, good core stability and glute stability to maintain pelvic alignment. That all goes away when you just bounce. Now if you're slow, she really has to work to horizontally adduct, stabilize here, and use her glutes to keep her pelvis up as she pulls all the way up. She rotates out, turns in, turns in, and glutes tight. If I kept her- if you guys want to be cruel- if I kept her to that 4-2-2 count recommended by the National Academy of Sports Medicine in their phase one training, this would be really tough. Down, 2, 3, 4, hold 2, up 2. You can come up a little faster than that. Alright, so I can have her do a four second eccentric hold at the bottom, so that I no longer have any chance of a plyometric balance that she can use the elasticity of her tissues to get her back up. I'm going to go ahead and make her hold it down there and use the strength of these muscles that I'm trying to build some stability and endurance in. Do you want to try one more time on the other side? You can switch sides again. So we're going down, 2, 3, 4, and hold. We can do a little posture check here: glutes tight, draw in, good, and now turn in and reach. That looks great. Down, 2, 3, 4, and give her any cues she needs: draw in, glutes tight, and up. Alright, on this one: down, 2, 3, 4, try to keep this shoulder down. Good, and up. Relax. As you guys could imagine, making this exercise easier or harder is just a matter of how horizontal do you want somebody to be or how vertical do you want them to be. We could allow Melissa to be more vertical by actually moving the True Fit Suspension Trainer down a little bit, so that the band itself is more horizontal. I could make this a lot harder on her by making her more horizontal possibly by just making this longer. This is this is going to be really tough for Melissa here, I'm not sure she's going to be able to pull this off, but try to give it one try. You can see how close to the floor she's reaching, and back up. Good, go ahead and relax. One of the challenges I put out to some of my athletes is I'd like you to be able to get horizontal enough to be able to touch the floor, and I want to see if you can do 12 to 20 reps at that 4-2-2 count, which is a 90 second to 3 minute set per arm on each side. That's tough- that's no joke. And if you can set up stability like this, I guarantee that once they get into their strength phase, you're going to see some big changes, big results. They're going to have a nice stable shoulder girdle, which of course you can build all sorts of strength and power on. I look forward to hearing how you guys do integrating this exercise into your routines.

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Have the client or patient grasp the handles of the suspension trainer.

Cue your client or patient into a position in which the straps and their fully extended arms are aligned. This is achieved by asking them to appropriately adjust the strap length, foot position, body angle, and shoulder and arm position.

The foot position and strap length may need to be repositioned during the first few repetitions to ensure that the straps and forearms maintain alignment throughout the motion.

Feet perpendicular to the floor and 2nd toe aligned with ASIS

Pelvis neutral (absence of anterior or posterior pelvic tilt)

Torso, scapula, and head in neutral alignment

Torso and lower extremity alignment should be achieved by cueing the client to press their heels into the floor: extending the hips (contracting the glutes), extending the knees (contracting the quadriceps), dorsiflexing the ankles, and performing the abdominal drawing-in maneuver.

Note that optimal torso alignment should be achieved via hip extension, not lumbar extension.

Ask the client or patient to pull the lower portion of the rib cage toward the handles and “squeeze and depress their shoulder blades” (retract and posteriorly tip their scapula).

The end of range (top of pull-up) should result in the hands, wrists, and elbows in, and the forearms in line with the direction of pull.

Cue your client or patient to control the eccentric phase at the desired tempo, allowing the resistance to return them to the starting position with arms near full extension and scapula protracted

Have the client or patient address any form or recruitment issues (posture check).

 Load is reduced if the body is positioned more vertically, increased if the body is positioned more horizontally, and the feet may be elevated for additional load.

 Single-arm (unilateral), single-leg, stability ball under feet

 Additional resistance with a weight vest.

Often professionals and exercisers will attempt this exercise with straps that have insufficient length to accommodate the width of the shoulder girdle. This results in form issues, as the exerciser attempts to pull around the straps or avoid painful sharp corners, seams, and buckles. Using longer straps, or 2 straps that can be hung individually at shoulder width solves this issue.

The scapula should not be cued into a fixed position. The concentric phase should include retraction, and the eccentric phase should include protraction.

Attempting to pull-up “too far” will result in a loss of optimal scapular position, likely resulting in anterior tipping. The range of motion should be the largest range that can be performed without pain or compensation.

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