If Bent Over Rows are killing your back, Today I’ll share two of my favorite back pain-friendly bent-over-row alternatives that build strength without hurting your back!

Building back strength is really important if you’ve been dealing with chronic lower back pain for any length of time.

Over time, the pain, fear, and lack of use create atrophy or muscle weakening in the back, which only sends you deeper into pain, fear of use, and weakening.

The worst thing you could do with exercises like the barbell bent over a row is to keep doing it, thinking the pain will eventually go away.

Instead, while you continue to learn to heal the source of pain, we want to pick exercises that allow us to train these “scary” or “painful” muscles in ways that promote healing and strength building.

Today, I’ll reveal two back exercises that I have used as a bent-over row alternative.

These always leave my back feeling great!

William

Be sure to grab my FREE Pain-Free Training Blueprint, perfect for l4-l5 or l5-S1 disc injuries. I go into more detail with action steps with the “WCSP Method”