A Bent Over Row is when you are holding a barbell with a pronated grip (palms facing down), bending your knees slightly and bringing your torso forward, by bending at the waist, while keeping your back straight until it is almost parallel to the floor.
Tip: Make sure that you keep the head up.
Source: www.Bodybulding.com
This is something I learned new today. You learn something new everyday believe it or not. This was brought to my knowledge by the help of my new found trainer, Tyler Hardy.
Yes people, to your surprise (and mine as well) I have gotten a trainer to start taking my (and I hate to say it) Fitness Journey more seriously. I hate to say it because I’m afraid to be one of those people. I’m afraid to be one of those people because I don’t want to disappoint myself.
I have a nasty habit of my eyes being bigger than my stomach. Leading me to bite off more than I can chew; which means I never finish what I start. So I don’t want to dive to deep too fast with this before I can learn to swim above water.
Sorry for all the analogies.
Tyler Hardy is a Hottie. I’ve been gay crushing on him since my freshman year of college at my old school. He was always handsome and kind to me. I don’t have strong male role models in my life so it was easy for me to smile at him. We don’t anything about each other except for two things.
1. We went to same school
2. We share a mutual love for childhood anime, including Sonic.
Again, it wasn’t hard to like him.
I left and Tyler graduated and all we knew of each other was our social media profiles. Over the years he would occasionally post about his personal development at the gym. I would glance over these post because he is just another person to do this. Until recently, where he posted that he will be providing training sessions.
Of course I’ve tried this before, the whole trainer thing and it never went through for reasons of lack of money, being ditched, or I just wasn’t motivated enough. But when Tyler Hardy told me that he would train me for $20 every two weeks, with a plan that provided dieting and exercises, I was all for it.
I was excited to hear from him and proud of myself for actually taking this step. It seemed do-able. Plus, I couldn’t pass of an opportunity to actually being friends with Tyler Hardy. We get on the phone and we start talking about the plan, What I like to eat Vrs. what I can and shouldn’t eat and then exercising. Everything was going smoothly (besides the fact that I could hardly hear him) until we started talking about shoulders.
“And you need to go light on your shoulders, your shoulder only consist of three muscles and for a woman,”
“Oh wait that's a funny thing, I’m not a woman anymore.”
“I’m taking a bunch of Testosterone.”
He apologized for not knowing.
“Well since you got all this energy then.”
He then started to work up a more masculine plan for me. I admit I was a bit nervous telling him but he took it well. He made it clear that he was here to help me. Now I’m just nervous on trying to impress him.
I just started the work outs today it went well. I did all the instructed exercises except two, and one of them was the Bent Over Row. I had no idea what that was or how to do it. Tyler told me ahead of time that I was going to have to do some research and start educating myself on these things in order to improve, but he was giving me the map to do so.
The other exercise was deadlifts. I knew what that was, they just intimidate me. Next time I’ll give them another try once I study more. I found a new planet fitness that I like better than the one I was going to. It’s much bigger and apparently closer to where I live.
This was the only good thing that happened to me today and I wanted to share it because I have been under a lot of stress lately and I’m trying not to get so deep down in the dumps to a point where I can’t find my way out.
So, cheers to a healthier physical life. At least.
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