Seated Row Exercise with Resistance Bands

Video Transcript

Okay, our next clip is going to be a seated row. What you're going to do is you're going to take your resistance band, and start with the band underneath both of your feet in the instep. Wrap it around the base. Try and get and even amount for you to grip. Okay, and you're going to scooch back. Now you can have your legs bent, that's the way I prefer with a slight angle on the back. If you have back issues, you can put the legs flat with a slight bend in the knee. But for our purposes we're going to do it this way. Grab by the sides, lean back slightly, grab with an overhand grip, bring the elbows close to the body, and row it back squeezing the shoulder blades together. Relaxing the shoulders and the neck, coming forward and rowing back. Now what you want to do on this one is make sure that you're breathing properly. You're going to exhale on the way back, and then inhale as you come forward. You can always change the grip, palms down, and open it back keeping the shoulders relaxed as you bring those shoulder blades together. If you still want to look for something additional, come back to the original row position and you can add a rotation. So you're combining the two grips. You're combining the first grip with the second grip. Okay, you want to keep those elbows a little bit bent. Make sure you're breathing properly. Exhale on the way back, inhale on the way forward. And remember our first option, if you have back issues you can always put both legs flat. Okay this is how this would look and you're just going to give it a nice row. Keeping that back nice and protected.