Just as the bench press is the king of chest exercises, the barbell row is ruler of its domain for the lats and traps. With most other lat exercises you don’t directly fight gravity — a pulley eases the struggle on cable exercises. But with the barbell row, you can really load up on the weight...
A lot of people get caught up using multiple exercises to train the same muscle groups with the same movement patterns and this is horrible for maximizing yo...