Hammer Low Rows vs Seated Cable Rows

[Royalty]

If you had a home gym and only had space for one of these units, which would you get??

[Montague]

I would choose the seated cable row.
It's more versatile.

With the low row you can only do that one exercise one way.

JMO.

[chaos]

Seated cable rows.

[slaveboy1980]

seated cable rows

[tonymctones]

seated cable rows but for me personally i would get the regular hammer strength row machine but i have a problematic back and you can actually add a good amount of weight to that machine as well.

cable rows come with a stack and while im sure you could figure out a way to add more weight to the stack it might be a pain in the ass. The hammer strength machine you could probably put 300 lbs on both sides to make about 600 and you could rig something up pretty easy to add more weight to that if needed.

[LatsMcGee]

Cable Rows,  There are so many great variations on cable rows that the hammer row doesn't even compare. 

[wes]

Most Hammer Strength machines suck!

[Marlo Stanfield]

If you had a home gym and only had space for one of these units, which would you get??

Hammer rows... for all thoe saying Seated Cable Rows because of versatility...umm what other excercises do you wanna do on it? just different grips???

i think if your main focus if to build your back, the machine to do it would be the hammer rows.

[local hero]

cable row 100%, lends its self to lots of grips, angles... hammer row is limited

[dyslexic]

There are a shitload of other exercises you can do with a low cable...


rear delts, traps, biceps, forearms, low back (hypers)-- A cable will always ad more versatility to a workout.


I wouldn't have to worry about a rowing machine. I would just jam an Oly bar into the corner and do T bar rows.

[Montague]

Hammer rows... for all thoe saying Seated Cable Rows because of versatility...umm what other excercises do you wanna do on it? just different grips???

With a little thought and very minor adjustment, it’s possible to perform quite a few exercises on a seated cable row:

Seated or standing overhead triceps extensions w/ a rope
Lying biceps curls w/ a straight or EZ bar (interesting feel)
Really, many exercises one would normally do on a low cable.

One of the Muscle-Tech guys recently did a video showing single-arm overhead cable extensions done cross-body with the cable going from the working hand, behind the body, down to the opposite side.

This type of versatility would make the seated cable an ideal choice for someone wishing to do these exercises and currently lack the necessary equipment.

[chaos]

Hammer rows... for all thoe saying Seated Cable Rows because of versatility...umm what other excercises do you wanna do on it? just different grips???

i think if your main focus if to build your back, the machine to do it would be the hammer rows.

You = pwned.

There are a shitload of other exercises you can do with a low cable...


rear delts, traps, biceps, forearms, low back (hypers)-- A cable will always ad more versatility to a workout.


I wouldn't have to worry about a rowing machine. I would just jam an Oly bar into the corner and do T bar rows.

With a little thought and very minor adjustment, it’s possible to perform quite a few exercises on a seated cable row:

Seated or standing overhead triceps extensions w/ a rope
Lying biceps curls w/ a straight or EZ bar (interesting feel)
Really, many exercises one would normally do on a low cable.

One of the Muscle-Tech guys recently did a video showing single-arm overhead cable extensions done cross-body with the cable going from the working hand, behind the body, down to the opposite side.

This type of versatility would make the seated cable an ideal choice for someone wishing to do these exercises and currently lack the necessary equipment.

[tonymctones]

the low row hammer strength machine does suck ass in my opinion which is why i stated the regular HS row machine.

It allows for overhand and neutral grip rows and is a good machine imho.

I think dyslexic got it right with the his comments there isnt really a need for a row machine unless you have a bad back or some other reasoning behind it.

T bar rows are great actually change my vote to a T bar row machine with chest pad

[Marlo Stanfield]

There are a shitload of other exercises you can do with a low cable...


rear delts, traps, biceps, forearms, low back (hypers)-- A cable will always ad more versatility to a workout.


I wouldn't have to worry about a rowing machine. I would just jam an Oly bar into the corner and do T bar rows.

Im guessing someone who is looking to put a low row machine in his home gym already has an olympic bar, power rack and dec ent amount of weights. When you have an olympic bar, would you still wanna do Bis, Delts, Traps, Forearms  on a cable row machine?