Haider,
you can't row 150 pounds? Do you have monkey arms or what?
No... because I row properly. Watch "Pumping Iron" closely (the 25th anniversary documentary "Raw Iron" might be better) and you'll see a 240 lb Arnold struggling to squat 315 and struggling to row 225.
But his form is pretty good...
One of the negative side effects of GH and insulin use in modern bodybuilding is the "shrug-row". It started with Dorian Yates, he developed a pretty severe 'roid gut which necessitated him rowing in an almost standing posture and using a curl-grip (naturally, this reverse grip eventually lead to a bicep tear).
Everyone attributed Dorian's spectacular back development to this form of rowing... not the arched-back slow and deliberate Nautilus pullovers... not the tightly arched back that allows the lats to fully contract... not the fact that he rowed to his pelvis bone with an arched back.
Then Ronnie comes along and makes hardcore training videos including the same semi-upright bent over rows... again, this posture is more due to a distended roid gut than anything else.
The result of this is every gym in the world filled with weak-ass morons shrugging 400 lbs with a head-nod thinking they are doing bent-over rows. Not a decent pair of lats anywhere...
Don't even get me started on the barbell-pointed-into-corner close-grip sumo-deadlifts that pass for T-bar rows these days...
So yes... I'm proud to admit that I can only row 150ish lbs... but I'm more proud of the fact that the plates nearly touch the ground; that my arched lower back never rises above parallel; and that I pull the bar to my upper thighs when I do so.
The Luke