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Are upright rows bad for the joints?

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The EZ bar should be able to hold three 25's on each side, and they are small enough that your elbows dont hit. If that isnt enough weight for you then you could always do them with dumbells. If you wanted to use cables, another variation is to do them off of the seated low pulley row(the back machine). Just do them standing up right there, and that way you have a bigger weight stack to work with because most of the crossover stacks wont do the job. I have found that I feel them most using an olympic barbell and just keeping my rep range between 8-10. I also use straps so that I dont have to keep as drastic of a wrist angle(sometimes I use a false grip also to switch things up).
 
I always use the EZ bar which holds plenty of weight since I don't go heavy and I'm a weak pussy anyway :D My elbows hit anything bigger than 10s, but I can get 4 10s on each side so it's fine. The closer your grip, the more extreme angles you put your joints at. I end up using about 8-10 inches spacing and hang the bar from my fingers with no thumb grip which takes some of the stress off my wrists.

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