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Originally Posted by Evoken
What kind of rows? What kind of dL volume are you doing?
Properly done rows should tax the living **** out of your abs/back/hamstrings; I can row far less after dling. My max reps pullups might go down 1-4 if I did a low rep deadlift workout, but from a higher rep one maybe 6-10.
Well, I'm not that great at rows. The only variant I've found that speaks to me is a lat pulldown machine that has handles for doing rows. But I felt this way when I did t-bar rows and db rows as well.
My point is that biomechanically, rows not the fatigue monsters that chins/pullups are. Just from a standpoint of work (force x distance), an equivalent weight chin-up is probably at least 2/3 more work than a row. On top of that, rows are easily cheated, and most people encourage at least a little cheating as a set gets tough. So it's more mechanically advantaged as well.
Otherwise it's anecdotal. I can take a set of rows pretty close to failure, then repeat that for sets across, but an @9 set of chins destroys me for subsequent sets.
I think a good analogy is that rows : bench :: pullups : ohp. I think a hard set of press is worth two equivalent bench sets in terms of fatigue generated.