Friday, March 5, 2010

Seated row to the neck

In 2000 (and on a few other occasions) I published and claimed copyright on this exercise description (bolding added now):

Seated row to the neck:

Take a pronated close grip. Maintain a slightly less than vertical trunk – leaning back. Pull the bar to the neck, fully retracting the scapula. Pause there and return to the start position.

I was conducting research and I came upon the following exercise in a publication copyright claimed by another 'author' at a subsequent date (bolding added):

Seated row to the neck:

Take a pronated close grip. Maintain a slightly less than vertical trunk – leaning back. Pull the bar to the neck, fully retracting the scapula. Pause there and return to the start position.

And I said to myself: “That looks familiar!” So I cross-referenced it and I said to myself: “Wow! No wonder that looked familiar!”

And I came upon this description another two more times by the same 'author' in different publications.

I noted that the use of this description was in the absence of credits or references to the origin or permission to use from the original author (myself), and that the 'author' claimed copyright....

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