A machine high row that builds upper-back width.
Drive your elbows down and back, squeeze your upper back at the bottom.
Pulling from high handles down toward your ribs works the lats through the same long arc as a pulldown, but the chest pad and converging machine path let you drive each elbow down and back with full focus. Because each arm moves on its own lever, a stronger side cannot quietly carry a weaker one, and the biceps assist each pull. It earns its place as the width builder in a machine row lineup, loading the stretched overhead position that standard rows never touch.
Both work. Two arms together lets you handle more total load, one arm at a time gives each side full attention and a bigger stretch as the free side counterbalances. A common approach: both arms for main sets, single arm to attack a weak side.
It covers similar territory, pulling from overhead down. The differences are the chest support locking your torso in, the converging path each arm follows, and independent loading per side. Many lifters run both across a week for the different angles.
Chest firm against the pad, seat set so you reach the handles at a full stretch without shrugging off the pad. If you have to lean back to finish reps, the load is too heavy for the muscles the machine is trying to isolate.
