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Stop doing wide grip rows. It's commonly said that wide grip rows bias the "upper back", but apparently the only muscles in the upper back that are biased with a wide grip/flared elbows are the rear delts, teres, infraspinatus, and supraspinatus. And rear delts can be easily trained in isolation with reverse flies, while the rest don't contribute significantly to back thickness (let alone width).
Meanwhile the traps and rhomboids (the upper back muscles that actually create back thickness) aren't affected by grip, and are instead only affected by scapular movement. Which means if you want to target those muscles, you just need to protract your scapula during the eccentric phase of rowing, and your grip doesn't matter.
And if your grip doesn't matter, you should use whatever grip allows you to row with the heaviest loads, which is a narrow, neutral grip.
Source:
https://www.strongerbyscience.com/rowing/

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