Most overrated exercises.......

[beastboy]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Most overrated exercises.......

Let me elaborate.

People keep telling how you have to do squat/dead/bench, isolation (pec deck flys etc) dont work they say.

Well exercises have NOTHING to do with growth. They just determine which muscles get worked.

Furthermore, big compound movements are good for strength. But they dont make a certain bodypart grow bigger than an isolation exercise for it.

IF you know how to do stuff you can get lots of mass with isolation movements, sometimes even more than with compound movements. Because compound movements sometimes have a big tendency to involve other parts, thus less direct stimulation to the target muscle (chest, lower back, quads etc).


So in that way compound are being overrated (for mass).

You make me laugh

 

[tzan]

Barbell Bench Press-way overated!!(but still is an effective lift)

Cable Pulldowns-useless!!

 

[XAX]

Well exercises have NOTHING to do with growth. They just determine which muscles get worked.

How ignorant could one person allowed to be?

Muscles alone?

So forget about GH and test release by the big compound movements, strengthing multiple joints and ligaments at the same time.

It has been proved by russian scientists that squatting can add up to 15% extra mass on the arms.

 

[supersizeme]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Most overrated exercises.......

Let me elaborate.

People keep telling how you have to do squat/dead/bench, isolation (pec deck flys etc) dont work they say.

Well exercises have NOTHING to do with growth. They just determine which muscles get worked.

Furthermore, big compound movements are good for strength. But they dont make a certain bodypart grow bigger than an isolation exercise for it.

IF you know how to do stuff you can get lots of mass with isolation movements, sometimes even more than with compound movements. Because compound movements sometimes have a big tendency to involve other parts, thus less direct stimulation to the target muscle (chest, lower back, quads etc).


So in that way compound are being overrated (for mass).

You're an idiot. Stop posting this drivel.

 

[MaCPiMP1n]

Leg Extensions

 

[ZZuluZ]

Holy fucking sheet I can't believe what Alex just posted. Seriously dude...open up any textbook about weightlifting. You know less than weightlifting than my grandma who hasn't touched a weight in her life.

Anyway:

Leg extensions
Leg Curls
Concentration Curls
Lat pulldowns
FLYES
Cable shit
pec deck

Actually, pretty much 90% of machines and isolation exercises.

-Zulu

 

[brianmincher]

Pec Dec.

and a distant second:

Leg press. I can press as much as our machine can hold for 15 reps, and during the whole time I worked leg presses heavily, my squat went nowhere. After I quit leg pressing and focused on my posterior chain, my squat began going up.

B

 

[Haz]

I have to say the Barbell Bench Press. 95% of people use this as their core chest exercise, but I don't think its anything special.

Personally, it places too much stress on my shoulders and wrists. I get much more chest involvement from incline barbell presses, and flat and incline dumbell presses.

But, I guess it depends on your bodytype. Mine just doesn't seem suited for flat barbell benching. I've just about stopped doing the exercise, and I'm still getting good results.

 

[Y_lifter]

BB Bench also rarely gets done by me due to the fact that all the Bench's(6) are in use by the stick boys club, MLS sufferers or the chronic Daily Bencher's..

I use the rarely used and usually available Adjustable bench's with heavy DB for the pressing sets.

 

[javaguru]

IMO,

Machines