** The WORST EXERCISE You Have Ever Done **

[goahead]

reverse grip french press, the amount of weight i am able to hold in my hands is too low for adequate triceps stress as i am pretty strong using normal grip french presses.

Yes, dumbell laterals, i have found it difficult to make progress with them (with side delts in general).

What worked was to do 3 heavy sets, holding the dumbells in front of you, making speed and throw them up and dont really hold them at the top, followed by three sets of very strict style , starting with dumbells at your sides, away from the body, bring m up under control and hold for a 2 cound, poor some tea and lower slowly.

Other progress in that are came from adding ROTATOR CUFF exercises!!!

 

[Tuna Guy]

whats wrong with bent over rows (yates style)?

Or do you mean the traditional bar to the floor rows.

 

[MonStar1023]

Yo Tuna Guy thats exactly what I was thinking... heavy bentover rows (Yates style) are the best exercise that I ever incorporated in my back routine. They worked wonders for my lats along with front chins and deadlifts... dont ask me bro.

 

[Cackerot69]

They unnecessarily stress the lower back, and oftentimes lower back fatigue will cause you to fail rather than upper back.

 

[Tuna Guy]

And what is wrong with stressing the lower back. If your lower back hurts doing bent over rows you are doing them incorrectly. I bent row 120 for 6 and do not need the use of a belt, nor is my lower back injured, although it is stressed.

 

[MonStar1023]

I know I do bentover rows with around 200-225 lbs. and I never have a probem with my lower back hurting... if I do bentover rows after my heavy deads then its a different story but normally my lower back is fine.

 

[Phemomena]

I never really answered this myself... but I guess I will... I will DEFINITELY say that leg curls are the biggest waste for me omg. I do them and do them and do them and just totally dont get anywhere at all! Damn what a waste. I mean I can feel it in my hamstrings a little bit I guess but I mean they do absolutely nothing at all for me... standing one-legged curls, seated leg curls, lying leg curls... WASTE.

i'd have to agree, (though i keep doing them even though i find they are useless and its about the only exercise i haven't progressed in over the past 6 months or so )

i think it has to do highly with the way the machine is engineered... its not made for all size people... (i'm a short, small boned female)...

you were also talking about the t-bar substitue (with the bb and v-grip)... i've been doing these instead of bentover rows lately and YES, they do work.... quite well i might add.. two things to do, don't use 45 plates (you wont get the same range of motion since they're kinda large in radius, use the 35's at the most and more of 'em, (i use 3 25s)).. you can also get the grip thats kinda like a straight bar but has a v dip in the middle (hopefully you can envision what i'm talking about) and use that grip too... changes the focus, i do about 6-8 sets, alternating the grips ...

(i use that small v-grip thing for EVERYTHING on back day... (pulldowns, low rows, bb rows as described above...) i carry around that thing like i own it hehe... the gym only has one too... guess i really should go buy my own...)

as for cable crunches (someone was having probs with them)... i found the way to REALLY make them work for me was to get a step and two risers, place it in front and kneel on it, but make sure your butt is on your heels... the elevation will make sure that you can really crunch low and gluing your butt to your heels, i find, keeps my back out of the pic totally, it's not standard form but boy am i feeling it where i should be...my abs...

okay and the other exercises that are useless for me, well i dont' really do much i find useles... i like hack squats but i always feel like my feet are slipping out from under me, there's not a good grip on the pad on the one at my gym... just starting to get the hang of front squats (love 'em), not a big fan of dips, but i'm slowly getting the hang of them... sissy squats do nothing for me... don't know if thats me or the exercise...

 

[Brittany1016]

The WORST Exercise for is any type of exercise that doesnt involve eating or sleeping...

I like to eat and eat and eat and eat and then go straight to sleep... and ocassionally have MonStar1023 stick it in my mud. (poopshoot, anal hole, bum hole, crevice, rectal ram, hit up the poop)

I LOVE IT!!!

 

[oompha-loompha]

Cack, your against incline press, bent rows, side laterals. Exactly what kind of excercise do you do except for flyes and wrist curls.

 

[BeastFromTheEast]

I don't like dumbbell pullovers. I can never get them to fatigue my chest or lats at all. All they do to me is aggravate my rotator cuffs