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Which exercises do you see people doing with the worst form?
- Thread starter beefybull
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Doing ANY lift too quickly.
Curls, bending their back backwards so they can pull the weight up.
BEHIND THE NECK OVERHEAD PRESSES, my god, this is a crime. Any trainer that shows people to do this should have a plate droped ON their head.
Lateral side rasies with hands pointing down - impinges the shoulders and creates rotator cuff problems.
The idiots who place like 1000 lb on a rack for doing legs, then proceed to move the bar a grand total of like 4 inches.
I am in a bad mood because some dickhead at our gym thought he was having a yelling contest while lifting. What a stupid fuck. To make it worse - I had to keep from plaughing though, I kept think of in Pumping Iron when Arnold told how he convinced that one dude to scream while posing. LOL.
Curls, bending their back backwards so they can pull the weight up.
BEHIND THE NECK OVERHEAD PRESSES, my god, this is a crime. Any trainer that shows people to do this should have a plate droped ON their head.
Lateral side rasies with hands pointing down - impinges the shoulders and creates rotator cuff problems.
The idiots who place like 1000 lb on a rack for doing legs, then proceed to move the bar a grand total of like 4 inches.
I am in a bad mood because some dickhead at our gym thought he was having a yelling contest while lifting. What a stupid fuck. To make it worse - I had to keep from plaughing though, I kept think of in Pumping Iron when Arnold told how he convinced that one dude to scream while posing. LOL.
Curls are a pretty common one, but then again, there are some of us "enlightened" ones that know how to use good form on it.
However, I'd have to say that even more common than form problems on Curls is form problems on Leg Extensions. You always see people raising it by kicking as hard as they can, or doing reps as quickly as possible. It should be one of the slowest movements you do in the gym.
You'll also see a lot of people do Seated Calf Raises just like they do Leg Extensions. They put too much weight on there to do strict reps and just bounce the weight up and down.
However, I'd have to say that even more common than form problems on Curls is form problems on Leg Extensions. You always see people raising it by kicking as hard as they can, or doing reps as quickly as possible. It should be one of the slowest movements you do in the gym.
You'll also see a lot of people do Seated Calf Raises just like they do Leg Extensions. They put too much weight on there to do strict reps and just bounce the weight up and down.
TheDarkSideNinja
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Well....
I think it's usually bench press and curls that i see people doing bad form with the most. They pile the weight on and wham bounce it off their chests for 1 or 2 reps or curl really fast!!! I wonder if they even get a tiny burn!!! O well glad im not that ignorant... ~JT~
I think it's usually bench press and curls that i see people doing bad form with the most. They pile the weight on and wham bounce it off their chests for 1 or 2 reps or curl really fast!!! I wonder if they even get a tiny burn!!! O well glad im not that ignorant... ~JT~
Definately lat pulldowns. They throw on a ton of weight and swing off the bar like an idiot. Who do they think they are fooling anyways. Everyone can see that they can't do it so I don't know why they even bother trying. One of these days I'm gonna grab a bolt cutter and snip their cord mid rep...
gettinlarger
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There's an older guy at my gym, probably in his 50s, who, I swear, does not one exercise correctly. My lifting partner and I refer to him as "The Third," because he does only 1/3 the ROM of any given exercise. Some of the things he does ... I think he made them up ...
Other exercises with shitty form: Squats (the few people I see doing them do them incorrectly), curls, lat pulldowns
Other exercises with shitty form: Squats (the few people I see doing them do them incorrectly), curls, lat pulldowns
PolishHammer1977
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Flat Press
Incline Press
Pull Ups
Bar Rows
Curls
Abs
Squats
Deadlifts
.....come to think of it....almost every exercise I can think of has been done differently or wrong than what I have learned or been taught.
Incline Press
Pull Ups
Bar Rows
Curls
Abs
Squats
Deadlifts
.....come to think of it....almost every exercise I can think of has been done differently or wrong than what I have learned or been taught.
gettinlarger said:
LOL...the 3rd
I have many at my gym like that. We call them "Partials" and "Partials Jr."As for worst form, curls, no question of it. I've seen some shitty pulldowns and terrible quarter squats, but no amount of squirming and momentum like I've seen during BB curls.
One guy I've seen locks his arms at roughly a 45 degree angle, holding the bar and leaning over; he completes his "rep" by just leaning back, swinging the bar in front of his face. His forearm and upper arms remain at the same distance from each other...he's not actually using his biceps much at all.
What really kills me is this guy does this with 65 lbs., and for upwards of 6 straight sets! Why would you cheat with 65 lbs., especially if it's a crappy front delt curl?!
guldukat said:
wow, i didnt realize we worked out in the same gym, i call this guy tricep man. he does dips with his fingers pointing towards each other and moves 3 inches. he does the curl thing you described, he also benches with his but so high of the bench you could dive inbetween the two. but whats even better, when he benches, the but is in the air, but his left arm bends about 3 inches, and his right goes all the way down to his chest, so the bar is at a diaganol angle.
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little chris
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I agree with dante the bounce off the chest press. I'm waiting for someone to crack open their chest cavity.
SofaGeorge
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I've been lifting for 30 years. There isn't a single exercise that I don't see people doing incorrectly every time I go to the gym.
The rare moment is when you see someone doing something in good form.
The rare moment is when you see someone doing something in good form.
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Baoh
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SofaGeorge said:
Ditto.
louden_swain
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Definetely jumping jacks, bear crawls, and stairs.
JollyRogers
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Bench Press & Squats, when I go to the gym..
Also It seems as though I never see ANYONE do deadlifts at the Y and rare to see people doing squats but when they DO, its all wrong ..
Also It seems as though I never see ANYONE do deadlifts at the Y and rare to see people doing squats but when they DO, its all wrong ..
gmanlax7 said:
It is agreed upon here that no one does squats or deads, and yet at my gym(YMCA) there are a lot of "huge" guys who I never see do squats or deads. This leads me to believe that squats and deads are not necessary to get huge. I'm practically the only guy who does deads at my gym and when I see guys who are much bigger than I am not doing deads, I question whether or not I should be doing them to get huge.
I have to say without a doubt the most ridiculous thing I see at the gym is when someone (and this happens about once or twice a month) decides it is time to try olympic lifting...omg and wtf there goes larry with his upright row/french curl hey I think he even dipped his knee a bit..wow all that with 95 lbs. Now I know most people couldn't tell the difference between snatch and a snatch but I lifted olympic with the strictest form for four years and it makes me sick that someone could take something as beautiful as the clean and turn it into the above described abortion...sorry this stuff gets me fired up
DanielBishop
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Tricep kickbacks- Pretty useless exercise anyway, but I often see women swinging the dumbbell from one extreme to the other, almost like doing a flexion and extension movement in the same exercise.
Hip adduction- Women again, using the elastic energy of their hip adductors to swing the thing back and forth. Not uncommon to see them going for 20 minutes or more. Any exercise which you can do for 20 minutes can't have much benefit.
Behind-the-neck-anything.
Lat pulldowns- Hardly anyone does these correctly, but I especially cringe when I see people who bring the bar down so far that it becomes like a triceps pushdown at the end of the movement.
.... and my favourite....
Calf raises (kinda) on the leg press machine. They lock their knees out at full extension, and then bounce the whole stack up and down for a few minutes. Using nothing but muscle elasticity.
I also see some incredible things on the cable crossovers machine.
Hip adduction- Women again, using the elastic energy of their hip adductors to swing the thing back and forth. Not uncommon to see them going for 20 minutes or more. Any exercise which you can do for 20 minutes can't have much benefit.
Behind-the-neck-anything.
Lat pulldowns- Hardly anyone does these correctly, but I especially cringe when I see people who bring the bar down so far that it becomes like a triceps pushdown at the end of the movement.
.... and my favourite....
Calf raises (kinda) on the leg press machine. They lock their knees out at full extension, and then bounce the whole stack up and down for a few minutes. Using nothing but muscle elasticity.
I also see some incredible things on the cable crossovers machine.
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satchboogie
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SofaGeorge said:
yep.
but the worst is when that person preaches to somebody else on how to train properly and they can't even perform a proper curl.
gettinlarger
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I see this kid in my gym. I know he thinks he's a badass. I can just tell. Anyway, he's a tool, who is maybe 16 years, and doesn't do anything with proper form. Yesterday, I caught him doing one armed preachers curls, with maybe 1/2 ROM. He'd bring the DB down, and MAYBE his forearm would be parallel to the ground, and he'd curl it up. Horrible.
There was this older guy at the gym yesterday doing full body speed curls with the EZ bar 
I swear that he wasn't getting more than 10 degrees of movement out of his elbows...the rest of the motion was a combination of shoulders, back, and legs...completely worthless.
JoBu
I swear that he wasn't getting more than 10 degrees of movement out of his elbows...the rest of the motion was a combination of shoulders, back, and legs...completely worthless.JoBu
Lee
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saw some scronny dude tryin to act badass the other day. doing seated dumbell curls with his elbow on his leg. he was doing about 3 full inches of movement in his reps, and he was using his back to tweak the weight up. this guy couldnt have weighed more than 150 but he was about 6 feet tall
Saw some guys doing Smith Machine Shrugs the other day, complete rolling of the shoulders and neck popping forward and back, they looked like chickens pecking at the air.
Shrugs in general you will see people using pretty bad form. It needs to be a slow, controlled movement with NO rolling of the shoulders.
Shrugs in general you will see people using pretty bad form. It needs to be a slow, controlled movement with NO rolling of the shoulders.
little chris
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Glad you reminded me of shrugs Beefy. I remember one time I'm bar shrugging with 315lbs for like 8-10, I'm doing them with perfect form, not rocking my body, not tippy toeing, not rolling my shoulders and this 18yr old fat fuck is looking at me like he's gonna show me a thing or 2. He asks to jump in so I say go ahead, he put on 405lbs and goes to shrug breaking every form I kept not to mention he's maybe moving the bar 2 inches and did like 4 half ass reps, so me and my buddy start laughing hysterically. He puts down the bar and says we broke his concentration my buddy says the only thing broke is your back and your ego, everyone else laughed and he walked to another exercise.
cockdesiel
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rows ......the back must be flat not rounded.......
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