ITT: Post your least favorite exercises

> pic related is the hardest fricking thing to go to failure with I swear

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  1. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Has to be the bench press since I don't really feel chest growing compared to dips.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Can't feel my chest during dips at all, it's all just shoulder discomfort plus triceps burn

      https://i.imgur.com/s20A7Vo.jpg

      Pushups. I'm built like an ape (long torso, long arms with an especially long humerus, short legs) so they fatigue the shit out of me and I need to try way harder at them than most exercises

      Lmao, are you fat?

      Anyway, Front Squats > Back Squats

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Nope, just gibbon mode

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >tfw can't get into front squat position with any real weight

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Asterisk means there's a significant difference right? So basically there's no difference between front squats and back squats besides slightly greater activation of one of the quadriceps muscles.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          homie what? The Rectus Femoris and Vastus Lateralis still outperform the back squat? The quads consist of the lateral, medial and intermedial vastus and the rectus femoris on top of them. Quadriceps = 4 heads.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            I am well aware of the anatomy. And that is not what the chart is showing.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              My brother in Christ, the blue one is the front squat and it's higher in every way in terms of quads.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                My guy, the asterisk on the graph means that the only significant difference in muscle activation between the two exercises is with vastus medialis. Learn to read data.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                So what about the rectus femoris and vastus lateralis data?

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                No significant difference, that's what I'm saying. These bar graph charts can be misleading. Just because there appears to be a difference doesn't mean that the difference is statistically significant. The asterisk shows that there is only a significant difference in the activation of one of the four heads of the quadriceps femoris between the two exercises.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Just keep practising.
      I used to not get good engagement on bench but since fixing my form and focusing on the mind muscle connection, my chest really burns and Im seeing good gainz.
      I think my other muscles were compensating.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Dips dont do anything for your delts though, you'll end up with a disproportionately larger chest than shoulders
      t. fell for the weighted dips meme

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >t. fell for the weighted dips meme

        I fell for that shit and ended with pain and tendinitis in my shoulder even tought my execution was ok

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          I seriously hurt my left shoulder doing standing OHP, so frick OHP. 2 weeks no workout already...gonna be 2 more weeks i guess. And pullups are difficult as well.

          Shit form. Stop blaming perfectly safe exercises

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Dips dont do anything for your delts though, you'll end up with a disproportionately larger chest than shoulders
      t. fell for the weighted dips meme

      >dips
      They're best for working **lower pecs and triceps** from what I've heard from gym trainers.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        yes dips are based and you can go pretty heavy with them for lots of stimulus and work your stabilizers.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      squeeze your back together, arch your lower back a little, and bring the bar just a little below your breasts. Then focus on squeezing your elbows together from that position and you will feel it in your chest and the bar will naturally rise. Just learned this the other day and it's helped me immensely, hope it works for you anon

  2. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Pushups. I'm built like an ape (long torso, long arms with an especially long humerus, short legs) so they fatigue the shit out of me and I need to try way harder at them than most exercises

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      same my homie

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Absolutely same, I’ve got very long arms and push-ups were my worst event for the APFT when I was in the Army.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      lmao same
      >Can rep out 40kg on weighted dips easily
      >Can barely do 20 clean push ups in a row

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >Pushups. I'm built like an ape (long torso, long arms with an especially long humerus, short legs) so they fatigue the shit out of me and I need to try way harder at them than most exercises
      I think i am the same. Not that extreme but def got a longer torso and shorter legs. Idk about arm length it might be longer? Is this body type good or bad? Some say its good for fighting because of low center of gravity or some shit? I find push ups weighted to be extremely taxing lift in general.

      lmao same
      >Can rep out 40kg on weighted dips easily
      >Can barely do 20 clean push ups in a row

      I can do weighted push ups with 40kg added, at least 5 reps, probably 7 at max. I can barely do 20 push ups wither. Its an endurance vs strength thing, if i where to train push ups for reps i think my sets would shoot up pretty quickly.

  3. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    that's why it's arguably my favorite. ultimate mogger and builds great aesthetics

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      https://i.imgur.com/m76Xvww.jpg

      > pic related is the hardest fricking thing to go to failure with I swear

      Pull ups and weighted pull ups are the best exercises probably ever made, stop being a loser OP and ascend further

  4. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I can't do these for the life of me

    I'm not fat, I can do chinups just fine, but I feel like I'm doing these completely wrong or something because I just stall out in the very beginning after like one rep.

    So I guess I hate these the most.

  5. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    this is so uncomfortable I started to just do it with a dumbbell instead

  6. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    This is my least favorite exercise. And I have to do it against my will.

  7. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Anything to do with abs

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Same. Every ab exercise make me nausious

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Same

      At least deadlifts are satisfying

  8. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I agree.
    after my 3rd year of weighted calisthenics overhead pull day is my most dreaded day of the week. I used to hate leg days but now that switch to hams+glutes day and calves+quads day it hasn't been so bad.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      what calisthenics exercises do you use for legs?

  9. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    *core abs exercise is least favorite*

    ***Faves***:
    1. flat incline and decline bench press bp
    2. overhead press ohp
    3. front squats/back squats

  10. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I hate all of them. But I hate myself even more.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Muhammad ali literally suffered for most of his life after boxing. All those concussions turned his brain to mush, turns out the rope-a-dope method is fricking moronic kek

      It's actually really sad seeing how he turned out, and Floyd mayweather will get to enjoy his life because he didn't get clobbered in the head

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Dude, he had brain chemistry malfunction, there are people who get much more punishment and don't have Parkinson (although being punchy probably a thing, but American footballers have more severe cte damage anyway)
        Most people who get Parkinson are didn't took punches in the head

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          he would've been a punch drunk moron like every other older boxer still even if he didn't have parkinson's. maybe worse because of his later career.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Why didn't he dedicate his life to do something he liked instead? Now he spent half his life doing something he hates and is spending the other half being too moronic to enjoy life.

  11. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >least favorite exercises

    everything from leg day

  12. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    > after some point which is like 3 rir or even more you suddenly feel zero fricking strength
    > no will to continue even though you feel you must
    > "ok I'll just... hang there for a bit and get my mind together"
    > hanging quickly sucks out the final bit of strength you searching for
    > you are now totally and completely impotent, sucked dry of all your might
    > you let go in the shittiest possible manner and the friction of the bar sets your fricking callouses on fire, making them like x5 times the size
    N-next time...

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Jesus hell man. If you can only do 3 of these go to the lat pulldown machine until you can do at least ten in a row

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >what is rir

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          > doesn't know what rir is
          The absolute state of this fricking board

          Post was too long, didn't read

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        > doesn't know what rir is
        The absolute state of this fricking board

  13. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Leg press.

  14. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Can relate. I hate pull ups.
    And every time I look up or ask here how to do them correctly, reading the description makes my head hurt.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >can't figure out how to pull your body up to a ledge to save yourself from falling
      Genetic dead end. KYS

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Good thing there are no ledges I can fall off around.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >good thing there are no predators I have to fly away from around

  15. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Standing OHP
    Neck is kill

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I kinda hurt my neck today on my last rep. Not a tweak, but like full neck soreness. Juicy delts are worth it tho

  16. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Legs.

  17. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >least favorite exercise
    no such thing, I just go for it, till my body gives up

  18. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    My current Push A begins with Barbell rows and Pull ups, its fricking misery.
    Pendulum squat is probably the most difficult exercise though.

  19. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    My hands keep fricking slipping from the bar every tim I do pull ups.

  20. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Dumbbell Lunges

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      correct

  21. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I hate tricep isolations of any type

  22. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    barbell rows

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I can never do these right for some reason.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        just do a ton of them for a couple months 15-20+ rep sets, with drop sets of course, you will begin to feel it destroy your back
        also watch this a couple times https://youtu.be/rNjwZ1fxtCQ

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      this

      I can never do these right for some reason.

      same bro, and if i do a couple right i can never finish the set

  23. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Pulled my left bicep slightly doing pullups earlier and now I feel a weird jiggle when I run. Only a bit painful only when I fully flex but otherwise no pain - what do?

  24. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I seriously hurt my left shoulder doing standing OHP, so frick OHP. 2 weeks no workout already...gonna be 2 more weeks i guess. And pullups are difficult as well.

  25. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    bulgarian split squats

  26. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

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  27. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Lying leg hamstring curl machine is the most moronic fricking thing in the gym by far. Can't figure out how to set up the machine, no matter how I set it up it always feels wrong and puts pressure on the knees. Also you are leaning hunched over face down pointed at the floor which just isn't the position I want to be in for exercise. Just do glute ham raises or rdl. I'm never doing this fricked exercise ever again.

  28. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Leg Press.

    I'm always paranoid when doing them and I just feel like I'm doing a shitty version of the squat.

  29. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Long distance running.

    Beats the frick out of my joints and tendons as well as triggers every single one of my old long term injuries.
    Doing 5 miles is enough to frick me up for a whole week at best. Longer if my knee or hip snap another tendon. I can't really afford to lose another one.

    I am also just not convinced it is all that useful or good of a exercise.
    I prefer a brisk walk, doing sprints, or something low impact like riding my bike.
    Hell, I feel less banged up doing hard contact sparing for 5 rounds.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Long distance running is a meme and actually bad for you, sure u can brag that u can run a full marathon but compare marathon olympians to sprint ones. Any type of extreme endurance based stress to your muscles is more harmful than beneficial, youre better off sticking to sprints

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Its a duration and tolerance thing. If you want to be able to run longer then you first have to cut down your on your running time/milage and run shorter and allow your body to get more conditioned for running. If you don't run often and then go on a 5mile run then you are pretty much maxing out on the running, its like if someone where to squat rarely and they go in the gym for a intense squatting session and they just squat and squat even though their knees and back start hurting they just keep squatting. How wise is that? Its not the running it self that is bad, its that you are overdoing it. A 5mile jog fricks me up too, but 2-3 years ago even just running 30 minutes fricked me up, now i can go for 1:45 min before i get fricked up. And yes its always the knees and hips that limits the amount i can run. If i stop right before i start getting discomfort and pain by running then i can run more during the week on several different workouts. But i take a long run and push it then my feet need a weak at least, just like you. And i been out regularly for 2 weeks stretches during my running career because i keep pushing it to much. But my tolerance have gone up every single year and i can run for longer before i get fricked up. It is VERY RARELY the activity it self that fricks people up, its how people do them that fricks them up.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Its a duration and tolerance thing. If you want to be able to run longer then you first have to cut down your on your running time/milage and run shorter and allow your body to get more conditioned for running. If you don't run often and then go on a 5mile run then you are pretty much maxing out on the running, its like if someone where to squat rarely and they go in the gym for a intense squatting session and they just squat and squat even though their knees and back start hurting they just keep squatting. How wise is that? Its not the running it self that is bad, its that you are overdoing it. A 5mile jog fricks me up too, but 2-3 years ago even just running 30 minutes fricked me up, now i can go for 1:45 min before i get fricked up. And yes its always the knees and hips that limits the amount i can run. If i stop right before i start getting discomfort and pain by running then i can run more during the week on several different workouts. But i take a long run and push it then my feet need a weak at least, just like you. And i been out regularly for 2 weeks stretches during my running career because i keep pushing it to much. But my tolerance have gone up every single year and i can run for longer before i get fricked up. It is VERY RARELY the activity it self that fricks people up, its how people do them that fricks them up.

      And to add to this, i could prescribe a hill sprinting program or a biking program that would you up too just like long distance running.

  30. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Bear crawls.

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