rolling your shoulders forward and backwards while shrugging. its super fun on your shoulders and really hits the traps *end sarcasm
[quote]phishfood1128 wrote:
chest supported t-bar rows[/quote]
x2
This exercise is extremely uncomfortable if you are using any kind of heavy weight. Impossible to breath.
Military press. Standing or seated. Every time I do it, it just plain hurts. I switch over to very wide grip pull ups and all is well.
[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
Anything done with a kettlebell. The modern dumbbell is a far superior piece of equipment.
Flame away, but I’m sticking to it. [/quote]
I’d say most of the kettlebell fanatics are clueless. I’m a fan if its being used for cardio (snatches for reps), but not as ‘THE ultimate strength builder, etc’
most useless: Why do people bother doing machine leg curls & extensions?
[quote]countingbeans wrote:
pro.nub wrote:
countingbeans wrote:
pro.nub wrote:
Shrugs.
I think deadlifts and cleans build the traps nicely without any other exercises.
How big are your traps?
I don’t know, I haven’t measured them. However, they are certainly not a weak point. For me, at least, deads and cleans have built my traps to be proportional to the rest of my body.
Okay,
Can we have ANY of your stats? Maybe a picture?
[/quote]
It doesn’t matter.
His traps pale in comparison to SrJoker. pro.nub shall now have trap envy.
[quote]mombasa333 wrote:
Military press. Standing or seated. Every time I do it, it just plain hurts. I switch over to very wide grip pull ups and all is well.[/quote]
umm so you decided to do back work for your shoulders?
this isn’t what you don’t like, its what doesn’t work
tricep kickbacks, back squats for quads - imo hack squats and leg press work.
[quote]Ironfreak wrote:
countingbeans wrote:
pro.nub wrote:
countingbeans wrote:
pro.nub wrote:
Shrugs.
I think deadlifts and cleans build the traps nicely without any other exercises.
How big are your traps?
I don’t know, I haven’t measured them. However, they are certainly not a weak point. For me, at least, deads and cleans have built my traps to be proportional to the rest of my body.
Okay,
Can we have ANY of your stats? Maybe a picture?
It doesn’t matter.
His traps pale in comparison to SrJoker. pro.nub shall now have trap envy.[/quote]
This is true.
Cable crossovers/flyes/presses
Preacher Curl
Decline crunches
[quote]The Austrian Oak wrote:
phishfood1128 wrote:
chest supported t-bar rows
x2
This exercise is extremely uncomfortable if you are using any kind of heavy weight. Impossible to breath.[/quote]
I beg to differ. I love them, you just need not to put all your weight on your chest. Support some of they weight with your chest and some with your legs.
Then again it depends on the machine you are using. If your legs are not on the ground then yeah it must sucks.
[quote]KyleT wrote:
Dumbell shadow boxing.[/quote]
If youve seen someone doing this its probably because they are training as a boxer or want to kick the shit out of themselves.
Either way its a damned good exercise. Fighting is hard work and sometimes it takes everything you have just to keep your hands up so that your face doesnt get punched off. Dumbell shaddow boxing helps with this.
For my money the most overrated exercise ive seen is walking at 2 miles an hour while reading a womens magazine and chatting with friends, its very popular at the gym i go to.
I don’t think there are really any exercises that are completely useless. I could pretty much argue with everyones responses so far. Some exercises are just impossible to use for overload, but are good for high rep/burn out sets.
Exercises that I find uncomfortable - dumbell flies and upright rows
any kind of direct arm work is totally pointless. so are leg extensions, curls, or any other exercise like that. Leg Press is just dumb because we have squats, and anything but pull ups and deadlifts for your back is just retarded. Shoulder work is pointless with heavy benching your already taking care of that.
Moving my eyes back and forth to read this thread was the most useless exercise…
[quote]tubbynewb wrote:
KyleT wrote:
Dumbell shadow boxing.
If youve seen someone doing this its probably because they are training as a boxer or want to kick the shit out of themselves.
Either way its a damned good exercise. Fighting is hard work and sometimes it takes everything you have just to keep your hands up so that your face doesnt get punched off. Dumbell shaddow boxing helps with this.
For my money the most overrated exercise ive seen is walking at 2 miles an hour while reading a womens magazine and chatting with friends, its very popular at the gym i go to.[/quote]
Have you ever been in a commercial gym? theres no way so many skinny white kids are learning to box. Especially when they just come in, do some curls, stare at their hawt abz and in between “sets” they shadow box with 2.5 lb dumbbells.
This argument is kind of silly
one persons junk anothers gold.
Yes there is dumb ass shit like 99.5% things Bosu,
everyone is different
different physiology
different goals
[quote]Zackgsc wrote:
any kind of direct arm work is totally pointless. so are leg extensions, curls, or any other exercise like that. Leg Press is just dumb because we have squats, and anything but pull ups and deadlifts for your back is just retarded. Shoulder work is pointless with heavy benching your already taking care of that.
Moving my eyes back and forth to read this thread was the most useless exercise…[/quote]
depends on your goals.
[quote]JoabSonOfZeruiah wrote:
Zackgsc wrote:
any kind of direct arm work is totally pointless. so are leg extensions, curls, or any other exercise like that. Leg Press is just dumb because we have squats, and anything but pull ups and deadlifts for your back is just retarded. Shoulder work is pointless with heavy benching your already taking care of that.
Moving my eyes back and forth to read this thread was the most useless exercise…
depends on your goals.[/quote]
This was posted in a Bodybuilding forum, I would hope most everyone has the same goals as me or i’ve been wasting my time.
[quote]tubbynewb wrote:
KyleT wrote:
Dumbell shadow boxing.
If youve seen someone doing this its probably because they are training as a boxer or want to kick the shit out of themselves.
Either way its a damned good exercise. Fighting is hard work and sometimes it takes everything you have just to keep your hands up so that your face doesnt get punched off. Dumbell shaddow boxing helps with this.
For my money the most overrated exercise ive seen is walking at 2 miles an hour while reading a womens magazine and chatting with friends, its very popular at the gym i go to.[/quote]
As a boxer I would have to say that there are better ways to build endurance and conditioning in your shoulders.
Performing punching movements with bumbell just messes up the mechanics of the movement and can actually make you slower. A lot of gyms/trainers still do it because its tradition.
Pectoral Flies (of any sort) always hurt my shoulders, so for me, they are useless.
I do not understand the hate for shrugs though. I think where most people go wrong with them, or why them dont get anything out of them is because they dont go heavy enough. I see a bunch of guys in the gym shrugging with maybe 225, when they could/should be doing something like 405.
[quote]Zackgsc wrote:
JoabSonOfZeruiah wrote:
Zackgsc wrote:
any kind of direct arm work is totally pointless. so are leg extensions, curls, or any other exercise like that. Leg Press is just dumb because we have squats, and anything but pull ups and deadlifts for your back is just retarded. Shoulder work is pointless with heavy benching your already taking care of that.
Moving my eyes back and forth to read this thread was the most useless exercise…
depends on your goals.
This was posted in a Bodybuilding forum, I would hope most everyone has the same goals as me or i’ve been wasting my time.[/quote]
I feel direct arm work is what will make you get bigger biceps, because if your doing pull ups to failure, you want to because your back gave out first and not your biceps, flys for chest are useful if you are shoulder dominate in bench or just have crappy mind muscle connection, lateral raises and rear delt raises are also useful, so are dumbbell, barbell, cable, inverted rows and face pulls for back, leg press will get you huge quads, and there’s also lunges.
i was being sarcastic, I guess i wasn’t clear I thought you realized that and were going against me.
My bad