Most overrated exercise?

[alexanderberg]

In your opinion, what is the most overrated exercise and why?

[akmusclehamster]

Flat BB Bench

EDIT: I do believe it is a good exercise of course but overhyped as the "king of upper body lifts"

[SexyBack1]

Working out is overrated.

[chazzy1864]

Squats.

[Arman6]

probably squats... how people say its a "full body exercise"

[Jfern689]

Flat Barbell Bench Press. I recently discover Decline is way better.

[MiguelG700707]

Bucycles

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[softpounder]

Bicep Curls. My gym has ton of 12-17 years old doing 20 sets of bicep curls.

[mtownballer20]

Flat BB Bench, many other ways to kill chest. And by all means its the most "bro" lift of them all.

[DJAuto]

Flat BB Bench

EDIT: I do believe it is a good exercise of course but overhyped as the "king of upper body lifts"

This, especially for bodybuilders.

[GeneralSerpant]

Donkey calf-raises. Are they standing calf-raises, or seated calf-raises? Please.

[rmwing]

Ima go with the crowd and say Flat BB Bench, a combo of incline and decline is better IMO.

Also as was mentioned above I don't like how people think squats are a full body lift and say they will put on mass everywhere.

[GeneralSerpant]

I think deadlifts are more of a full-body workout than Squats. Squats are too localized to the lower-body, overall.

[NZninja101]

Deadlifts.

[MichaelCJ]

Low bar squat, conventional deadlift, and flat barbell bench. For bodybuilding, that is.

Of those, flat barbell bench might be the "best" for that purpose though, IMO. As part of a comprehensive program, before someone insists on going down that path, lol.

But for similar lifts, I would instead choose high bar squatting (fronts, if preferred), SLDL (or RDL, perhaps), and DBBP. Plus a plethora of other things.

[EML84]

Bicep Curls. My gym has ton of 12-17 years old doing 20 sets of bicep curls.

http://articles.elitefts.com/trainin...-biceps-curls/

[EML84]

Max effort leg pressing. I never see people do this correctly. Overloading the sled with plates, to push them a few inches with hands on knees. What a bunch of bullsh*t.

[Jfern689]

Max effort leg pressing. I never see people do this correctly. Overloading the sled with plates, to push them a few inches with hands knees. What a bunch of bullsh*t.

And of course they leave the plates in there as well.

[EML84]

And of course they leave the plates in there as well.

They wouldn't have gone full retardouche if they didn't. And you know they wanna go full on with it.

[Dsewell13]

Max effort leg pressing. I never see people do this correctly. Overloading the sled with plates, to push them a few inches with hands on knees. What a bunch of bullsh*t.

totally agree.

[JoshKukl]

I feel as if most exercises are rated pretty appropriately to be honest. Flat barbell bench and squats are both great exercises. Possibly the best two.

[JoshKukl]

Max effort leg pressing. I never see people do this correctly. Overloading the sled with plates, to push them a few inches with hands on knees. What a bunch of bullsh*t.

I wouldn't call this overrated.. while people do it.... a ton of people, such as yourself and mine, **** upon it.

[LuckSide]

Deadlift

[mtownballer20]

Max effort leg pressing. I never see people do this correctly. Overloading the sled with plates, to push them a few inches with hands on knees. What a bunch of bullsh*t.

And of course they leave the plates in there as well.

Wait, your suppose to take the plates off

[Micheal88]

Deadlift

[boardroom]

The deadlift is not overrated. I do believe it is the king of exercises, over the squat - but the deadlift doesn't have that same aura as the squat. It isn't prepped up as the exercise you need to do 3 times a week in order to build a good body like squats are. I'd say the most overrated exercise in general is the flat bench with a barbell though.

[MassiveKent]

curls probably. everything else such as bench, deadlift, squat when performed well will give you great value. curls seem to stop giving after a while. rather do chins, rows, etc. arms are always getting thicker on those.

i just hate seeing people start a pull day with curls and not realising how much theyre affecting their rows, pulls, etc.

[igregie]

The most overrated exercise would have to be Flat Barbell Bench Press.

[5erious]

Sex

[Jfern689]

Another overrated exercise in my opinion the ****ing Pec Deck. Especially when someone thinks doing 20 sets on it will make them the next Mr.Olympia.