Exercises that you are fond of that you never see anyone doing

[SP1966]

1. Weighted dips.
2. BB curls.... in the squat rack!

[bamazav]

You can do these with a power cage. I do. Put the bar all the way down to the stops, put weight on it, lock your heals, and you are good to go.

Hmmmm....I'll have to give that a try. Thanks.

I train at home so I only see what I do. I love goblets, haven't done them in a while. I also built my own reverse Hyper bench for my rack. Attached is a terrible picture of it. Not much but it works and was made for about $20. I am going to tweak it soon, to improve how it holds the weights.

[logotype702]

1. hammer curls
2. pull overs
3. fly (rarely seen..amazing)
4. chest dips

[gbg]

Squats past parrallel

[pac8x8]

Squats past parrallel

I see people doin' that all the time while rounding their lower backs, but my legs are still larger than & I stop above parallel.

[djflex]

db side bends for the obliques....sometimes they use the goofy machine for twists but thats about it. also no one ever warms up with broomstick twists except me, they really help loosen my lower back for my session

[Marius_Ursus]

Turkish getups.

[djflex]

Turkish getups.

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also welcome back have not seen you post in awhile

[White_Chocolate]

db side bends for the obliques....sometimes they use the goofy machine for twists but thats about it.

Unfortunately I see women doing these all the time. I'm sure they think they're "burning" the fat (love handles) when in fact, all they're doing is adding size to their waist. You will NOT catch me doing these anytime

[Marius_Ursus]

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also welcome back have not seen you post in awhile

It's any move that starts with you lying on the floor with a weight (or two) and end with you standing on your feet.

Here's one of my favorite variations:

[ddfox]

spider curls

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1U6NgZUg6Zk

[pac8x8]

Unfortunately I see women doing these all the time. I'm sure they think they're "burning" the fat (love handles) when in fact, all they're doing is adding size to their waist. You will NOT catch me doing these anytime

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[ntallyfl]

No matter what exercise you do, somebody will come along and say that it's bad for you because of _________. Like they've read the most recent "research" that suddenly proclaims that that exercise will cause you a great deal of harm and is bad for your _______.

The only time I've had an injury from doing any exercise was when I was squatting and a hot girl walked by with her ass hanging out of her shorts and breasts bursting out. I instinctively turned to get a better look while squatting and wrenched the hell out of my back.

Other than that incident, I've done all harmful exercises without injury.

[dm3mdgtr]

Not at all sure what they are called. I saw a guy who was in pretty good shape doing them at my old gym so I incorporated them in my shoulder/trap day. Works really well and I've never seen anyone else doing them.


Take 20's in each hand and let your arms dangle by your sides. Raise them straight up with elbows locked until the weights are about mouth high (your hands should be facing each other). After that expand your arms out to the sides mimicking a cross (elbows still locked). Keep them extended for a 3 count then come back in and then down.


Hopefully that will make sense.

[dungeonmistress]

Romanian deads and weighted hyperextensions using a 50 lb dumbbell and holding for a count of 3 at the top of each rep.

[CrazyEnough]

Pullovers
Front squats

[Mark1T]

Long-Bar Rows


Thank you

[IR45N]

Cambered bar presses; flat, incline or decline. A few of the guys use it now & then for incline & decline same, myself. You really need to be careful not to go too deep.

[Bob45]

Just talked to a guy that used to belong to Planet Fitness. He quit that gym. They wouldn't let him do standing military presses. The presses had to be seated.

[kimm4]

Overhead squats
Floor wipers (my fav exercise for abs!)

[gbg]

Overhead squats
Floor wipers (my fav exercise for abs!)

Overhead squats rock!

what are floor wipers? need some new ab exercises.

[Bo_Flecks]

Weighted pull ups.

I've seen lots of people doing different types of cable pull downs on machines, but I've rarely seen many people hook weights to a dip belt and proceed to do pull ups.

I love'em.

[plmb1]

Weighted pull ups.

I've seen lots of people doing different types of cable pull downs on machines, but I've rarely seen many people hook weights to a dip belt and proceed to do pull ups.

I love'em.

The reason you don't see very many peeps doing weighted pullups is because most peeps have a hard time with just bw......let alone adding weight....

As for me.......I've just worked my way up to a 25lb and 2 1/2lb plate for 9 reps.....

Not to long ago (maybe 1 1/2 years or so I could only get 11 with just bw..

[hemingersl]

Man that's one of my biggest pet peeves...showing up to do squats...in the squat rack and having some guy, usually with the matchstick legs I mentioned earlier, monopolizing the rack with curls! Ugh!

1. Weighted dips.
2. BB curls.... in the squat rack!

[Old_swole]

Man that's one of my biggest pet peeves...showing up to do squats...in the squat rack and having some guy, usually with the matchstick legs I mentioned earlier, monopolizing the rack with curls! Ugh!

I think we should have a discussion about doing squats in the curl rack...uh I mean squat rack.

[hemingersl]

That might be true but the simple fact is you're causing, according to soft tissue expert and frequent contributor to ironman mag, Joseph Horrigan, a good deal of shearing to the cartilage in your knees by artificially stopping the the lift where stress on that cartilage hits it at a weak and thin area.

I see people doin' that all the time while rounding their lower backs, but my legs are still larger than & I stop above parallel.

[hemingersl]

Amen to that brother... as well as guys puffing their chests out after loading four wheels on the bar and then maybe breaking at the knees by about 6 inches, lol! What tools!

I think we should have a discussion about doing squats in the curl rack...uh I mean squat rack.

[Old_swole]

Amen to that brother... as well as guys puffing their chests out after loading four wheels on the bar and then maybe breaking at the knees by about 6 inches, lol! What tools!

To be honest I was just being a smart a$$ because we can get some pretty heated arguements going over this subject. I admit i have curled in the squat rack but only after making sure nobody was doing legs at the time. I see your new around here, so I'm sure you will see one of these disputes soon. welcome to the O35!

[deadsheepmill]

Just talked to a guy that used to belong to Planet Fitness. He quit that gym. They wouldn't let him do standing military presses. The presses had to be seated.

WTF?

I left when I saw that the biggest dumbells were 70s. Or maybe it was 60s.

[hemingersl]

...but the point was that there is no need for a non-PLer to do them. You could get the same pump by doing partials with dbells in that range with out adding to the wear and tear to the shoulders of initiating the lift at such an artificial starting point. Actually since the the fibers in the pecs don't fire as effectively in that range, you'd probably get an even better pump by doing dbell partials from the bottom portion of the stroke, ie. x-reps ala Steve Holman and Jonathan Lawson.

That's like saying why would non-PL'ers do rack pulls/partial deads? Good for size imo, I get a great pump doin' floor presses for higher reps. Haven't done 'em in a few months but still.