Most overrated exercise

**Nitric Oxide** · 12-24-2007, 05:24 PM

What exercise do you dislike but other people like it?? I can't stand skull crushers....Those are worthless IMO

**Charuto222** · 12-24-2007, 05:30 PM

I agree that skulls are a bit overrated but worthless? That's a bit of a stretch, you can do far worse on the tris (kickbacks, for example)

As for me, I would say that pec deck flyes are the most overrated. I just don't see the point in doing them when your bench press and dip variations on the different planes (incline, decline, flat) do everything that the pec deck does and a whole lot more.

**Nitric Oxide** · 12-24-2007, 05:32 PM

Originally Posted by Charuto222

I agree that skulls are a bit overrated but worthless? That's a bit of a stretch, you can do far worse on the tris (kickbacks, for example)

As for me, I would say that pec deck flyes are the most overrated. I just don't see the point in doing them when your bench press and dip variations on the different planes (incline, decline, flat) do everything that the pec deck does and a whole lot more.

lol no way kick backs are the ****...you can feel it way in the upper tri i like that feeling. I try to hold my elbow as high as I can get it and then do the kick backs.

**jdjprimer19** · 12-24-2007, 05:35 PM

Most overrated exercise in terms of popularity for skinny guys like me at the gym = concentration curls

Too many guys my size that focus soley on isolations...

**LegendKiller22** · 12-24-2007, 08:19 PM

Honestly never get a good burn with Decline Bench... As opposed to other chest exercises so rarely perform them

**olinerules87** · 12-24-2007, 11:26 PM

bench press

**burningNun** · 12-25-2007, 03:23 AM

^ x2

**SuperMaine** · 12-25-2007, 03:26 AM

i love incline skull-crushers.......

i think that decline increase your bench alot but i dont get a burn either....

i think that dumbbell pullovers are overrated.....i dont feel it after, but i feel it during...

**John Prophet** · 12-25-2007, 04:56 AM

Arnold Press...WAY overrated

I see all these skinny guys doing Arnold presses yet they arent even doing any type of overhead barbell press

see also---preacher curls, cable x-overs, drop sets

**7Forty7** · 12-25-2007, 06:02 AM

Any freeweight exercise performed on a Swiss ball, and standing ab crunches performed on any surface.

**Leenad** · 12-25-2007, 06:14 AM

Crunches on this gay machine...a lot of people do only that (and curls)

**damnglass** · 12-25-2007, 06:45 AM

dont get me wrong,i love bench press,but what does every one ask when you tell them you lift weights?how much do you bench?i can think of 10 different excercises i use for my chest.i still think my flat bench is my favourite excersise,but its the most well know and overrated,you dont need bench for a big chest,though it sure helps.

**Uriel_da_man** · 12-25-2007, 07:15 AM

Any of the "big 3".

Yes, they're good exercises, but they're still ridiculously overrated around here.

**LungeManiac** · 12-25-2007, 07:30 AM

lol. Any excercise is going to be over rated that doesn't work for you!

Wide FLAT bench press for me. (IMO), it's a glorified RC killer.

MR · 12-25-2007, 07:41 AM

I'll chime in...DUMBELL FLYES!!

Mike

**tommytom** · 12-25-2007, 08:20 AM

Originally Posted by olinerules87

bench press

anybody that mentions bench press should move on to other things in life. training is just not for you.

**shardsofglass** · 12-25-2007, 08:28 AM

Cable Crossovers, pisses me off when guys come in with seven buddies and have a sausage fest on the freakin tower with about 30 lbs on each side. In my head I'm screaming WTF?

**legends159** · 12-25-2007, 09:11 AM

For me:

Bench Press- I prefer DBs over BB.

no shoulder pain whatsoever and I have made the most gains switching over. Can't lift as much probably, but the chest is growing way more than before.

Deadlift- I prefer Rack pulls

no more fear of bad form and I can rack the weight up much more than I can on DLs to work my entire back, including traps and hamstring and grip.

Squats- none. Used to squat, haven't in 4 months and leg hasn't shrunk and still making gains in my upper body (GASP is that really possible???)
Running usually does the trick. Or the bicycle. I'm not trying to get monster legs anyway.

**Big Nes** · 12-25-2007, 09:40 AM

most "isolation" exercises are overrated.

**ThickAsABrick** · 12-25-2007, 09:41 AM

Originally Posted by Big Nes

most "isolation" exercises are overrated.

post a pic of yourself please

show us what we're all missing

**ThickAsABrick** · 12-25-2007, 09:44 AM

This thread is dumb.

It's going to be different for everyone.

*yawn*

**Bodysteele** · 12-25-2007, 09:57 AM

In my gym preacher curls....everyone does preacher curls....its the first exercise for alot of these monkeys. I dont think Yates/cheat Rows are very useful unless you've built up a huge base in normal Pendlay or bent over Rows.....I see tonnes of 160 lb kids cheating horribly on rows with small weight that they could be repping properly if only they took 6-9 months out to actually perform strict rows.

Gotta walk before you can crawl.

Quarter or half squats on a smith machine are overatted because you are better off just leg-pressing.

Anyone saying "bench press" has a misunderstanding of what the bench press is supposed to do for your body.

It isnt a movement meant to isolate the pecs...its an overall mass builder for the upper body and does a good job at it working the triceps/shoulders/pecs and even lats at heavy poundages and adding size to your physique.

I dont think its even 1/3rd as important as squatting but the group-think on BB.com is strong and for some reason benching is now on the "hated" list on here...curiously I find most of the people who hate to bench and think its worthless are the same people who seem to have light poundages in the bench and who struggle in it relative to other lifts....curious indeed.

I haven't performed a Bench press for the last 3 months for the record.

**Bodysteele** · 12-25-2007, 10:02 AM

Originally Posted by legends159

For me:

Bench Press- I prefer DBs over BB.

no shoulder pain whatsoever and I have made the most gains switching over. Can't lift as much probably, but the chest is growing way more than before.

Deadlift- I prefer Rack pulls

no more fear of bad form and I can rack the weight up much more than I can on DLs to work my entire back, including traps and hamstring and grip.

Squats- none. Used to squat, haven't in 4 months and leg hasn't shrunk and still making gains in my upper body (GASP is that really possible???)
Running usually does the trick. Or the bicycle. I'm not trying to get monster legs anyway.

Ah, a fan of PLing I see....lol lol...

Cmon...you cant be serious on squatting being overatted....lets get real for a second.

**schweefy** · 12-25-2007, 10:10 AM

Pec deck = useless IMO and anything done on a smith machine

**SDFlip** · 12-25-2007, 10:13 AM

from a bodybuilding standpoint - the big 3.

**LungeManiac** · 12-25-2007, 10:14 AM

Originally Posted by schweefy

Pec deck = useless IMO and anything done on a smith machine

You may get negged for stating the smith machine. Many body builders swear by it.

**DiamondDelts** · 12-25-2007, 10:18 AM

All exercises. I would rather use a lifting calculator to "calculate" what I could/should be lifting. Lifting in the matrix for the win.

**schweefy** · 12-25-2007, 10:19 AM

Originally Posted by LungeManiac

You may get negged for stating the smith machine. Many body builders swear by it.

That's ok. It's just my opinion. What can you do on a smith machine that you can't do in a rack or elsewhere?

**TinyTex** · 12-25-2007, 10:20 AM

Machines

**Captain Sagara** · 12-25-2007, 10:22 AM

DEADLIFTS IMO...
I mean just because you hit them constantly,you're not gonna get huge and have the thickiest back ever,like many guys claim it would do...

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