Forum: Exercises

Pendlay problem. Or is it? I find that I can pull more with better form if, between reps, I dip down above the waist (hinge stays static), lose tension in my arms, and pop back up to get tight and pull the slack out again. Breathing between reps is more natural this way too. I don’t do it for...

Hello people, Got a few questions, I have been going to the gym for about 8 months give or take. I hit with everything at the start till I had a back injury that really messed me up for about a week. I looked into on how to recover and heal it and it worked pretty fast, 2 weeks after that I was...

For those of you that squat at least twice per week, which variations do you use? Same for both are all, different rep ranges? 2 variations or more, same or different ranges? I’ve been doing high bar 2x/wk at 6-8 and 9-12, but I’m considering dropping the 9-12 for BB hack squats 9-12 to focus on...

*dedicated It doesn’t have to be complicated, time consuming or require tons of reps (or any “reps” at all) Some favorites of mine: Goblet squat iso holds High planks Back extension iso holds Ab wheel rollouts

The PPL program I’ve been following for the past 6-7 months instructs to do deadlifts 1x5 once a week (with barbell rows replacing the deadlift on the other pull day of the week). Recently, for a month or so, I’ve plateaued at 85kg / 187lbs. I’ll just barely get out 3-4 reps but can’t reach 5...

Hi All, I have started to follow a routine for many of my exercises where I do 4 sets, 12,10,8 and 6 reps and I increase the weight each set with the last set of 6 reps being the max weight I can lift for that exercise, and try to go to maybe 7 reps. My question for those who uses similar...

Made an account so I could see if anyone in the community has heard of/experienced this issue. I’ve worked out regularly for the past 20+ years; always incorporated military press. I’d say in the last three years I’ve had this issue. Usually after the third rep I literally start blacking out....

What are the best exercises to build mid back that de-emphasize the upper traps? I do not look good with big upper traps and am seeking to de-emphasize them. I used to do seal rows with no problems, may go back to them. I recently switched from regular seated row to a wide-grip bar, to hit...

Ok, I'm a newbie, and I need some advice, please. I have a ruptured disc in my neck, caused by increasing weight too quickly on farmer carries. I stopped lifting for a couple of years but I'm back now but I'm quickly realizing the using abarbell, even on the smith machine is extremely painful...

On the single-arm dumbbell overhead tricep extension, my right arm is stronger / can do more reps than my left (eg R 10reps, L 8reps). Is this a problem? Should I be able to do the same amount of reps with each arm?

Weighted pull ups are probably my favourite exercise so I just want to make sure I’m doing them properly and not doing anything that’ll kill me. -I grip the bar firmly -Roll back my shoulder blades (yes or no?) -I pull myself up, make sure to stay in a straight, vertical line with my legs...

Is it a DB Chest Press or a machine Chest Press? I’m following Candito’s Linear Program Hypertrophy/Strength and it includes chest Press and Incline Chest Press. I’d really appreciate if you could clear this up for me. Thanks.

Hey, I'm doing Starting Strength now, and a good friend of mine told me he met couple of people doing crossfit (at different times). He told me they were jacked and had a nice muscle mass. I told him it is because they eat well, and when you do that, you'll get bigger (if you train of course)....

Does anyone do these? I use a fixed barbell to superset upright rows with these. They’re a lot like doing skiers with hammer grip dumbbells. I find it hits rear delts much better for me than face pulls or reverse pec deck. My side delts and rear delts just get hit much better when doing a compound...

I took a bodybuilding class in college. I think what I heard from that and in fitness magazines was that body parts you exercise should have a rest of one or two days. I've been thinking about that. Let's say there is an obese person. Every step they take on the stairs is like doing a lower body...

Are there different muscles worked in the kneeling face pulls and lying pulls? Can’t seem to find anything on google about the differences, are there any? Also, when doing kneeling face pulls, is it necessary to switch the kneeling knee halfway through the set? I do it just in case, but I’m not...

My left elbow has been experiencing tendonitis on-and-off for months. I have tried reducing the frequency of my workouts to accommodate, to no avail. A few days ago I was doing trap bar deadlifts and the pain was so sharp and severe I had to stop after the 1st working set. It’s gotten to the...

For me, it's a chest press in the smith machine done with the v-handle used for cable rows. I've seen two guys going at it at the gym a while ago and again another 2 recently. The first ones weren't beginners. The ROM is shorter than a TikTok video and seems very uncomfortable. Second one...

Hi, I spent quite a while using the chest press machine without using dumbbells or barbells before realising that I was kinda wasting my time. A couple of months ago I trained with a friend and tried dumbbell chest press for the first time in a while. I could only get the 37.5kg dumbbells up at...