Forum: Exercises

On a whim I attempted this exercise last chest day. Basically, you hold a dumbbell between two hands, only one, and align it so the heads are parallel with your body, not perpendicularly like normal DB presses. From a lying position, you press the dumbbell up and down like a normal press...

I have weak traps, which because of it, it's not conspicuous that I have a nice body. I'm trying to work on it, but so far, not much success. The personal trainer at the gym (not mine), gave me an exercise to work on my front traps. I searched the net for more exercises on front traps but I...

I am heavy guy, I weigh around 155 kg (340 lbs) and am 192 cm tall (6'3.59). I am a beginner with around 4-5 months of non consecutive experience. My quads are super strong, but my hamstrings and other muscles are all relatively weak compared to my quads. For quads I can do 340 kg (750 lbs) in the...

I get some wrist and elbow pain during presses... even on machines, when I do low reps & high weight. Yes, I keep my elbows under my wrists. Difficult for me to keep my wrists fixed. I was thinking of buying some wrist wraps and use them for a while. From what I've read, they can help with...

hello my triceps are extremely weak especially the long head i can barely do 2.5 kg 8-10 times on the katana ext i train then every Thursday with biceps and forearms and they get trained on compound exercises on other days but they are extremely lacking my arms are 90% biceps can anyone please...

I saw Jeff. C doing reverse flys with a L shape on arms instead of arms parallel to floor. What should be the correct method? sorry can't link the video as I have less than 50 posts 😔

What are your thoughts on this? If we should just do once a week, and compund exercises are the way to go, then for shoulders workout all I have to do is the Military Press and I'm good for the day. I guess that will take about 5-10 minutes of my time...I like that kind of working out!!!

Interested if any of you use them and what you think of them? Recently got the captain crush no.1 (140lbs) but im up to 50 reps for it, so I've just ordered the no.2 (195lbs)

This is for full body, 3-4 days a week. For example, doing leg workouts in between sets of upper body workouts. For example, doing 1 set of bench presses, then a set of leg presses, then bench presses, then leg presses again, etc. Different muscle groups so there's not much conflict. An...

Due to lower back injury I'm not able to do bb squats so today for the first time I did hack squats and felt amazing quad activation, I know squats are king of lower body along with dl which I do(sumo style)but I can't do them,so is it worth it making it primary quad exercise or is it waste of time?

Where is the best place to post form checks? I posted in Reddit stronglift5x5 and formcheck subreddits. Also posted on my fitness pal. I have a trainer, but would like additional comments. Thanks!

.. and what is the accessory? thanks

Can anyone help with my bench press? It is very weak compared to my deadlift and squat. Here are six YouTube videos I took from various directions. You can really see the asymmetry in the overhead view, front view, and also the direct left vs. right views. 1. My Overhead (Bird's Eye View)...

Hey Guys, I have a question about face pulls, I see some people do them as if you hit a double bicep pose and other do them as if they had grabbed a bulls horn or riding a motorcycle grip and pull back. What is the right way to do this exercise, I have been doing it using the double bicep...

I’m not really sure how posting on here works, but I have a question/problem. I am a 20 year old female, and think I have managed to overdevelop my back; not in a sexy way, but so it is too broad for my liking. Tank tops dig in for an unattractive look. It’s not fat, as I am fairly lean. I am not...

So I can do the 50's per hand for 12-13reps full rom but I can't get the 60's up, and there's a dude I saw can only do the 50's for 10 but can do the 70's for 5 wtf is wrong is there something wrong with the rotator cuff or simply lack of mass (5'11 140lbs)?

I'm a pretty big gym noobie who maxes out at 40 for the bench. Tend to use dumbells more often because no spotter. But no matter how little or high my weight or reps, I can't feel the squeeze in my pecs (front of chest). I hold eccentric/concentric, keep elbows at 75 degrees, and pull shoulder...

I used to do the slack pull with just my upper torso, until I re-watched one of PR's Performance's videos on YT and realized you need to use your legs too. So, after I brace, I use my full body to pull slack, without raising the plates on the very end of the bar from the ground. Then I pause like a...

Hi guys! I’m new here, I didn’t really know where to turn for help. I hurt my back last summer doing construction, and fast foward a year I found out today I have had a fractured sacrum this whole time. My parents are freaking out and they won’t let me go to the gym for the next couple...

Has anyone had this? When I'm doing pull ups, dumbell rows or anything similar my elbow has recently started making a soft clicking/grinding sound. I'm hoping that it's some sort of soft tissue injury or instability that's just causing misalignment perhaps, rather than some real damage to the...