Forum: Exercises

Hi Currently running the reddit PPL program, I've added an extra 3 set of chest flys on the machines because I felt like chest wasn't being hit enough. I am now considering swapping out the fly for a decline bench press or for dips. I am basically lacking in the lower and outer pec right now. ...

Hey guys, Just had a decent back day. Its my third gym sesh in three days, so I was feeling a little fatigued. Rest day tomorrow for sure. I noticed that many back workouts can either be done very controlled, with 1) minimum trunk movement and a squeeze at the end or 2) leaning back,...

I am a 5’8 133 pound female and my gym has recently shut down due to covid once l again :/ I just invested in a pull up bar and have only gotten 4 reps for pull ups/chin ups. I usually do like 5x4 and pause at the bottom. Same goes with dips. Since these two compound exercises are pretty still hard...

So I've been doing the fierce 5 program. I'm also on a cut, but I am trying to gain strength. I don't know what my goal should be in terms of how much weight I am lifting, but I am a beginner, so here is what I am curious about. Are the weights I am lifting good? Average? What should I aim for? ...

I usually run 4-5 miles in the morning fasted (30-45 min) 5x a week. Would I lose any muscle during that period of the fasted state? I always make sure I eat 100-200 cals over my maintenance so I don’t lose muscle and I weight train 6x a week and get adequate protein intake. I’m just curious during...

Skiing is definitely a leg workout, back too for stabilization (lats are sore). But I'm wondering if I should be hitting the gym for a few sets of bench / flies, bc my chest doesn't seem sore at all. Do you guys think skiing is enough of a workout to maintain chest? Ik pectoralis is involved in a...

I am so feed up of feeling so sore after workouts

I always wonder if to buy.

Those are the 2 main leg movements of my leg day. I do 4 sets of 15-20 for each. I wanna train them very hard and very close to failure. Around rep 13 it starts getting really hard and I even shout a little around the last 4 reps (sorry to my fellow gym colleagues, but I really suffer lol). ...

I am 30M weighing 115 lbs. I am trying to gain weight and muscles, having failed prior times, and was looking for an at-home workout routine that I can try. For background, the last two times I tried, once I ended up getting injured and couldn't move my arm for a month and then another time, I...

Recently have taken a two year break from basically activity due to an injury and a ton of other excuses. Started back around Halloween —- Been really working on the lower half this time around and in the previous has usually been my weakest lift Used to be Squat 405 Bench 365 Deadlift 530...

So I’m thinking about going back to heavy barbell rows for a while, after previously focusing on chest supported rows and seated cable rows. I do them from the floor, deadlifting the bar then lowering to the start position. I do them with a slightly wider than deadlift grip, Yates-style with a more...

In the best of ways. I can leg curl 200 lbs for reps but 20 total reps in 3 sets of SBLCs absolutely trashed the back of my legs and left my magnificent glutes fried. If anyone wants a secondary posterior exercise to do and hasn’t tried these yet, give them a go.

A vertical pull, a horizontal pull and a lighter upper back exercise, what would they be? Mine would be: Vertical=Straight arm pulldown Horizontal=Chest supported row machine Upper back=Band pull aparts

Title. I’ve started playing around with rear foot elevated split squats and single leg presses myself but as always, I’m interested in seeing everyone else’s opinion on the subject.

Hey all, Finally going to get into a relatively structured yoga/stretching routine. Starting to feel some odd twinges in my lower back that I'm not a fan of, and stretching always makes them ease up a bit so I figured I'd continue with that. Anyone got some good stretching routines that they...

Hello, new to these forums so I’m not sure where to post this; I thought this place would be OK. My question is, what can I do to strengthen my hands/fingers? When doing exercises such as the lat pulldown, deadlifts, shrugs (mainly pull exercises), my fingers/hands are why I have to stop. A few...

Disclaimer, I just wanted to comment on my findings if you don’t care just ignore this post. So recently I’ve switched from the touch and go bench to the paused bench. I decided to go extra heavy today for a top set so I did touch and go instead of paused like usual. And my word, the...

Given half the world are in and out of lockdowns and gyms are constantly opening and closing, does anyone create their own dumbbells and excersize equipment. I was looking online and apart from a lot of places (U.K.) being out of stock of weights, they’re mega expensive at the minute Curious...

so the program I'm following doesn't include direct trap work, I want to build them but is it necessary to include them or are they already hit fairly hard on other lifts?

Do they both train hamstrings as well as the quads?

So when i started doing chest supported barbell rows at around 20kg, I felt it massively in my back after I finished the set. But now I'm doing 45kg and i don't feel it at all in my back. I just feel my arms but my form is exactly the same. Is this a sign that im increasing the weight too rapidly?