Forum: Exercises

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!

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...

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...

.. 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 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...

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'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...

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...

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...

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...

Tuesday curiosity: Do you prefer to pause or not between the concentric and the eccentric? If so, on what exercises?

Deadlift - 461 kg (1016 lbs) - the most someone ever deadlifted raw Is it me or it seems like he could add more weight? - it takes one second for the setup, he just puts his feet there and starts pulling - the speed on the positive is quite fast - the lockout seems easy - the negative is...

I’m doing full bodies and will workout from home once my power rack arrives. I will do 2 chest exercises and have the option of only 3: Incline Flat bench dips I don’t progress well once a week so doing all 3 is not an option. What would be more beneficial:

I use a Texas Deadlift Bar and a hook grip for sumo deadlifts. I put two fingers on the smooth and the rest on the knurl. My right thumb tip touches the knurl, which is very aggressive, and creates a cut: This does not happen at all to my left thumb. The cutting has happened the last three...

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 😔

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?

Hello everyone I usually do in my workout 3 sets of 8/12 reps. The reps I do are not always the same set to set because what I do is trying to stay at 1 or 2 reps of failure each time, but doing 8 reps at least and 12 max. Sometimes the last rep is failure when I dunnot calculate well. The...