Forum: Exercises

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

So, i recently started doing standard deadlifts again (elevated with pada because weights in this gym are short so i can't lift any weight without rounding my back without elevating the bar) Ive had a l5 s1 hernia since 12, bad genetics, never got injured or anything to get it. It got very...

Hello, I am a beginner M28, 200lb, 6'2 lanky and I've made a quick video of some basic bodyweight exercises (squat, pushup, plank) I want to see if I am doing correctly, so it'd help to have someone actually review me before I keep going with it. It is in my profile bio, it is my homepage. I...

My clavicles appear sharply that I need to work my upper chest a lot. I usually have 3 exercises for my upper chest but I'm not sure they're enough. Can you suggest the type of exercises, the way they're done, the volume and intensity so that my upper chest finally becomes visible? Thanks in...

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Hello everyone For training myself into pull ups I do this in my workout: 4 sets to failure of normal pull ups (last time reps: 8 7 4 4) 4 sets to failure of supinated pull ups (last time reps: 6 5 4 4) Then I move to lat machine and do 3 sets of each exercise (between 8 to 12 reps). Is it...

I am trying to keep a balanced push/pull ratio in my routine. I was thinking if dumbbell chest flys count as a push exercise? So if one day I do: Bench press Lateral raises and another day: OHP chest fly