Name your favorite UNDERRATED exercises

[joen270]

I just started working incline dumbbell curls into my routine. LOVE LOVE LOVE them.

What are some lifts that we should all work into our routines?

[kanis999]

Wide Grip upright rows
Rear delt rows
Walking BB lunges
Face Pulls
Decline BB Bench
Trap Bar Farmer's Carries

[Flisker]

Rear delts on this machine, don't see anyone doing it in our gym and it's my best exercise for rear delts.

[heinstein]

Pull ups are clearly underrated.

My evidence is every so called bodybuilder's poor excuse for lats.

[Awzban]

Face pulls
Pull-ups

[rossmcd87]

By regular gym goers? Deadlift.

By the rest of us.. Pull Ups.

[DizzyPhyziks]

Heavy calf work in general

[boo99]

face pulls, pull ups too

[lee__d]

Anything rear delt.

[MasalaMaker]

I love Face Pulls! Great for my shoulder health as well.
YTW's.

I agree that by regular gym goers that aren't that serious and more on the recreational side, the Deadlift does not get any love.

[Paddyirishlad]

Heavy Turkish get ups.

[oldballs]

Power laterals

[Epilerik]

Barbell split squats
Neutral grip chins
Tbar rows
Farmer's walks

Oh, and do your calf raises with a dip belt next time. You can use heavier weights than with dumbbells because you don't have to worry about your grip. I find this to be the best way to work the gastro without some kind of machine, be it a leg press or a smith machine.


Then there are some exercises I don't really feel like are great muscle builders but can prevent nagging injuries. These exercises I use super high reps on, like 4-6x20-25

Facepulls both ways (thumbs down/palms out works rotator cuffs/rear delts/teres/lats more and thumbs up/palms in focuses more on the entirety of the traps)
Hip thrusters
Soleus extensions (my gym has a lever for it, you can always use a band or hold a dumbbell with both feet at once)

[doughnut91]

Wide Grip upright rows
Rear delt rows
Walking BB lunges
Face Pulls
Decline BB Bench
Trap Bar Farmer's Carries

Fully agree with what's bolded

[pierrson]

snatch grip rack pulls, facepulls & meadow rows. my top 3

[Kcabo]

Deadlifts/squats @ commercial gyms.

Glute ham raises.

[orangegoblin]

A lot of folks seem to dislike triceps pushdowns, but I have had some good luck with them for mass building. I currently use a ropes attachment and do a variation where I move both elbows and shoulders (sort of like a standing skullcrusher). I still like my weighted dips, though.

[fourdegrees]

Pull ups (grip not important), and dips seem to get left out of many routines. I wouldn't call either underrated though.

Kettlebell/dumbbell swings would get my vote for being highly underrated. Call it heresy, around here anyway.

[AFMotoX311]

Ring dips
Tire flips (Especially heavy)
Cleans (Squat cleans if you call them that, just not power cleans)


Pull ups as well, but its been stated a ton.

[jgreystoke]

Goodmorning, touching the pins of the rack to hit parallel every rep.
Pendlay row, every rep from dead stop on the floor.
Trap bar deficit dead, standing on 2 x 9s or bumper plate.

Box squat.
High bar squat.
Bottom up squat from the pins.

Power clean.
Power snatch.
Push press.

Concentration curls.
One hand lat pulldowns.
Face pulls. Do more for my trashed shoulders than all the external rotations I did for years with Granny's dumbbells.

Charles Atlas neck work against the resistance of both hands.
Wall bridge for neck.
Hise shrug.
Trap bar shrug.
Trap bar upright row.

Grip machine.
Wrist curl & reverse wrist curl.
Lever bar.

Ring chins.
Dips.
Bench dips.

Glute ham bridge.
Hanging leg raise.
Ab pulldown.

Knife and fork curls.

Obviously you rotate through stuff like the assistance work, keeping days for a big movement like squat, push, pull etc at the heart of your program.

[Alyion]

Reverse close grip bench from pins.

Personally my number 1 pressing tricep exercise - never felt my tris at all when doing cgbp and dips, and find it helps my flat bench more as well.

[UgotAniceSNATCH]

reverse barbell lunges
snatch grip deadlifts
one arm farmer's walks
wood chops
shoulder press from a deadstop on the pins against the power rack bars

[simonwitney]

close grip bench press
heavy carries
heavy back extensions for high reps

any posterior exercise

[Kewbrah]

renegade rows

[Brocaz]

Standing barbell OHP

[PatchPatrol]

Dumbbell hyperextensions with the pad set very low. Great hamstring movement to stretch out the tissue and build thickness. The burn and pump in the hamstrings from this movement is far beyond anything I get from any of the machine leg curl variations. Works well with heavy weights and sets of 8-12 repetitions

[-Lucifer]

Foreskin retraction and extension.

[jdaddymma]

Dips, lunges, and close-grip bench for tris.

[PatchPatrol]

Surprised to see so many people listing lunges. Almost everyone at my gym does walking barbell lunges or dumbbell lunges - they're even more common to see than barbell squats

[BBohata]

Any decline press (didn't Dorian Yates like to do BB press at a slight decline?), deadlifts (the first people who told me about weightlifting didn't even mention them).