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I thought I would post this as I'm studying anatomy in school right now and it just got me wondering if there are exercises that fellow trainers feel they just cannot do no matter how beneficial they are. Here are my top three in least to most pain and little results for the effort:
3) Flat bench press: When I first started training (16-18yrs old) that was my chest exercise. I didn't like the incline because i couldn't handle as much weight and I'll admit it was about showing off as much as it was training. I didn't do the decline because i didn't like my feet off the ground and how it seemed the bench was designed to crush my neck with any mistake,lol. Anyway it seemed like every set on the flat bench someone was sticking their fingers in my pec delt tie in, and it just didn't feel right. Now i never do it bodybuilding style but i still like it for a close grip tricep movement.
2) Skullcrushers- I always felt pain in my elbows every time I went over say 75lbs. or so. I tried to learn different techniques but it never mattered, always the same pain. Now I do the same style of movement, but standing and lowering an e-z bar behind my head. It just feels better I guess.
1) Stiff-legged deadlifts- Now I am a deadlifting machine. I love the exercise more than any other. Doesn't matter if its a regular, sumo, or rack dead. But every time I attempt a stiff-leg I get a overly pumped lower back and I feel it there for days afterwords. One day I stumbled onto a website that suggested to start doing good-mornings for the hams. But not the style I remember in Arnold's book with the locked legs and bent-over with the sand filled weights on his traps. But the bent knee version that almost has a squat like feel to it. My hams blew up after a couple of months, and I never looked back.
So I'm curious what exercises other people found just don't agree with their body type, injuries or not. I'm curious if the same culprits will come up or if its just different for each person.
3) Flat bench press: When I first started training (16-18yrs old) that was my chest exercise. I didn't like the incline because i couldn't handle as much weight and I'll admit it was about showing off as much as it was training. I didn't do the decline because i didn't like my feet off the ground and how it seemed the bench was designed to crush my neck with any mistake,lol. Anyway it seemed like every set on the flat bench someone was sticking their fingers in my pec delt tie in, and it just didn't feel right. Now i never do it bodybuilding style but i still like it for a close grip tricep movement.
2) Skullcrushers- I always felt pain in my elbows every time I went over say 75lbs. or so. I tried to learn different techniques but it never mattered, always the same pain. Now I do the same style of movement, but standing and lowering an e-z bar behind my head. It just feels better I guess.
1) Stiff-legged deadlifts- Now I am a deadlifting machine. I love the exercise more than any other. Doesn't matter if its a regular, sumo, or rack dead. But every time I attempt a stiff-leg I get a overly pumped lower back and I feel it there for days afterwords. One day I stumbled onto a website that suggested to start doing good-mornings for the hams. But not the style I remember in Arnold's book with the locked legs and bent-over with the sand filled weights on his traps. But the bent knee version that almost has a squat like feel to it. My hams blew up after a couple of months, and I never looked back.
So I'm curious what exercises other people found just don't agree with their body type, injuries or not. I'm curious if the same culprits will come up or if its just different for each person.
