7 Exercises I Swear I’ll NEVER Do Again!

Today, I am going to share with you the 7 exercises that I swear I’ll never do again…ever. In this video, I am going to take you through the exercises that I have crossed off my to-do list for one reason or another. Now, that’s not to say that you can’t or shouldn’t do them, but just why I won’t do

what’s up guys fifth cavalier afthenex. com so today i’m going to share with you seven exercises that i swear i will never do again i mean never i promise so much so that i’m actually not even going to demonstrate the exercises they are now there’s something very important we have to get out of the way here and that is these are not the worst exercises those actually put together in a video that i will link for you at the end of this one you’re going to want to check those out i’m talking about the exercises that i personally will never do again and the reasons might actually surprise you by the way do you have any exercises that bother you or you just won’t do make sure you leave them below and tell me why that being said though it’s time for me to start breaking down my list one by one and the first exercise up here is the decline bench press and notice i didn’t say the flat bench press or even an incline press because i like those two versions of the exercise but not this one and the first big reason why i don’t like the way i feel when i do the exercise because as soon as i assume that decline position the blood rushes to my head and i worry more about how i’m feeling or how good i’m not feeling instead of actually the exercise that i’m doing and on top of that we have a tendency to get our shoulders into more internal rotation as the weight approaches our chest which is not a good biomechanical reason for me to love the exercise but beyond that guys getting in and out of the exercise is pain in the ass and when i realized that i have other exercises like dips or a high a low crossover that hit the lower chest just as effectively i just want to pass on this version of the bench press in this version only all right so this next one is kind of personal i hate the lying hamstring curl machine it’s the reason why i’m filming this in front of a black wall because i don’t have one in this gym let me tell you a little story when i was at the new york mets and we were in cincinnati i had to work out in the visitors clubhouse and they had one of those old broken down lying hamstring curl machines and knowing what i know about the exercise and how it ruins your back i kind of did it anyway because i wanted to work my hamstrings well by the end of the night i actually had to have two players help me up off the bench to get out of the dugout i hate the lying hamstring curl and to elaborate the exercise mechanics that i have a problem with in the first place because not only is it an open chain way to train your hamstrings when we have better options but you’re just reinforcing over activation of the hip flexors think about it when you do the exercise you’re driving your thighs down into the pad getting those hip flexors engaged in order to help you to lift your heels up with that over activation comes oftentimes spasm of the low back because we realize those hip flexors attach to the lumbar spine again better exercises exist anyway we talked about the glute ham raise not only incorporating hamstring flexion but also glute activation at the same time and even the slick floor bridge curl as an exercise that we can do with just our own body weight there’s way better options out there and i’m going to continue to hold my garage against the lying hamstring curl now i don’t want to piss off any calisthenic athletes with this exercise choice but we’re talking about the muscle up it’s not necessarily the exercise being bad or that i don’t see the function of it i do but it’s the transition between the parts of the exercise where my problem is see if we talk about the pull-up and the dip there are two great exercises and definitely two that i will never stop doing but when we transition from one to the other well that’s when it becomes iffy because in order to do it you got to go through a hell of a lot of shoulder internal rotation and that’s my problem with the movement and for me with two torn labrums this exercise has never felt comfortable whether i do it slow and controlled or whether i do it out of control with momentum so while for some it may be a major part of their calisthenics game for me it just brings me nothing but pain so i’ll pass all right so mom always told me if you’re gonna say something not so nice about somebody start by saying something nice and i did already about the muscle up but here it maybe will piss off a couple calisthenic athletes but i’m not trying to it’s just that the bicep push-up doesn’t exist there is no push-up that actually works the biceps to any significant degree or at least more than it works the triceps when you extend the elbow you work the triceps period so i’m not doing push-ups to work my biceps if i want to work my biceps i’m going to do a curl every single time you won’t find me doing the bicep push-up ever again or ever or maybe only when i made that video alright so this next one i don’t do is actually because i have too much respect for the exercise and those that do it well and we’re talking about the snatch this is an olympic movement that needs to be given the attention that it deserves in order to do this mechanically correct you better put in a lot of time and reps in doing it i simply have not and most of all the reason is because my shoulders don’t allow for it and the mobility that i have in my shoulders because of my labrums don’t allow me to do the exercise properly that said this is an exercise that i have my athletes do because i have a high respect for the value it can provide if you do it properly and if your body is prepared to do it i’m going to respectfully pass however if your body is willing and able to do the exercise i can certainly get behind the value of it oh let me do that again okay that’s better see we’re talking about the lunge and my issue is with the forward lunge and no it’s not my issue for everyone else with the exercise necessarily but for me and my knees have always been a problem and i realize there are benefits to learning how to adapt your body to moving forward in that anterior sagittal plane matter of fact we talk about how necessary it is to perform a squat properly and to have the right mobility at your ankle to allow something like that knees over toes guy yes i see you and i respect what you’re doing you’ve done a good job of educating people as well as to the importance of the exercise however for me the thing i find to be the best is to just simply do a reverse lunge by stepping backwards the big issue for me that i overcome is not my knees being over my toes but it’s the way that my foot hits the ground you see i have incredibly flat feet but every time i step forward into a lunge the issue is how my foot lands i don’t have good control of the arch as it collapses as i go down to the ground which tends to drive my knee not just forward but in causing some strain and stress on my knee for me when i go backwards i’m already in contact with the ground i don’t have to step and go through that pronation the foot is already in position and by stepping back i take away any of the issues that i have and still can load the exercise the way i like to and so there’s a pain deep inside me that reminds me all the time why i don’t like this exercise we’re talking about the one arm dumbbell row i’ve actually stopped in this exercise a long time ago because two hernias were incurred by me on the same exercise why we realized the weakness and the susceptibility of the inguinal canal when we assume this position and then hold the heavy weight i’ve actually had four athletes had the same injury happened to them in the weight room doing this exac