Most hated exercises (personal trainer induced)

wimbels

I've been working with a personal trainer for an hour long 2x a week since the beginning of January in addition to my daily workouts. Prior to this, I'd been working out on my own steadily doing runs, fitness boxing, hour long stints at the gym with weights/various machines. Lost about 22 pds on my own & wanted to take it up a notch.

My trainer (whom I love) has relentlessly kicked my butt, which is just what I needed. While I've grown so much since I started working with him in terms of endurance and increasing my strength training with heavier and heavier weights, I can NOT seem to conquer this one thing he has me do regularly, and I absolutely despise it: using a weighted jump rope. I SUCK. I can't go fast at all, it completely wears me out within 5 turns as I struggle to bring the thing over my head, I trip over it, I HATE IT. Anything else he throws at me, I can do it or at least put up with it. But the weighted jump rope?? All day leading up to a training session, I'm saying in my head "mother!#$!#$! he's going to pull that GD rope any minute now...."

*Oh and when I say 'weighted jump rope', I'm not talking about those cute ones with slightly heavier handles that you can buy at Target for $9.99. I'm talking about the thick rubber ones that look like this:
http://www.fogdog.com/graphics/product_images/p735340reg.jpg


Anyone else have any specific exercise that is still beating them even after repeated efforts??

leadoff

LUNGES in any form or fashion......especially the Mary Katherine.

ninerbuff

Jump pullups. Stand underneath a pullup bar, jump up and in a continuous motion do a pull up as high as you can, then let go, hit the floor and repeat 9-11 more times.



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mrosem87

all forms of push-ups (diamond, military, one arm, etc.) ugh! =( I can do modified versions (knees on the floor) but I can't wait until I don't need to resort to that.

MarincicS

I like to refer to my PT as DSH, Demon Spawn from Hell, but you know, in a good way . . .

She has me do something she calls a caterpillar. I stand in front of the matt, bend over and put my hands on the floor, walk my hands away from my feet until i'm in the plank position, hold the position for a beat, then walk my hands back to my feet and stand up. Repeat for 12-15 reps, 3 times. Ugh!! My legs will kill me for days. Last time, the day after the session i had a 15 hour flight. Never again! My legs were stiff and crampy for 3 days after!

dlw13

Burpees. I hate them. I do them, but I hate them.

kaitimae

Mountain Climbers.

My old trainer made me do them all the time. I told my new trainer I would do ANY exercise he asked me to do, except mountain climbers. He agreed to never make me do them. HOORAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

taryn_09

i hate squat jump backs just as much as my clients i train do that & planks to extended sometimes still get me as well.

i run sprints and can do quick things but those and sometimes mountain climbers still get me!

its a hate love relationship.

tataliciousd89

Burpees. I hate them. I do them, but I hate them.

This!!! I used to hate squats, but now love em. Used to hate lunges, but now love/hate them. Used to hate running, but now tolerate it. I HATE burpees and that wont ever change!!! Until it does, lol.

Lift_hard_eat_big

My clients hate it when I have them do a burpee to a pullup Bwahahaha!

eljulia

i hate anything involving balancing on a Bozu! (i'm lame!)

ninerbuff

Mountain Climbers.

My old trainer made me do them all the time. I told my new trainer I would do ANY exercise he asked me to do, except mountain climbers. He agreed to never make me do them. HOORAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I would have had you doing Reverse jacks with double jump tucks then. You would be begging for mountain climbers instead!!!



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JadeRabbit08

Any exercise thats uncomfortable when you have boobs. Jumping jacks, jump rope, jump and whatever other combined movement the instructor has decided. I loathe all of them and it makes me miserable. I hear some people wear like two sports bras so maybe that would work. Nothing makes me feel more like I am making a complete scene than uncontrolled boobs.

Last time a instructor tried to get me to do them I absolutely refused (and gave my reasons), he was really insistent. Why would you want to ambarrass a client? Surely there are other exercise options that will still have me meet a fitness goal.
Exercises I like -squats and lunges and pretty well anything else.

My absolute favorite that I couldn't wait to do 4 sets of 20? These -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ng0XBh5KcQo

I loved the feeling of exertion and trying to punch as hard as I could while tensing the abs on the up crunch

babygurl48

Burpees. I hate them. I do them, but I hate them.

This, this and this!!!!:noway:

LadyConundra

Mountain Climbers and Burpees are all exercises straight from Hell. I do them again and again and again and again. Oh and the leg extension machine. My trainer loves to have me do that machine cause he knows it is the only thing that burns my legs out. My legs rarely get sore nothing matter what He or I try to do to them. He refers to my legs as 'freak legs'.

revadiana

I don't know what this hell exercise is called. But between this and wall walks, I prefer wall walks.. and I hate wall walks.

It starts like a wall walk, where your hands are on the floor and you walk your feet up a wall. But instead of being vertical, you're more at a 45 degree angle and then you kind of run on the spot, against the wall, while kind of upside down.

kaitimae

Mountain Climbers.

My old trainer made me do them all the time. I told my new trainer I would do ANY exercise he asked me to do, except mountain climbers. He agreed to never make me do them. HOORAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I would have had you doing Reverse jacks with double jump tucks then. You would be begging for mountain climbers instead!!!



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Maybe... but I don't even know what that means! So maybe not.

Really, it wasn't the EXERCISE that I hated so much, it was that my shirt would always rise up and then my belly would show. So I was always having to tuck my shirt in and even then it usually got loose. Which is kind of embarrassing in a gym full of people.

I also think they are poorly named. I've climbed plenty of mountains, and they are NOTHING like climbing a mountain. Hahaha.

Scott613

8 count bodybuilders, It's burpees on steroids. When youre in plank position spread your legs, bring them together, do a push up then finish doing your burpee with a 360 spin. Fun it is not!

Edit: the 360 spin is done to make sure you jump high enough and aren't halfa$$ing it at the end.

JennyZD

I actually like burpees and mountain climbers. I REALLY dislike running, though. Yet I'm training for a half marathon. Go figure.

snookumss

Anything that works your back and shoulders I'd imagine would be a huge help! Its your strength and stamina concerning the upper body pulling it up... thats probably where your body is lacking!

mikehorn91

Burpees and Mountain Climbers certainly rank high on the list. But I think my least favorite is either a basic lunge, or planking. Lunges kill me in that I have no balance really anymore and my legs haven't gotten built to hold my weight well yet that way. Planking kills my core for like 3 days haha.

But they all feel good in the long run

Pebbles536

Bear crawls! Ugh! Nothing quite like having your a%% in the air with a sweat smiley for all to see. No Thanks!

JennyZD

Burpees and Mountain Climbers certainly rank high on the list. But I think my least favorite is either a basic lunge, or planking. Lunges kill me in that I have no balance really anymore and my legs haven't gotten built to hold my weight well yet that way. Planking kills my core for like 3 days haha.

But they all feel good in the long run

Haha I LOVE planking, one leg up or with one hand are my favorites

CareyGay

I have plenty of hated exercises. Mostly ones that I feel that I can't do.

Until this week, I wouldn't even try lunges or push ups. I've always had balance issues with lunges, plus I had 2 inches of bone cut out of my right femur so my knees aren't level, makes lunges hard for me. And push ups, I've never had the upper body strength to do them.


This week 'm doing Jullian Michael's 30 day shred, and I'm doing these. I've worked up to over 8 push-up, modified, at one time. But I feel so good when I've done them.I'm going to challenge myself to keep up with the push ups until I can do them unmodified.
I also have issues with jumping jacks. big boob = big pain with them. Hoping that'll improve as I lose weight though

lorenzoinlr

Is it really necessary or even beneficial to do an exercise you hate? I've always managed to find more than adequate routines I don't despise with the possible exception of abs. Although even with abs I'll bet before long I'll find something more tolerable than the routines i do.

If you hate part of your workout, other than the initial adjustment to them, aren't you at greater risk of avoidance? Is any single exercise worth that?

funkycamper

Lunges. So good for you but hard for me as I have one hip that is much weaker than the other due to an old injury so I'm always off-balance. But it's good for strengthening that damn hip.

But, really, my most hated is any kind of plyometrics like jump squats. Uggghhhhhhh, noooooooooooo! I call my trainer The Sadist.

HorrorChix89

I hate any exercise that puts strain on my knees. Lunges, squats, jumping...I avoid them completely. One reason I cancelled my contract with a trainer (money was an issue too). If I don't like doing an exercise, I won't do it.

MelsieK

Kettlebell swings. Been scared of them ever since I worked away from a PT session with nice big blisters from them. Sadly though I also look forward to them ;-)

leftoverprattf

Push-ups, squats, bear crawls, slow/boring zumba, running, and cycling.

I try to do other things for my exercise

IpuffyheartHeelsinthegym

right now and ONLY right now, since I can't do them since I recently broke and (am recovering) my right wrist and sprained my right foot push-ups and standing calf raises. Otherwise, I them! I miss them, but at least I can still do my lunges!

wimbels

Is it really necessary or even beneficial to do an exercise you hate? I've always managed to find more than adequate routines I don't despise with the possible exception of abs. Although even with abs I'll bet before long I'll find something more tolerable than the routines i do.

If you hate part of your workout, other than the initial adjustment to them, aren't you at greater risk of avoidance? Is any single exercise worth that?

Oh no, my trainer is merciless. If he knows I hate something, he pushes me to do it to prove to myself that I can, so there's zero way I can avoid it when I'm training with him. The thing is, I WANT to be good at this 10 pound jump rope thing, but I know I won't ever get there unless I keep pushing. I still hate it though.