Your Favorite Weightlifting Exercise/Least Favorite
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Deadlifts are probably tops for me. To really look strong you've got to develop your back and deadlifts are great for that.0
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Favorite and yielded best overall results...definitely deads. Haven't used a straight bar in several years though, got sick of having bleeding shins all the time. Switched to a hex bar...very nice, easier on the bicep tendons too.
Couple other exercises I've modified and had great results:
Modified pulldown with D rings and a short Y chain connecting them.
Lean forward so when your arms are fully extended overhead you feel a good stretch in your lats. As you pulldown pull the D rings apart and draw your elbows back as far as possible, squeeze shoulder blades together, and hold for a split second. Slowly let the cable back up to full stretch of the lats. Supersetting this exercise with close grip bench presses is a favorite, whole upper body is pumped after a few sets.
Bastardized low cable upright row with D rings and a short Y chain connecting them.
Pull the D rings up and apart as you extend your elbows to the side. Don't have to go too high, not like a regular upright row, so no risk of shoulder impingement. At failure you can get a few extra cheat reps by letting your traps assist to shrug the weight up. Shoulder won't let me do regular wide grip upright rows but I can do these relatively pain free and they really hit the side delts.0 -
Favorites: Squats, deadlifts and lunges
Least Favorite: dumbbell presses, wide grip lat pulldowns0 -
Favorite: Deadlift
Least Favorite: Back Squats0 -
I'm not sure as far as noticeable improvement, but I love doing deadlifts and backsquats. They make me feel so strong.
I haaate overhead anything. Snatches the most, but overhead squats are a close second.0 -
Fav....ohp
Least...lat pulldowns0 -
Favorites: Deadlifts, bent over rows, and squats
Least: hack squats and standing overhead barbell press.0 -
I love bent over rows myself. You get almost a full body workout with that one, works your upper body and your core as you try to maintain balance.0
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Any type of bicep curls !0
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Love rows and squats.
Don't like doing arm exercises anymore (even though they are my best bodypart).
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Been in fitness for 30 years and have studied kinesiology and nutrition0 -
favorite - deadlift
least favorite - anything abs (I never do them)0 -
Favourite - hip thrusters
Least favourite - any single leg exercise like Bulgarian split squats, lunges, skater squats and single leg deadlifts
Love to hate - pull-ups0 -
favorite: squats *pats booty proudly*
least favorite: upright rows. I feel like I'm doing a variation of the funky chicken dance...0 -
Add me to the love squats and deadlifts group. Even if I hate them in the moment, I look forward to them and love the improvements they make in my body.
Least favorite that I do is bench. Feel so seriously weak in it compared to anything lower body0 -
Favorite: Deadlifts
Least Favorite: Lunges
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Favorite: squats; I love all of them, regular squats with the bar, sumo squats, Bulgarian split squats. Lunges are also great.
Least favorite: deadlifts. They work great, but are so painful and difficult to do. I do better with a split grip, but it's still quite a challenge.0 -
I'm not gonna lie: the iso-row machine is my current fave thing (b/c I can sit on my butt for a few minutes, and my form was terrible with rows with dumbbells).
Least fave is bench, b/c I'm not very good at it. Both of these answers make me seem lazy, I know.0 -
squats or deadlift are my favorite........ squats or deadlift are my least also, lol.... i know they do the most good, but i also know they hurt the most, lol
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Favorite - Squats
Least - Bench0 -
Favorite: Deadlifts
Least Favorite: Lunges
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