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Exercises you wish you could do but can't

SkinnyFatBGone
SkinnyFatBGone Posts: 59 Member
edited November 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
I have knock knees so I can't do squats or lunges properly, unfortunately. I really wish I could. Attempting to do these exercises always leaves me injured and sidelined for at least a week. Also, I look like an idiot when I run, which is another issue.

Are there any exercises that you are physically incapable of doing?
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  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 35,316 Member
    With a torn meniscus, and a desire to put off surgery as long as possible, I don't run.
  • Misskcm
    Misskcm Posts: 143 Member
    I'm not SUPPOSED to run because at only 21 I have weak hip joints. But I do anyways because I love it.
    I can't do a real push-up or pull-up, but am working towards it. If I could do one pull-up in a year I'd be ecstatic.
  • canadianlbs
    canadianlbs Posts: 5,199 Member
    can't run. not that it's totally blighted my life, but still. especially after my most successful attempt which convinced me i actually could have done it if i had been able to keep doing it.

    but yeah; no. every time i try, no matter how cautious i am or how well i think i'm managing this time around, i end up crippled for everything else too, for at least a couple of weeks until the stuff that it hurts gets calmed down. i mind not even having the option, i think.
  • Valrotha
    Valrotha Posts: 294 Member
    Dragon flag. Gonna be a while before I can do that.
  • WanderingRivers
    WanderingRivers Posts: 612 Member
    Belly dancing. Bollixed ACL dashed that real quick.
    Acroyoga. Again, stupid ACL made that go adios real fast
  • livingleanlivingclean
    livingleanlivingclean Posts: 11,751 Member
    Ballet....not because I physically can't, but committing to regular classes is difficult with my schedule and the only place I can find that does casual classes is really out of my way (excuses basically!)

  • Mezzie1024
    Mezzie1024 Posts: 380 Member
    I'm currently too weak for pullups, pushups, and handstands. Working on it!
  • SLLeask
    SLLeask Posts: 489 Member
    Yoga, it makes me giggle!!
  • goldthistime
    goldthistime Posts: 3,213 Member
    Anything that requires flexibility. Ballet comes to mind. The instructors always have modifications for me, but yoga is no fun either. Nothing to do with flexibility, but I can't do pull ups either.
  • GrumpyHeadmistress
    GrumpyHeadmistress Posts: 666 Member
    Leg lifts. My legs are just dead weight.
  • cbeutler
    cbeutler Posts: 667 Member
    Pull ups, pistols, dips, and push ups they are my holy grail.
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  • SundropEclipse
    SundropEclipse Posts: 84 Member
    Aerobics. I love moving, but my balance is horrible. I've hurt myself a couple of times attempting aerobics so I had to give it up.
  • michael1976_ca
    michael1976_ca Posts: 3,488 Member
    there to many to name. I can't run I look to funny trying. I can do a few push ups before for I need to switch it up to my knees. lunges I can do a little bit then I seem to screw that up. i'm just not coordinated and breathing while exercising I find that hard to
  • Mouse_Potato
    Mouse_Potato Posts: 1,514 Member
    I have issues with my feet, so I can't do lunges or burpees or anything that involes bending my toes toward the top of my foot. Causes terrible pain. Very limiting. :(
  • clayelliott847
    clayelliott847 Posts: 125 Member
    Pull Ups..But I am using the assist machine at the gym, Better every week.
  • canadianlbs
    canadianlbs Posts: 5,199 Member
    SLLeask wrote: »
    Yoga, it makes me giggle!!

    better than what it makes me, which is angry. :tongue:
  • NorthCascades
    NorthCascades Posts: 10,968 Member
    Rock climbing. My partner stopped a couple years ago and I don't have anyone to belay me.
  • deputy_randolph
    deputy_randolph Posts: 940 Member
    Single arm chin up...I can do 12 with both arms; using 1 arm is way cooler.
  • Momepro
    Momepro Posts: 1,509 Member
    All of them? I'm not only fat, I'm also REALLY uncoordinated.
  • VeronicaA76
    VeronicaA76 Posts: 1,116 Member
    90° planch push-ups. I'm working on it though. Doing 10 of them in a row is one of my goals.
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