exercises that do nothing

>>42125078
Forearm curls

>>42125078

Evidently sucking dick works because you didn't put that down. Is there something you want to share with the class?

>>42125088
Not op but
>autism

>>42125078
>shrugs
Upper traps. If they are the extent of your trap routine, YNGTMI. Add in some high rows and face pulls.

>kickbacks
It's only working the medial head of the tris, which is small. You have to also work the long head with skullcrushers or french press. Kickbacks are the same thing as tricep pulldowns, but it's harder to cheat kickbacks, so you get less results (tricep pulldowns respond well to a little body-english).

>>42125078
Lat pulldown

SLDL

>>42125376
>lat pulldown
>do nothing

pick one

>>42125078
Bitch my deadlift went up faster because of shrugs

I was doing some shrugs but never get trap DOMS. But I got them from my first 2x5 deadlifts.

>>42125388
That's an awesome exercise, actually. You just have to have good posture and hip flexibility.

This thread is really shit so far. There aren't exercises that do nothing.

>Chin Ups
>Hammer curls
>Romanian deadlift

>>42125078
front raises.

>>42125078
cock deadlifts

hand chop offs

>>42125362
>kickbacks
aren't those good for the core/lower back or something?

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Lifting for the white race

>>42125468
these work the shit out of your delts if you combine them with lateral raises and do 4x8s

shrugs do nothing, aight dyel

>>42125454
B&?

>kegels
>reverse kegels

push-ups

>>42125078
Squats

>>42125533
They are useless because the front delts gets worked by pretty much any pushing exercise

>>42125408
I actually get trap doms from doing stiff leg DL, maybe from holding the bar for so long. I feel doms on traps from static holds more than movement, I think.

>squats
>deadlifts

>>42125824
>trap doms
So what you're saying is SLDL helped you get a qt trap to dominate you?

>>42125078
Shrugs are fucking ace if performed correctly.

>>42125844
sure believe what you want.

>>42125087
Forearm curls seem to get a lot of hate here for some reason. I started doing them about 4 weeks ago and my arms became thicc as fuck and finally seeing veins pop out even at high bf%. I can stop poking them.

Besides the vain aspect of it,it actually helped my grip strength a lot! I used to fuck up my DL because it slipped from my hands at my max weight. I didn't get straps - just trained my forearms and went up 10kg before my grip failed again. I'm getting straps now but I'm just saying it's not useless at all.

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>>42125765
godawful bait

bench press

>>42125078
Only do squats if you want to be a faggot with a giant ass

>>42125078
do kickbacks with a cable and they work fine

>>42125087

My forearms got super vascular as soon as I started doing wrist curls.

>>42125811
as long as you're working delts period I dont see the problem. They're only useless if they're the only delt exercise you're doing

>>42125078
>shrugs do nothing
troll or candyass. true for kickbacks tho familia

Deadlifts don't dp shit for aesthetics

jelqing

anything women do besides cardio

>>42125078
>shrugs

Rack pull and just power/cheat shrug while you at it. Saves time.

>>42126162
>jelqing
false

>>42125408
I get mind blowing trap doms from shrugs, how heavy do you go?

>>42126193
You just gotta go real heavy. Cheat shrug if you have to (leg drive)
It works. You will get the desired trap doms

>>42125901
>grip strength
this desu, wrist curls are really good if you wanna increase your grip strength

>>42126185
if u mean it can fuck up the benis agreed

>>42125922
Where do you think you are?

>>42125468
this desu, everyone has way larger front delts than any of the other heads, isolating them is almost pointless, and this exercise is not a even a good isolation movement

>>42125362
Kickbacks have one benefit over other tricep movements
They put no pressure on your elbow joint, so you can get more blood circulation while having a fucked up elbow.

>>42126166
Power cleans seemed to give me trap growth too, it's almost like olympians know what they're doing

>>42126185
>mahnigga.ogg
Jelqified Masterrace reportan
EQ is through the roof and da benis is fuckin' juicy

>>42125087
Andrei Aramnau does them religiously

>>42125078
exercises are all shit and do nothing play sports instead nerds

Been lifting for 4 years now and I've tried every lift I know of at least once

They all have had their moments where I've wanted to use them for some reason or another. So its hard to pick any bad ones honestly.

Maybe the leg press was the worst one

>>42126726
I am. I'm a professional gamer.

>>42125399
Damn, you must have horrible deadlift form.

>>42125785
Truth

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>>42125399
>shrugs
>improving deadlift

>>42126883
what are traps

>>42125078
Any lower body work besides hill sprints.

>>42125078
kegels

>>42125078
>"chest" flies

>>42125408

You have to pinch and hold the shrug for 1 second per rep. Too often I see retards just shrugging away at breakneck pace and getting no gains.

>>42127079
Explain yourself.

>>42127119
If deadlifts worked for him though, then couldn't he just do the deadlifts instead? Why waste time on an isolation workout when the compound exercise hits it and then some? Maybe if aesthetics were his goal, but I shrug once a week just cause and I've had plenty of women kiss my chest, grab my hips, feel my arms, etc as we fuck -- my point being, a lack of traps won't stop you from being aesthetic to girls.

>>42125512
What the fuck is this picture saying

>>42127124
The idea is that they increase the stretch on your chest compared to other bench work. This simply is not true. The insertion for your chest muscles ends at your upper arm. The extra stretch you are feeling isn't your chest it is your coracobrachialis in your arm. So really it's not that flies do nothing, its that "chest fly" is a complete misnomer.

>>42127202
People figure this out quickly after doing them and realize the pecs don't feel super worked... Or am i giving normies too much credit

>>42125454
hammer curls is not a bicep exercise, but a brachioradialis exercise

no wonder you don't make a lot of biceps gains with that, you fag

>>42127012
b8?

>>42127151
this

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Overhead deadlifts and tricep squats

>>42125078
stretching

>>42125512
my lifts have all gone up by 20 lbs this year because of pride in my european heritage and limiting my exposure to jewish tricks, you can fuck right off.

>>42125078
Calf raises

wow, not one BRAAAP comment, good job /fit/

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>>42126756
Leg press is kinda whack. Squat press, front, & high bar squats are the best quad exercises hands down. Squat press is great after your core is too fried to continue squatting

>>42129252
We're all on nobrap

>overhead press
>lateral raises

shoulders are 90%+ genetics and gear. working them out natty is useless

>>42129375
300% false

>>42125362
>It's only working the medial head of the tris, which is small. You have to also work the long head with skullcrushers or french press.

While you're correct, your whole tricep is being worked with every tricep exercise. Just like how you can't only target your upper chest. It's physically impossible to get only one head/portion of the muscle to fire.

>>42126446
another benefit is they don't make your shoulder injury feel like trash like overhead extensions do.

>>42129375
lol.
the trick is to get your ohp past 1 pl8 and use dumbells more than 15lbs for side raises

>>42129375
>>42129446
oh yeah, and obviously your bodyfat has to be in the fluffy range of 15-20%.
obviously no natties will have good delts when they're 10 percent or less

>>42126883
They assist with the top of the lock out. https://youtu.be/-0t_hCzUgvM

>ctrl+f calf
>only one hit >>42129239
I'm disappointed. It's the only acceptable answer.

Six reps of any exercise do nothing at all.

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>>42129812
true

>>42129827
This graph is fucking hilarious. Good meme.

>>42125468
Actually this

>>42129827
So 9 is the magic number huh?

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>>42129892
It's even more hilarious the fact that it's not a meme. It has been published in double-blind placebo-controlled study Journal of Strength and Broconditioning in 2016, after a first study published in the Journal of Broscience in 2013.
>>42129933
Actually, go for 8 reps and try to hit 9 or 10, then raise weight.
4x8 = final destination

Whatever the fuck that 40-something mom is doing with the 30 lb ez bar.

Push Ups since it's stuck to your bodyweight if you plan to get anything out of it you might want to add weight to ur backpack

>>42126146
So so wrong

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>Read thread
>literally every lift does nothing
>why bother?

Nobody said calf raises? My calves have looked the same for like a year it's depressing tbqh

>>42130102
Calves are probably the most gene based muscle imo, my calf's are fucking huge and i never work them directly

>>42130023

Probably my favorite /fit/ image

T U R K I S H GETUPS

>>42130102
>>42129810
>>42129239
>>42130132

four hits now. finally.
calves are 90% genetic 10% endurance training (cycling, climbing, track running)
it always amazes me that so many ppl do calves for years and yet they don't realize this simple fact

>>42125901
How often do you do them per week?

>>42125362
>YNGTMI
What the fuck

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>>42125078
>sit-ups
>calf raises
>machine leg extension
>behind-back lat pulldown
>leg press machine

>>42125468
This

>>42125078
>traplet
>triceplet

>>42125087
>forearmlet

>>42125376
>latlet

>>42125388
>hamslet

>>42125454
>latlet
>biceplet
>quadlet
>glutelet
>hamslet
>erectorlet

>>42129239
>calflet

Do you guys even fucking lift? Drop the stupid elitism and actually try getting strong and/or aesthetic instead of talking shit

>>42125468
The only right answer, nobody in the world has the opposite of the very common shoulder imbalance to the point of needing to isolate the anterior deltoid

>>42127119
You're an idiot. Watch AlphaDestiny, he knows how to really shrug for good trap development.

>>42125506
Yes, they're a completely different exercise. He's referring to a less known exercise, db kickbacks for the triceps. Nobody but 50 yo housewives do them.

>>42130245
If you really lifted, you'd know for a fact that calf exercises are a waste of time.

I have seen some experienced guys doing shrugs so IDK.

>>42130290
I had literal sticks for legs, now I have somwehat small calves - an improvement. My legs would look comical if I still had no calves after I got some quads. You think calf exercises don't work but it's not my fault you train them once a week with heavy loads and few reps, thinking all muscles in the body respond the same way.

>>42130466
nonononono.
Calf exercises are a total meme and a total waste of time even if you do them 3+ times a week.
I'm blessed with genetics and I'm no calflet. Yet I see people wasting hours doing that exercise for YEARS and yet they don't realize that the only way to train them a little is >>42130157
>endurance training (cycling, climbing, track running)

>>42130506
You see, the type of lifting for calves I have in mind mimicks endurance training somewhat - with lower loads and a lot higher reps - and it did work to get some calves growing for me.
Good for you if you had good lower body genetics to start with, because I didn't and I'm trying to do what I can in order to not look like half god, half starved sick goblin (upper/lower).

Only way to get good calves is extended hiking with backpack or comparable endurance exercises. They just regenerate way too quickly to get any real effect from regular exercises.

>>42128205
isnt a pushup basically a tricep squat

>>42125901
What weight do you do them at? rep range ect?

>>42130178
You're Never Going To Make It

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>>42125078
shrugs have worked fantastically for me, most people do them incorrectly and train the traps as if they operate under some sort of completely different process than the rest of your muscles.

>>42132615
love how as you've journeyed through /fit/ you've worn less and less clothes

>>42125078
Marathon

>>42132615
gymcel/10

>>42131685
40 lb straight bar reverse curls 4x10 supersetted with 4x10 of dumbbell wrist curls. Really squeeze at the top and watch the form. I do it after everything else on backday.

A bit of broscience that may be true is to keep the dumbbell wrist curl weight below 35 or your ligaments and joints start getting fucky.

>>42132615
progress time from 2-4?

>>42125765
Honestly yeah, I just superset them so I can keep my HR up. Theyre kinda poitnless and I end up stopping for my shoulder before anything else. Also way too easy to cheat on form.

Tangential question. What are good exercises for abs and the torso that don't fuck up your back?

>>42126807
Keep worrying about your form while struggling with three plate fruit

>>42130069
I do gf weighted pushups.

>>42137518
>I do waifu2D weighted pushups
ftfy

>>42135798
i dont know any ab exercises that fuck up your back. Sit ups might hurt your tailbone but you can just do them on a non-hard surface like towels

hanging legs raises work for me

>>42130605
I do 3 to 4 for sets of 20 slow and controlled reps 3x a week. Still a calflet.

>>42137527
>the everyone-on-/fit/-is-a-virgin-autist meme

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>>42125078
OHP

>>42137695
I bet you can't even lmao1pl8 for 1RM you fag.

>>42137741
how much is that in lbs?

>>42137741
actually I can lmao1.5pl8 for 5 reps. literally every other shoulder excercise is better. OHP is just a strenght tester like bench

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>>42126162
>>42126185
Jelq or be Jelqued

>>42125472
>not trying to make your cock as swole as the rest of your body

never gonna make it

>>42125078
does it use a muscle? if yes then it does something

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>>42127151
>>42127853
there's a cuckservative group called the Oath Keepers who have been trying to distance themselves from the alt right recently.
they are basically pic related.

having "personality"

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>>42125078
>do nothing
All exercises do something my friendo, I know you mean those that really seem not to improve anything but in that case I believe you're referring those that shown little progress on you.
All I can say is that shrugs are part of my routine and I started to note trap progress not until after 3 months of hard work. They're worth it.
Kickbacks......mmm...I do leg kickbacks only.

>>42137754

Are you saying that benching won't put on size? Where did I get all these muscles in my shoulders?

>>42130095
why bother getting advice from this board? no clue m8

>>42127770
>>42127202
Idk about you guys but my pecs feel more destroyed doing volume flies than heavy bench

>>42139944
This. The pump and feel I get from doing flyes after bench is amazing.

>>42127151
If you're racist white and American that somehow makes you European.

>>42130132
Need to do at least a 1 sec full stop at he bottom. One leg at a time helps too

Dem side bendz though

curling and bench press
fucking lmao

>>42137753
You just put the biggest plate in the gym on both sides of the barbell lbs and kg are irrelevant.

>>42130188
No argument here. Nice dubs too.

>>42125376
Least educated comment on 4chan ever

>>42132615
Too bad you can't fix that face or hair

People with no gains
I'll start
>op

>>42125078
Deadlifts

>>42125078

> routinely perform exercise that employs particular muscle group(s)
> nothing happens

what?

>>42137573
That's not gonna do shit
Fat people have huge calves and that's not always due to genetics
Try 4-5 sets of 50 3-4 times a week, 25 slow and controlled and 25 quick reps

>>42126707
this, even if no gains may come, my erections have never been harder and every erection is high quality af.