Your Favorite Excercises?

[dyaus]

Tell us your about your favorite excercises, why you like them, and how much weight you use, and how many reps you do.

[dyaus]

me:

dumbell rows: Works the upperback, shoulders, and biceps.
70-85lb dumbells, usually start at 70's and do 4-5 sets.

dumbell shrugs: I love working my traps
70-90lb dumbells, start around 70's, do 4-5 sets.

barbell shrugs: same as above
225lb, 6-8 reps, for 3 sets.

bent over barbell rows: Helps develop a strong upper back!
150lb, 8 reps, for 3 sets

[chunky]

back is my favorite day as well.

my favorite back excercise is bent over dumbell rows, 110lb, 3 sets x 10

I love military press as well. start with 135, finish at 195. I want to get up to 225 on military.

[dyaus]

back is my favorite day as well.

my favorite back excercise is bent over dumbell rows, 110lb, 3 sets x 10

I love military press as well. start with 135, finish at 195. I want to get up to 225 on military.

I absolutely love dumbell rows. They are probably my favorite excercise.

I like military press as well, though my max is 140-145lbs.

Do you do standing or seated, and with seated do you bring the bar infront, behind, or above your head?

[reaz]

I started doing the bent over bar bell rows. I like it. But I think my favourites are seated rows.

I do 110lbs x 8 reps. (3 sets)

[BC_Broad]

my favourite is walking lunges/squats with a twist while holding a medicine ball. its great for the obliques, quads and buttocks.

you lunge holding the medicine far infront of you (elbows almost straight), squat and twist your body (w/ the ball) towards the opposite leg which is bent.

[aspaan]

Decline Press

[chunky]

I absolutely love dumbell rows. They are probably my favorite excercise.

I like military press as well, though my max is 140-145lbs.

Do you do standing or seated, and with seated do you bring the bar infront, behind, or above your head?

seated military as it's more difficult to jerk the weights up. I do both in front and behind my head. and I suppose the weight always ends up above my head in the end. ;) I do the full range of motion, i bring it down till it touches my collar bone or traps, then push up. I also sit as upright as possible so as to keep my pecs from doing any work.

I also like forward shoulder raises.

[chunky]

my favourite is walking lunges/squats with a twist while holding a medicine ball. its great for the obliques, quads and buttocks.

you lunge holding the medicine far infront of you (elbows almost straight), squat and twist your body (w/ the ball) towards the opposite leg which is bent.

I like lunges too. usually at the end of my leg workout with a 135 lb barbell on my shoulders.

[Kiser Sose]

Seated row is my fav........65kg 3 sets and around 11reps

[dyaus]

seated military as it's more difficult to jerk the weights up. I do both in front and behind my head. and I suppose the weight always ends up above my head in the end. ;) I do the full range of motion, i bring it down till it touches my collar bone or traps, then push up. I also sit as upright as possible so as to keep my pecs from doing any work.

I also like forward shoulder raises.

I used to do behind the head presses but ive heard and read from more than one person that they are very dangerous for most people. Even when I do them myself, it feels uneasy and akward.

Id rather not go that route.

:dizzy:

[chunky]

I used to do behind the head presses but ive heard and read from more than one person that they are very dangerous for most people. Even when I do them myself, it feels uneasy and akward.

Id rather not go that route.

:dizzy:

yeah, it's supposedly really bad for your rotator. but I think that's only if you align your shoulders a certain way. I've not had any shoulder issues due to behind the head military press.

[FLAVA FLAVE]

i love doin bench press with dumbel's then incline dumbell's

flat i do 90lbs
incline i do 75's

[aamer]

my fav. exercise gots 2 b...bench pressing. classic exercise 4 building strength/mass. i usually warmup with 170 and max out at 250...uh lateral raises r kool 2

[adren@line]

deadlifts - start at 135lb, end at 340lb

[Sweet Miasma]

my favorite is the hip abductor for the butt...
i do 3 reps of 30 @ 30 lbs.

i like this one because i can really feel it burn when im doing this excersize...

http://www.fitnesscrossroad.com/images/equipment/lower_body_4645_lg.jpg

[ILuvPTA]

Favorite exercise?

...... Definitely this one:

http://img199.exs.cx/img199/3389/smiliejerkoff6ai.gif

Why do you like it?

Burns calories, feels good, builds my biceps !

How much weight you use?
It can't lift weights yet but i am trying.

How many reps do you do?
Only once a day mate !!! I ain't a bloody milk machine !!!!!!


(bit ironic really that this thread is "sticky", don't u think ????!!!)

(http://img101.exs.cx/img101/3863/lol8bj.gif
hahaaahaaaahhah ...... sorry, just playin' ........ couldn't resist !!!!)

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[ILuvPTA]

Ok on a serious note I like the Gym3000 machine, thats what I use.
(That Texas Ranger karate guy uses it so its good enuf for me !!!!!!)

[applesierra]

My favourite is tricep curls (or straigtens) seated. Not sure what its real name is but you sit straight on a flat bench, lift a single dumbell over your head and behind you and straighten, curl behind, straighten, etc. I can do a silly weight for my size (don't know why, its only this exercise) of 30kg single dumbell. For you Americans that's 66 lbs.

[budz]

My fav exercise would have to be close grip bench press. But i only get to do it when i go to the gym.

[ILuvPTA]

errrrrr ...... applesierra, no offence or nuthin' ............... but your sig looks a bit weird mate ------ your back looks a bit unrealistically too wide ??????? Or is that just a photo defect ?????

Oh I dunno' --------- maybe its just my eyez, hahahaahhhahh :lol:
Maybe its just coz ur flexing or sumfin ..............

[applesierra]

I used a mobile phone camera to take that picture and got someone else to take the shot (obviously). My back isn't that wide, but the wings and the V shape are real. The other picture is a more realistic capture.

LOL, I was quite impressed with the outcome though.

[-R-T-B-]

I love Deadlifts. I usually warm up with 225 for 20 reps, 275 for 15, 315 for 10, 405 for 8 and up to 495 for 5.

[IPunjabi.Blood]

Stop copying me, Ronny. ^ :p

Deadlifts: It's my heaviest lift, and it feels great before (when I squat down, grab the bar and stare at myself in the mirror), during, and after the lift. It makes my back feel like it was worked over by Thor's hammer, and hits damn near every muscle in my body. Plus there is nothing, and I mean nothing (well, possibly getting set on fire) that gets the sweat pouring out of my body like deadlifts.

- @235 for 18 reps
- @265 for 14 reps.
- @325 for 11 reps.
- @415 for 8 reps.
- @505 for 4 reps.

[adren@line]

I concur with the above posts.

Deadlifts are king.

[Tandoori []>imp]

does weightlifitnt stunt growth? or does is help with growth because of the growth hormone released?
im 16 and i started a few weeks ago. I do light training nothing more than 60-70 lbs
i do bench, deadlift, squats and calve raises for basketball
i still want to grow taller, shoud icontinue? chek my post "to be a baller you need to be taller."

[dyaus]

>imp']does weightlifitnt stunt growth? or does is help with growth because of the growth hormone released?
im 16 and i started a few weeks ago. I do light training nothing more than 60-70 lbs
i do bench, deadlift, squats and calve raises for basketball
i still want to grow taller, shoud icontinue? chek my post "to be a baller you need to be taller."

That is more of a myth.
If you over-exert yourself, and overtrain, you COULD stunt your growth.

The intensity that you are training at is nothing to be worried about in terms of stunting your growth.

[saffy]

....press ups.....lol... :p