2884: These 5 Exercises Are Almost Never Done Right (And It's Hurting Your Progress)
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What five common exercise mistakes are introduced and why do they matter?
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Look, if you want to make progress, stop doing these five exercises. They're wasting your time. They're sending you backwards. And it's mostly about how you do them, you guys. The exercises themselves are okay. You just do them wrong. Everybody does them wrong.
Let's talk about it.
Let's piss some people off.
Yes.
So the things that I listed aren't necessarily bad.
Well, you could preface this with something that we've said many times on the show that – any exercise performed correctly and safely. For the right reason. Right, right. It's great.
Yeah.
The ones I'm listing here are almost never done. Misused exercises, yes.
Yes, and this came to me today working out in the gym. This morning I went to the gym working out. I'm doing real light. stuff this week because I was sick earlier. But I'm in there and I always, you know, I can see what people are doing. And, you know, my trainer brain is always on. And I see, you know, sure enough, a couple women, older women, I'd say middle-aged, doing jump boxes. Wow. And I never... I'm trying to think right now. Have I ever seen anybody do a jump box the right way? I have. Very rarely. Maybe once.
Actually, I get excited when I see it. I go, oh, this person knows what they're doing. Yes. Either they are a trainer or they've had a really good trainer.
It's a trainer gym is where I've seen it.
So jump boxes or jumping on a box, the purpose of this exercise is to improve your power, your explosive power. What you're doing is you're practicing and training your body to organize its muscles in a way to exert strength quickly. In other words, if you do a jump box the right way, it's not with fatigue because I'm not training stamina.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What five common exercise mistakes are introduced and why do they matter?
0:00–7:08
2
How should jump boxes be performed instead of using them for fatigue?
7:08–30:37
3
Why aren’t hip abduction machines effective for building glutes and what should you do instead?
30:37–45:42
4
When are circuits, renegade rows, and ultra‑high‑rep training useful — and when are they just cardio?
45:42–54:50
5
What guidance do the hosts give for safe movement during a high-risk pregnancy?
54:50–58:51
6
How many steps and what mobility advice should pregnant women with placenta previa follow?
58:51–1:05:23
7
How should you modify training and calories when consistency and energy keep failing?
1:05:23–1:18:01
8
When is reverse dieting and lower-volume training recommended before a cutting phase?
1:18:01–1:48:59
Speakers
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