Don’t Waste Your Time in the Gym on These 10 Exercises
Do you want to maximise strength gains and muscle growth in the gym, but avoid injuries? Then don’t do these exercises! (And some to do instead)
Our bodies are made up of dozens of muscles, big and small. Therefore, we need to do various exercises that best target individual muscles or muscle groups.
Before the internet, gym advice was passed down from gym bro to gym bro.
And this is still often the case — even though the internet now gives us all access to scientific information about best practices for dieting and exercise science, a lot of bad training advice is still passed down.
Many of us perform exercises in the gym that are inferior to alternatives and even put us at risk of injury.
But if you’re making enough effort to regularly get to the gym, you want to keep safe and maximise your results by doing the best possible exercises, right?
Here are ten exercises that you shouldn’t bother doing in the gym and some alternatives that are a better use of your time.
Front Raises
The first exercise that you shouldn’t bother doing in the gym is front raises.