Strength Stereotypical exercises in the fitness community

[go you pups]

Just for something a bit different

Had a conversation the other day where the old "aren't deadlifts bad for your back" comment popped up. So I thought, ok for shits and giggles why not brainstorm and take it a bit further and think of certain exercises that are either embraced by certain areas of the strength and fitness community or just have a stigma about them that you could just stereotype those exercises now.

I think the old school bodybuilder doing concentration curls is a classic old school stereotype.

What other examples can we think of that are primarily associated with a certain discipline?

 

[Mofra]

No warm up, straight into bicep curls - every new years' resolutioner who will give up by mid February

 

[ThePezDispenser]

Nah, poll is missing bicep curls in the squat rack!

 

[ThePezDispenser]

Is bench press really stereotypical male? All the bro’s only do bench press when they have a group of mates to spot them all but two reps.

 

[go you pups]

Is bench press really stereotypical male? All the bro’s only do bench press when they have a group of mates to spot them all but two reps.

Gym bro/rat is the same thing really

And yes it is


Curls in the squat rack is a big no no, but I don't see this kind of behaviour much these days, most gyms have a preacher bench or 2 for that

 

[k31th]

Has to be female gym rats doing hip thrusts as the most common (100% so far) for their demographic and way more common amongst obvious demographics when doing a direct percentage comparison, in my experience

 

[phantom13]

Gym bro/rat is the same thing really

And yes it is


Curls in the squat rack is a big no no, but I don't see this kind of behaviour much these days, most gyms have a preacher bench or 2 for that

I think a gym bro goes in groups a gym rat is a lone dude.

I considered myself a gym rat. Always by myself.

 

[go you pups]

I think a gym bro goes in groups a gym rat is a lone dude.

I considered myself a gym rat. Always by myself.

Wouldn't it be a gym wolf?

 

[phantom13]

Wouldn't it be a gym wolf?

I’ll take that for sure!

 

[Shell]

I think a gym bro goes in groups a gym rat is a lone dude.

I considered myself a gym rat. Always by myself.

I definitely prefer your type over... well this group of biatches basically screeching at each other while they had a conversation the other day.

Like I understand the gym's not a library- but its not some nightclub either where you yell over the music to one another. Ffs.

 

[raskolnikov]

We rarely do Kettlebell swings at my CrossFit box. For CrossFit IMO it would be toes to bars or double unders.

 

[phantom13]

We rarely do Kettlebell swings at my CrossFit box. For CrossFit IMO it would be toes to bars or double unders.

Kipping pull ups.

Crossfitters are the only people I know who do those.

 

[go you pups]

Kipping pull ups.

Crossfitters are the only people I know who do those.

Kipping was my 2nd choice, felt CrossFit has been a big driver in kettlebell use over the years though (though functional fitness types use them too)

 

[peternorth]

Callisthenics - human flag (with the air walk thing they do)

 

[k31th]

Callisthenics - human flag (with the air walk thing they do)

Planche is more common, I think, for calisthenics... both are extremely difficult... for something easier but still popular, L-sits or muscle-ups.

 

[EasternTiger]

Anything that works the legendary 'stabilizer muscles'

There's nothing like the feeling of a rotator cuff pump.

 

[peternorth]

Where does shoulder shrugs come in?

 

[EasternTiger]

 

[Kram]

OP is gotta be the old bicep curl.

I've always spent way too much time doing the military press for some reason..

 

[go you pups]

Anything that works the legendary 'stabilizer muscles'

There's nothing like the feeling of a rotator cuff pump.

Rotator cuff pumps are painful

Particularly when I've had some pump formula as my preworkout