Im sorry...I must have pasted the wrong link to you
The link I posted was to an article I wrote a few years ago, it details why I think some exercises are outdated, and dont make much sense, while there are plenty of other options for those with enough brains to think for themselves
My bad...
Would that be the "Butchering Sacred Cows" article for FLEX, the "Squats Suck; Benches Blow" article for IronMan, or the one (the name of which eludes me) you did for MuscleMag, all around the mid/late 2002 or early 2003 timeframe?
And, if I'm not mistaken, right next to your "Butchering Sacred Cows" article, in which you criticize squats (didn't you blow a disc from heavy squatting), there's an article by Melvin Anthony, singing the praises of squats and what they did for HIS legs.
The point you made, and an excellent one at that, is that doing certain exercises just because it's what the old-timers did is basically a bad strategy.
Even they didn't follow that mantra as if it were gospel. Arnold claimed that, when he started training with Vince Gironda, everybody was doing preacher curls, because that was the exercise that Larry Scott used to blow up his arms, en route to his two Olympia wins.
Arnold noted that, while preacher curls did wonders for Scott, they did far less for his arm development.
