Most hated excersise and piece of equipment in the gym

[Parker]

Even the flotsam should be able to spell exercise!

Cable cross over is almost useless. Why? Well, when you use heavy weights it becomes dangerous. It is as useless as using a rope for triceps pressdowns.

Go to 3:35, maybe this flotsam by the name Phil Heath needs to take your advice. Cable Cross overs are useless to him---for his pec development

[Vince B]

Let me tell you that is a dangerous piece of equipment to use when you go heavy. I doubt many of the champs use it for size. That isn't the way Ray Mentzer recommended you hold your arms. This is a very unstable exercise and quite dangerous to control when heavy weights are used.

[tbombz]

Let me tell you that is a dangerous piece of equipment to use when you go heavy. I doubt many of the champs use it for size. That isn't the way Ray Mentzer recommended you hold your arms. This is a very unstable exercise and quite dangerous to control when heavy weights are used.

  the cable crossover isnt a "mass builder". how heavy can you go? its impossible to use much more than yoru bodyweight, or else youd be pulling yourself up into the air, not pulling the weights up. how would it be dangerous? i think one would need to have some extremely horrible form to make it a dangerous exercise. the cable crossover is a good isolation exercise.

[Hulkotron]

If I only I had stopped using the rope years ago, think of how huge my triceps would be

[Nirvana]

any hammer strength machine

people swoon over them and say "it's just like real dumbbells!"

here's an idea, use real dumbbells

[dc8pack]

The "yes/no" machine (as I like to call it). Only females should ever be allowed to use in the first place.

[Coach is Back!]

Smith Machine - usless piece of trash.

[Sexual Mustard]

swiss balls and kettlebells. 

[benchmstr]

Smith Machine - usless piece of trash.

the only use i have for it is upright rows when my lower back really hurts, or i am trying to focus on the negative of the upright row.......nothing else..

bench

[Vince B]

  the cable crossover isnt a "mass builder". how heavy can you go? its impossible to use much more than yoru bodyweight, or else youd be pulling yourself up into the air, not pulling the weights up. how would it be dangerous? i think one would need to have some extremely horrible form to make it a dangerous exercise. the cable crossover is a good isolation exercise.

Who am I talking to here, a novice? I am telling you that once you get heavy you can't control the movement as it will want to go in other directions. That is when you can injure yourself.

[benchmstr]

Who am I talking to here, a novice? I am telling you that once you get heavy you can't control the movement as it will want to go in other directions. That is when you can injure yourself.

what if i WANT to injure myself so people will think i am hardcore?

bench

[chaos]

Who am I talking to here, a novice? I am telling you that once you get heavy you can't control the movement as it will want to go in other directions. That is when you can injure yourself.

Bullshit.

[Voice of Doom]

Smith Machine - usless piece of trash.

X2

[Vince B]

The Smith machine that is angled at about 10 degrees is an excellent machine as long as it runs on linear bearings and has a straight bar. The angle will feel good for bench press, inclines and even squats.

[SF1900]

Least favorite:

Squat rack


Bench press



Favorite exercise:

[Sherief Shalaby]

Cable crossover station... Hate hate hate it million little guys 140 lbs some not even hit pubertyas yet everybody wants t do cable crossovers max holding up the cable station doing cable crossovers.... And old fat guys Not realising that is an advanced isolation movement which means you need to first have pecs.... So when a serious trainer like myself wants to do pressdowns it's full of guys lining up to do cable crossovers

i dont agree with this.. i believe that any exercise helps to build the muscle to a certain extent.. i dont buy this "isolation" thing!!.. same as when some ppl say when you do high reps it helps to define you muscles!!..

[hangclean]

The "yes/no" machine (as I like to call it). Only females should ever be allowed to use in the first place.

I actually feel that the yes machine is the most underrated piece of gym equipment.  Great machine for hip/glute activvation.  Maybe not the best for bodybuilding, but for strength training in sports it is a great machine.

[jon cole]

-smith machine, i'm not on 6 gr of aas and 40 ui of gh and slin, so i had to work out to gain muscle, i"m not allowed to arrive at gym asleep and collapse on a smith for doing several uninspired set of partial bench and half squat.

[Aerian]

LOVE this calf machine.   LOVE it. 

That calf machine is TRASH!!.  every gym i belong to right now has that exact calf machine and its pure garbage. 

[Aerian]

Smith Machine - usless piece of trash.

100% agree.  Dont think i have used this once in the last 3-4 years.

[mesmorph78]

i dont agree with this.. i believe that any exercise helps to build the muscle to a certain extent.. i dont buy this "isolation" thing!!.. same as when some ppl say when you do high reps it helps to define you muscles!!..

you didn't read what I typed I don't hate it because it's not effective I hate it because it's misused by morons... 140lbs no chests that movement is an advanced isololation movement meaning you have to have big pecs to see the benefit of using it in my gym you have 20 guys queinh up tapping away on there black berrys waiting to do 10 sets each on it 

[Sherief Shalaby]

you didn't read what I typed I don't hate it because it's not effective I hate it because it's misused by morons... 140lbs no chests that movement is an advanced isololation movement meaning you have to have big pecs to see the benefit of using it in my gym you have 20 guys queinh up tapping away on there black berrys waiting to do 10 sets each on it 

thank you big man

 

[Per Se]

The thing I hate is when ppl use equipment that they dnt need to use...

barbell curls in the squat rack...just pick the damn barbell up off the floor, why stop other ppl from squatting.

just lately ive seen a lot of guys do sit ups and other ab variations on the bench press...NOT a bench in the free weight area, but they stop others from benching.  Selfish.

[mesmorph78]

Curls in the squat rack is the worst

[The Showstoppa]

haha, at all the hate on smith machines......and even hammer strength......almost all the equipment is fine to use as long as you use it properly and push yourself.  I've known quite a few guys who babble about "only free weights man....I'm hardcore!"  and they squat w/3 inches range of motion, bounce the bar off their chest on bench and do the sway back-hip thrust for bicep curls......LOL