What exercises/lifts do you consider to be a waste of time?

[Caino]

Exactly.

Each person and situation is deferent.

Yes bazza but im saying its not a waste of time when these lifts can be done for more then relative strength

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[Bazza20]

Yes bazza but im saying its not a waste of time when these lifts can be done for more then relative strength

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It's is a waste of time when there can be better exercises or ways to use the time than the three powerlifts.

There is nothing magical about them and you can't seriously think these three exercises are going to be beneficial in every situation in every person.

I know they can be used for more than strength.

Squats for endurance may be useful if you are doing an endurance squatting competition otherwise there will be better options.

Speed squats could help speed and power but for most sports I would argue there are many many better alternatives than them.

 

[Caino]

Ill just say my last piece I think these lifts to 90percent of sports and normal people are definitely not a waste of time and in result have very much carry over on a chosen sport, for the small amoun, the 10% yes @bazza20 mum doing vacuuming or the person who shoots guns and bow and arrows or what not would see no benifit accept for maybe building strenth (who doesnt want that) and some hypertrophy too, but if I where to choose a leg extention over a sqaut I know id be wasting my time

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[Brick]

Clean, ohp, stiff leg dead > squat bench dead unless your training for powerlifting.

 

[Timeah]

Clean, ohp, stiff leg dead > squat bench dead unless your training for powerlifting.

So they are better if training for anything other than powerlifting? Too broad a statement I think.

Its all situational as mentioned earlier. All goal dependant.

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[Goosey]

You would think that with all the banter here over the years some would have it sorted.

 

[Goosey]

Clean, ohp, stiff leg dead > squat bench dead unless your training for powerlifting.

That's a pretty good summation brick.

There are a lot of good exercises available to us to develop certain areas of the body.
To think that; squat, dead and bench is all one needs is toolish thinking.

if you look at the three, you'll see that although multi joint exercises they all rely on just a few muscles to do the mechanical work.

squat= quads, glutes
dead= back, hip
bench=triceps, delts

 

[Brick]

That's a pretty good summation brick.

There are a lot of good exercises available to us to develop certain areas of the body.
To think that; squat, dead and bench is all one needs is toolish thinking.

if you look at the three, you'll see that although multi joint exercises they all rely on just a few muscles to do the mechanical work.

squat= quads, glutes
dead= back, hip
bench=triceps, delts

Thanks, I forgot front squat > back squat

 

[steveP]

squat deadlift and bench are a waste of time

Punctuation is a waste of time.