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Top-8 “Danger Zone” Exercises, Part 2

Jonathan squatting, dark room

In our last training newsletter, we had the first four “Exercises that Cause the Most Injuries.”

If you missed it, they’re preacher curls, overhead presses, deadlifts, and bench presses. I’ve done all of those over the years and sustained my share of injuries; however, I was never unlucky enough to have to go under the knife for joint repair. I still have recurring pain, however.

Here are the remaining four: [Read more…]

Filed Under: X Files Tagged With: dangerous, injuries

“Why Do You Use This Dangerous Move?”

Steve's arm in a T-shirt (in his backyard)

Q: I just got Old Man, Young Muscle and notice that you talk about limiting danger in your workouts. But you include dumbbell pullovers. Isn’t that exercise very dangerous for the shoulder joints? [Read more…]

Filed Under: X Files Tagged With: dangerous, muscle-building dangers

Dangerous Stretch Partials?

Woman demonstrating stiff-legged deadlift partials

Q: I think you’ve said that partials should not be performed on more dangerous stretch exercises, like stiff-legged deadlifts. So I should just keep doing all of my stretch sets with full-range reps?

A: I’ve said that X-Reps, stretch partials at the end of a full-range set, can be dangerous. That’s because the muscles are fatigued from the full-range work, so those end-of-set partials can be harder to control. However… [Read more…]

Filed Under: X Files Tagged With: dangerous, full-range, partial reps, stretch partials

Mr. America’s Top-8 “Danger Zone” Exercises, Part 2

Arnold doing behind-the-neck pulldowns

Yesterday we had the first four of Mr. America and 2019 Drug-Free Mr. Universe Doug Brignole’s “Exercises that Cause the Most Injuries.”

If you missed it, they are [Read more…]

Filed Under: X Files Tagged With: behind-the-neck pulldowns, bench dips, dangerous, dips, drug-free, Mr. America, mr. universe, squats, T-bar rows

Mr. America’s Top-8 “Danger Zone” Exercises, Part 1

Jonathan doing one-arm preacher curls

With the sequel to “Top Gun” taking off at the box office, I thought I’d work in the signature song title from the original: “Danger Zone” by Kenny Loggins.

It fits with Mr. America and 2019 Drug-Free Mr. Universe Doug Brignole’s “Exercises that Cause the Most Injuries.” He lists eight, and I’ve done all of them at one point or another—and been injured by at least half of them. Even now, pain from some of those injuries prevents me from doing other sane exercises. Sucks.

Here are the first four; [Read more…]

Filed Under: X Files Tagged With: bench press, dangerous, deadlifts, Doug Brignole, Mr. America, mr. universe, overhead press, preacher curls

Press Here for Shoulder Size

Q: I’m using Jonathan’s 10-Week Size Surge Workout [in the 3D Muscle Building e-book], and for shoulders, it has dumbbell upright rows as the first exercise for midrange work; then I do incline one-arm laterals for stretch, and then standing laterals [contracted]. I added two sets of dumbbell presses after that for more shoulder size, as you’ve suggested, for some overhead shoulder work. My question is, Why do you sometimes recommend presses first? Aren’t those dangerous for your shoulder joints?

A: We only do behind-the-neck presses first if we use a technique that allows lighter weight, such as negative-accentuated (six-second lowering), 4X, 10×10, TORQ, etc. As you said, in the quest for shoulder size, heavy weights on behind-the-neck exercises can wreck your rotator cuffs.

For heavy pressing at the start of a shoulder workout, we use either Smith machine military presses (to the front) or dumbbell presses…

[Read more…]

Filed Under: X Files Tagged With: 10-week Size Surge, 10x10, 3d muscle building, 4X, behind-the-neck presses, dangerous, mike westerdal, negative-accentuated, protect your family, rotator cuffs, shoulder joints, shoulder presses, shoulder size, shoulder workout, TORQ, variation

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