Like most people, I started my strength training journey by doing way too much online research. As such, I encountered a lot of mixed messaging about which exercises are good and which aren’t. A few seemingly perfect moves appeared more often than others, making them look like the bee’s knees.
In practice, though, these proved to be much overrated. Below, I shared three of the worst offenders, which, to be honest, I still include in my workouts to this day, but to a lesser extent. It’s worth noting that being overrated doesn’t necessarily mean bad; it’s more that they are attributed better qualities that they possess.
