7 Risky Exercises and Better Bet
7 Risky Exercises and Better Bet Posted Workout Not Working? Who has time to waste on ineffective, risky exercises? Not you. So ditch these seven moves that won’t deliver the results you want — and may even cause injury. No. 1: Lat Pull-down Behind the Head The problem: Only people with very mobile shoulder joints can keep their spines straight enough to do this exercise properly. So the move — done wrong — can lead to several complications including shoulder impingement or worse, a tear in the rotator cuff. And if the bar hits the back of the neck, it could injure cervical vertebrae. A Safer Lat Pull-down On the pull–down machine, lean back a few degrees, use a wider–than–shoulder grip, and bring the bar down in front of your body to the breastbone, pulling shoulder blades down and together. Contract your abdominals to stabilize the body, and avoid using momentum to swing the bar up and down. The lat pull–down works both lower and upper ba...