There are suggestions all time from others about exercise. If you are getting pain in you joints after exercise, it is not necessary to follow them. Sometimes you feel good type of pain, in which your muscles that got exercise are sore.

Each and every person has different make up of their body. So it may happen that exercise that suits to number of people may cause pain in your joints. This can happen due to two reasons:

1. Firstly, it may be due to wrong way of doing exercise. This means you need revising and tightening up or

2. As we discussed above every person has different body type. So your body is not able to take that particular movement and result into pain.

If you are sure about exercising technique, than the best option is to stop doing that exercise

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Having said this, there are some exercises that are encouraged by coaches all over the world, which you should not do regardless, because they hurt your joints or are just plain dangerous.

You may try these movements with no apparent effect now, but even if this is the case, I guarantee that they’ll catch up with you in the future.

Here are the worst offenders;

1. The bent over row

This movement puts the back in a very vulnerable position. You have to try and keep your back parallel to the floor whilst being bent over at the waist, and hauling a heavy weight up and down. This is a great way to hurt your back.

2. The upright row

The upright row is incredibly bad for the shoulders and wrists. It even looks unnatural as an exercise movement. Avoid!

3. Any pressing movement behind the neck

A sure way to wear your shoulders out and do them some permanent damage. Nothing to be gained from pressing this way in any case, so why bother?

4. Dead lifting off a raised platform

Puts your lower back in a very vulnerable position. Not only that, but there’s no extra muscle building effect from lifting this way, so as regards risk-reward it’s a very bad investment.

5. Squatting with the heels raised

This is very bad for the knees. If you do this because you can’t squat without elevated heels, then you need to work on your ankle flexibility.

6. Chinning behind the neck

I actually saw a lunatic doing this in a you tube video the other day. It was an impressive show of strength from a complete fool. Unfortunately people see this and they copy it. Don’t!

7. Bench pressing to the neck

Again, very bad for the shoulders. This is a very common fault in gyms everywhere. The bar should be at the level of the nipples, or even an inch or two lower than that. You’ll need to practise this, so start off with a lighter weight and gradually build your weights back up. When you get used to it, you’ll realise it’s a much safer and more stable set up.

There’s a subtle difference between the first three exercises and the last four.

The first three are just bad exercises that shouldn’t be done under any circumstances, the last four are very bad versions of basically sound exercises.

Dead lifting, squatting, benching and chinning are essential exercises if done the right way. But doing them in the manner above is very dangerous.

I know I moan on constantly about using perfect technique in all weight training exercises , but always keep uppermost in your mind that if you’re injured you can’t train, and you’ll certainly never build your dream body if you’re constantly laid up, trying to get over your latest injury.

By avoiding the seven movements above, you’re stacking the deck much more heavily in your favour.

I’d like to finish this article by re emphasising that any exercise that hurts your joints is bad for you, so you need to either clean your form up so it doesn’t hurt, or scrap that exercise altogether and find a different exercise that stresses the same muscle groups, without causing joint pain.

Good luck!