There's no such thing as a bad exercise

Someone tells me an exercise is bad for them about once a day.

Squats wreck my knees. Deadlifts killed my back. Overhead pressing is off the table now.

I get why people land there. You did the thing, the thing hurt, so the thing is the problem. Clean story. It's just usually wrong.

There's no such thing as a bad exercise. There's a position your body can't express well yet, and a load you piled on top of that position anyway. Change the position so you can actually use the range you already own, and most of the "bad" exercises stop being bad.

That's most of what I do with people. Not banning the lifts they love. Finding the version of the lift they can own today, then building back toward the one they miss.

Greg sat on a 7-year plateau convinced certain lifts just weren't for his body anymore. We didn't throw them out. We changed how he got into them and loaded from there. He hit PRs in three and a half months.

I've been off the grid the last little while, away with family and mostly off my phone. Back now, and I'm opening a few 1:1 spots this month.

So if you've been cutting lifts out of your training one at a time without really deciding to, this is the window. We start with a Ground-Up Assessment, find the positions you can own, and build a roadmap back to the lifts you actually want.

Apply here: https://www.gmarco.ca/rebuild

Worth saying plainly: every body, history, and effort level is different, so I can't promise you Greg's timeline or anyone else's. What I can do is look at your situation honestly and tell you what I see.

Gabe