Fitness Superlatives!

[Hermione Gainser]

Shamelessly taken from someone on another site. I thought it was fun and wanted to share. Maybe some of you awesome nerds can expand upon it, too!

Exercise that makes me feel powerful: Overhead or Bench Press... even if they are some of my smallest numbers

Exercise I can do now I couldn't do a year ago: Barbell squat

Exercise that makes me feel like I belong at the gym: Barbell squat or deadlift

Exercise I feel dumb doing: Zumba for cardio

Exercise I simultaneously love and dread: Squats. They're my goat but when I break through a new number it's the most gratifying thing EVER.

Okay, YOUR TURN!

[ETFnerd]

Exercises that make me want to barf: Burpees

[Gainsdalf the Whey]

I like this idea.

Exercise that makes me feel powerful: Squats and Deadlifts, because I can pick up large people now.

Exercise I can do now I couldn't do a year ago: Pullups, even if it is only 1 or 2.

Exercise that makes me feel like I belong at the gym: Squats, because its something I know is a huge fundamental that others ignore.

Exercise I feel dumb doing: The elliptical, I will never move in that motion ever, so I don't do it.

Exercise I simultaneously love and dread: Overhead Press, because I want so much to press my weight over my head but am struggling with less than half that weight.

[ETFnerd]

Exercises that make me make me feel awkward about myself: Taking snaps from center...

[ETFnerd]

Exercises that make me make me feel awkward about myself (part II): greco-roman wrestling and the guard in MMA where you are trying to hold on to another dude as tightly as possible...

[ETFnerd]

Exercises that make me make me feel awkward about myself (part III): male cheerleading practice... don't know if it's a good or bad thing that I've always wanted to participate...

[This is Seth]

Exercise that makes me feel powerful: Squat, Deadlift... anything involving more than three plates.

Exercise I can do now I couldn't do a year ago: Dragon Flags, mofo

Exercise that makes me feel like I belong at the gym: Pull Ups, seriously. I suck at them, but they make me feel awesome.

Exercise I feel dumb doing: Cable Crunches and Incline Crunches. I haven't exactly figured out how to get onto the platform for the incline crunches without looking like a jackass yet.

Exercise I simultaneously love and dread: Bench Press, numbers are no where near where I want them. But it feels good when they go up.

p.s. ETFnerd, "edit post"

[Hermione Gainser]

Exercise that makes me feel powerful: Squat, Deadlift... anything involving more than three plates.

Exercise I can do now I couldn't do a year ago: Dragon Flags, mofo

Exercise that makes me feel like I belong at the gym: Pull Ups, seriously. I suck at them, but they make me feel awesome.

Exercise I feel dumb doing: Cable Crunches and Incline Crunches. I haven't exactly figured out how to get onto the platform for the incline crunches without looking like a jackass yet.

Exercise I simultaneously love and dread: Bench Press, numbers are no where near where I want them. But it feels good when they go up.

p.s. ETFnerd, "edit post"

Dude, dragon flags? I bow to your awesomeness!

to add to ps: dude, answer the original, too! Sheesh

[Gainsdalf the Whey]

Exercise I feel dumb doing: Cable Crunches and Incline Crunches. I haven't exactly figured out how to get onto the platform for the incline crunches without looking like a jackass yet.

Truth.

[ebm1224]

ooo fun! reminds me of those books we used to pass around in middle school where you had a sticker that correlated to you and you wrote your answers to a question on each page next to your sticker. you know you all loved those things. ps: i don't do a ton of heavy lifting shite just yet so mine might be kinda different.

Exercise that makes me feel powerful: dumbell rows since i can use higher weights for that.

Exercise I can do now I couldn't do a year ago: assisted pullups. well, maybe i could but i never tried before.

Exercise that makes me feel like I belong at the gym: dumbell press

Exercise I feel dumb doing: that one where your legs are on a ball and your hands are on the ground and you sorta crunch up by rolling the ball with your feet and tucking in your knees. i fell last time because the ball was too big.

Exercise I simultaneously love and dread: lunges. eff you, lunges!!!!!

[ETFnerd]

alright, i think slow...

Exercise that makes me feel powerful: breaking stacks of concrete pavers, driving nails with the palm of my hand, two knuckle push ups on a concrete surface

Exercise I can do now I couldn't do a year ago: wide grip pullups

Exercise that makes me feel like I belong at the gym: treadmill shuffle

Exercise I feel dumb doing: martial arts forms

Exercise I simultaneously love and dread: squat jumps up stairs

[Maggie May]

Exercise that makes me feel powerful: Clean & jerks or snatches. Something about throwing weight over my head...

Exercise I can do now I couldn't do a year ago: Rope climbs or toes-to-bar

Exercise that makes me feel like I belong at the gym: Deadlifts!

Exercise I feel dumb doing: Box jumps. I feel like I swing my arms so much I probably look like an idiot.

Exercise I simultaneously love and dread: Rowing.

[spezzy]

ok, i'll play:

Exercise that makes me feel powerful: deadlift

Exercise I can do now I couldn't do a year ago: snatch, l sit, pistol squat

Exercise that makes me feel like I belong at the gym: all of them?

Exercise I feel dumb doing: Nothing. I feel awesome doing everything.

Exercise I simultaneously love and dread: Rowing. Burpees.

[weirdquark]

Exercise that makes me feel powerful: Pullups. Overhead press. Bench. Any upper body thing, really, because for some reason I'm really good at them and usually women aren't.

Exercise I can do now I couldn't do a year ago: Anything with free weights-- I didn't start lifting until April, so a year ago I was still doing 20min on the elliptical every day. (We had it in the house and it was better than nothing.)

Exercise that makes me feel like I belong at the gym: I almost never go to the gym. But I took a dance class at the gym once and there was a lat pull-down machine that I'd use while I was waiting for the class to start. I'd do heavy sets of a few reps and it made me feel badass because I saw a guy using it later on and I used more weight than he did. (He probably did more reps though...)

Exercise I feel dumb doing: Nothing that I still do. But for things that I did once because they were part of a program, lateral flexion exercises. I did these for NRoLfW-- basically a side crunch where you lift your upper body and your top leg. Even holding a dumbbell behind my head to make it harder didn't help.

Exercise I simultaneously love and dread: Squats. Most challenging for keeping good form whenever I add weight, and I'm having a harder time leveling up on these than on anything else, which I find baffling.

[Waldo]

Exercise that makes me feel powerful: Pushups. It is the most similar exercise to a punch. Being able to rep smoothly with good form pushups is an ingrained standard or strength for me.

Exercise I can do now I couldn't do a year ago: Pullup, run a mile

Exercise that makes me feel like I belong at the gym: Hmm, I guess treadmill running. I haven't been in a gym in over a decade though.

Exercise I feel dumb doing: V Ups

Exercise I simultaneously love and dread: Squats, really dread because of how much they used to hurt.

[Hermione Gainser]

Exercise that makes me feel powerful: Pullups. Overhead press. Bench. Any upper body thing, really, because for some reason I'm really good at them and usually women aren't.

Exercise I can do now I couldn't do a year ago: Anything with free weights-- I didn't start lifting until April, so a year ago I was still doing 20min on the elliptical every day. (We had it in the house and it was better than nothing.)

Exercise that makes me feel like I belong at the gym: I almost never go to the gym. But I took a dance class at the gym once and there was a lat pull-down machine that I'd use while I was waiting for the class to start. I'd do heavy sets of a few reps and it made me feel badass because I saw a guy using it later on and I used more weight than he did. (He probably did more reps though...)

Exercise I feel dumb doing: Nothing that I still do. But for things that I did once because they were part of a program, lateral flexion exercises. I did these for NRoLfW-- basically a side crunch where you lift your upper body and your top leg. Even holding a dumbbell behind my head to make it harder didn't help.

Exercise I simultaneously love and dread: Squats. Most challenging for keeping good form whenever I add weight, and I'm having a harder time leveling up on these than on anything else, which I find baffling.

Ohhh! I forgot about those stupid lateral flexions.. yeah I feel really fn stupid doing them. Not silly stupid, like zumba, but "I look like an asshole" stupid. hahaha

[NukeTheUnicorns]

Exercise that makes me feel powerful: Dips.

Exercise I can do now I couldn't do a year ago: Pistol squats.

Exercise that makes me feel like I belong at the gym: Proper form pull-ups.

Exercise I feel dumb doing: I don't do exercises that make me feel dumb

Exercise I simultaneously love and dread: BURPEES.

[Top Boss Ultra]

Exercise that makes me feel powerful: Pull-ups

Exercise I can do now I couldn't do a year ago: Pull-ups

Exercise that makes me feel like I belong at the gym: Don't know. I've never been.

Exercise I feel dumb doing: Lunges. I don't know what it is about them.

Exercise I simultaneously love and dread: Right now, assisted pistol squats. They take it out of me, but I know I will feel like a total badass when I can do them unassisted.