Orthopaedic surgeon Dr Ankur Singh listed five workouts he stopped doing after becoming a specialist. “Years of treating injuries change the way you look at certain exercises, and these 5 didn’t make the cut. Here are 5 workouts I STOPPED doing after becoming an orthopaedic surgeon,” he noted in an Instagram post.

This position forces the shoulders into extreme external rotation and puts unnecessary stress on the rotator cuff. Great way to irritate your joints… not a great way to build muscle.

The deadlift isn’t the enemy; bad mechanics are. Most people round their spine under load, and that’s where disc issues start. I swapped these for variations that keep my back safer, he mentioned.

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