Sometimes people exercise and just waste their time doing it. I see it all the time, especially at some old school gyms. When I say worthless exercises, I mean people are trying to eliminate flab and reduce their waistline while building muscle by doing movements that don’t accomplish anything. Let me say this again: stay with the fundamentals and do them often.

You should be working a lot less than sixty minutes, doing effective movements that will take you closer to your goals and you should only have to do it three days out of seven, no more. To get started, let me point out some movements that are going to be worth avoiding: you shouldn’t bother with them.

One: Stick Twisting. With this movement, you put a broom stick over your shoulders and swivel yourself back and forth from left to right. This movement is supposed to get the inches off you waistline.

The problem is that it doesn’t work that way. I hope you’re not very surprised about that.

It doesn’t matter what size stick you try, you’re gong to stay fat. The preferred way to go is through intense aerobic work as part of intervals: that will do the job.

Two: Tricep and Bicep Movements.

You don’t need to do much in the way of bicep and tricep isolation unless you’re competing in body building. if you’re as busy as most people are, you won’t want to waste your time on that sort of thing.

Instead, you should try some push up variations from the kneel or with a fist-grip.

You will see a whole lot more benefit should you skip isolation movements for multi-joint moves.

Three: Stand-up exercises with balls and gadgets. Doing traditional exercises while standing on a balancing-ball are great ways to enhance the benefits of upright movements.