If An Exercise Does THIS, Avoid It Like The Plague

Recently, I wrote my wife a new workout program and yesterday we did the lower body day to rebuild her strength so she can get back to doing deadlifts asap.

In case you missed it, here’s what that workout was supposed to look like:

• Glute bridges — 2 sets of 5–15 reps
• Split squats — 2 sets of 5–15 reps
• Bodyweight squats — 2 sets of 5–15 reps
• Mini crunches — 2 sets of 5–15 reps

Glute bridges went great, but by the end of the workout, it ended up looking a fair bit different.

The reason?

Hip and knee issues.

We quickly found out she has the same issue I dealt with lately…

The issue is a lack of mobility in one ankle causing issues up the kinetic chain.

And that trigger exercise for her was split squats.

Instead of pushing through, we cut it after the first set, deleted it right off the plan, moved on to bodyweight squats, and tried a couple different exercises at the end.

But the struggles didn’t end there…

Even on bodyweight squats, she was dealing with the same ankle mobility issue, but…