Hi everyone and welcome to this week's Ask Alice. Now the question that I

received this week is a really good one. I love when I get fitness related

questions and this one was centered around something that I've really

changed my opinion on over the last few years so I thought it was a great question

for that reason. So the question read are there any exercises within strength

training that you don't recommend and it was kind of as part of a

wider context of a message about whether we should be doing certain exercises or not. But I kind of picked this bit out

because I think it's a great question. You know, I am someone who has

had a real journey with how I approach, how I feel about kind of looking at other exercises

and what exercise I recommend and don't

recommend and so it was a nice moment for me to be able to look back and be like oh yeah I

have really changed my stance on this so like I just said over the years I have really changed my tune and I think that one of the things that I think it's so important for us to understand which I maybe didn't when I was a younger greener coach and just felt like I knew exactly what was the right thing and the wrong thing to do, which is that all exercises, every single exercise that you might see whether you're in the gym looking at it, whether you're seeing it online, you know, wherever it might be, all of those exercises are dependent on context.

And by that I mean, we never normally do one exercise in isolation. We normally do them as part of a program and I'm talking about

strength training here specifically as that was what the question was but they're often part of a program, a wider kind of workout that you're doing, and not

only is it dependent on the other exercises that kind of sandwich the exercise that you might

see or think that is quite unquote wrong, but also part of a wider context of what's that person's goal, how long have they been training for, what is their desired outcome what's their availability in terms of equipment

what's their training age and so there are so many things that that kind of make me

or anyone else that's programming something, choose an exercise or put something in.

Now, the reason why I start by saying this is that I used to be quite judgmental, I'd say, and this is being totally

transparent here, but quite judgmental about'd say and this is being totally transparent here but quite

judgmental about some exercise selection that I would see particularly online

and we know that the fitness space has boomed online on Instagram and Tik-Toc and

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