5 top exercises you must try in 2025
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. At one point, it was the norm to go to the gym, follow a trainer, do a handful of exercises mentioned on a booklet, and keep at them in a progressive pattern until you hit certain goals. But social media has changed all that.
A few searches on YouTube or Instagram, and your feed becomes a full-blown do-this-do-that exercise list. I enjoy this, because the variety of seeing what is being done in gyms around the world is easier than finding one person to trust and take you through a fitness journey. However, curating this is the challenge.
As 2024 comes to an end, here are the exercises that I added this year to my routine. Some led to strength, some to gains and some improved the way I felt. If this was a ranked list, then hip fall-backs would be number one on my list, for the simple reason that it has changed my game.
The hip-flexor is one of the toughest muscles to train and fall-backs are the only way to train them in an extended state. A post shared by Vernon Griffith CSCS*D TSACF*D (@vernongriffith4) I was so impressed with this that I wrote an entire article on it for Lounge, titled The best exercise to strengthen your hip flexor muscles. High performance coach Vernon Griffith has popularised this exercise with top sports stars.
It is important to keep this small muscle healthy, mobile, and strong, because a tightness here could lead to issues in the back, the glute and the knees. So if you are to choose one exercise to add to your 2025 to-do list, this is the one. I found out about this quite late in the year but it’s been a game changer for the lower back, and has helped the constant feeling of sciatic weakness dissipate.
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