Is your homemade exercise routine doing you damage?

It was only the other day I found myself down at the local park observing, as I do other PT's, their clients and other people with what was very obvious to be a home made exercise routine. This is what I unfortunately witnessed...

I'm going to start with the PT I observed training a middle aged woman who was approx 20kg overweight. The PT (he) was taking his client through some boxing and she was putting in a very big effort which was great to see. The PT on the other hand showed shocking technique as he slapped the focus pads whilst holding them only putting his client at an increased chance of wrist injury. The combinations were boring and can be best described as group fitness boxing. (lots of punches with next to no technique).

Moving on I witnessed a male for approx 15min cycle through an obviously home made exercise program. Pushups in a very shoulder dominant position, behind the head chinups, crunches all the way to upright, hanging 90* leg holds just to name a few. Now at a quick glance his postural analysis determined very easily that he had rounded shoulders and lordosis (tight traps, delts, chest, lats, hipflexors, and quads etc).

The exercises he was performing also with bad technique were hitting all the above muscles and only contributing to his worsening posture. Also increasing his chance of pain and injury in the future.

Word of advice don't set yourself up for failure. Far to often I see people with obvious postural conditions following a program that is only making their condition worse. If you have a trainer question them, if you haven't sought advice then do so... If your program consists of mostly the following then best you change it.
- chinups, pushups, situps, bicep curls, squats, bench press, front raises.

Any questions shoot them through and as a final note please NEVER EVER especially if your a trainer have people doing pushups whilst boxing. It increases the chance of injury, is very boring and only encourages poor boxing technique.... Come on people it's one of the first things we ever learn !!!