Showing off your defined muscles means nothing if you don’t have smaller stabilizers and assisting muscles. If you choose to ignore working on them, you may pay the price in the long run by dealing with injuries, painful workouts, or even an unbalanced body. Here are the ones you should focus on:

1. Gluteus Medius and Minimus

When these two muscles are toned, they lift the glutes. They are vital for walking and climbing stairs. Your gluteus maximus muscle can’t reach its full potential without these two smaller muscles being in shape. You can work on them by using a heavy resistance band, putting it around your ankles, getting into a squat position with your hands out front or on your hips, and taking eight to 10 side-steps in both directions. 

2. Obliques

You can’t get that six-pack that you want without working your obliques. The oblique muscles are those that cross from the bottom of your rib cage, diagonally, to your pubic area. You can work on your obliques by doing bicycle crunches.

3. Tibialis Anterior

Shin splints are not fun, and a way to avoid them is to work out the muscle directly next to your shin bone, the tibialis anterior. You can exercise this muscle by sitting in a chair with your feet flat on the ground and your heels on the ground. Move your toes up and down for eight to 10 reps.

4. Hamstrings

Having big quads and weak hamstrings can bring on potential knee injuries. This can happen due to an unequal pull on the joint. You can use hamstring curl machines and standing leg curl machines to work out your hamstrings.

5. Forearm Extensors

These muscles help you grip heavy items such as dumbbells and weights. Weak forearm extensors can affect your ability to train your larger muscles. While watching TV, you can squeeze and release a tennis ball for three sets of 10 reps to work them out and keep them in shape.

40+ Times People Ate Disgusting Food Out of Politeness

By Mary Miller – 12/20/21

Pie is supposed to be extra sweet, so if you’re all out of sugar, the last substitute would be a sour food source. Yet, this woman’s mother-in-law for some reason unbeknown to us uses the sourest fruit ever as her base.

Then, to make matters worse, she layers the pie with saltine crackers. Why would someone do such a thing? We wouldn’t give in to social pressure to eat such a thing. Well, unless we’d be majorly incentivized. Then we’d consider it!

Have you ever accidentally inhaled perfume and then ended up tasting it for the rest of the day? For those of you who are clumsy like us, we bet you have and most definitely don’t want a repeat of it.

So, in that case, we suggest you stay far away from this sparkle perfume tea. Also, we’re pretty sure it isn’t safe to sip on perfume… Rather use your favorite fragrance on your neck or wrist, only.

Yum, everyone’s favorite… Grandma’s bacteria-filled chili. But seriously, we can’t even imagine how bad it must have been to eat this. The smell alone must have been unbearable and that would have been enough to deter us from trying it. Sorry, not sorry!

On another note, how did she not know that the chili would go bad? They live in Georgia. And it was the middle of summer. Maybe this grandma should find a new hobby like knitting or playing Sudoku.

Sometimes your own hair somehow ends up in your food. It’s not a pleasant experience but it does happen. However, noticing cat hair is a totally different and unsavory story.

So, in order to prevent this, we suggest ensuring that the cat is in another room while the cooking is going on. As great as this mom sounds, nobody wants to eat her ‘Cat’-atouille. Gosh, we’re funny, right? We’re now dropping the mic.

For some reason, toddlers like to add their boogers to everything. As much as parents try to stop them, most times it proves to be futile. But what you can try to do is not let them spread their boogers.

This poor aunty didn’t get that memo and tried a bite of her niece’s banana delicacy. Turns out, it wasn’t so much fine dining and more on the disgusting front after being tampered with child boogers.

Pizza is one of the most beloved dishes so there is nothing worse than hyping yourself up for a yummy homemade slice only to receive burnt scraps. A normal person would just say no to the offer altogether, but this sister was trying to be kind.

We get the whole polite thing but seriously, at what cost? People have to draw a line in the sand on what they will and won’t allow and for us, we’re drawing it at burnt pizza.

The fact that we’ve never heard of bear meat isn’t a good start. Then to hear that it looked, tasted, and smelled like sewage only adds to our disgust. We would have claimed we were newly vegetarian just to get us out of that situation.

As much as we loved or respected the cook, why should our tastebuds have to suffer? When we hear that eating something is like an assault, we don’t even want to tempt fate by finding out why. No sir.

In the kitchen, experimentation is key, especially when you’re working with a limited stock of ingredients. But with that being said, you can’t substitute something sweet with something savory.

So, as cute as this granny is, it doesn’t mean to say that we’d want to try out her black bean cookies when they actually should be chocolate chip. We don’t want to sound high maintenance or anything but we’d definitely pass up on that offer.

Now, we’re not judging, we just have one simple question ― How on God’s green earth do you mix up a tablespoon and a cup? No, but seriously, how? And for your information, one cup approximately has about 5-6 tablespoons, depending on the size of the spoon.

Meaning, that teriyaki steak must have been as salty as the ocean itself. The only way such a thing could happen is for one of two reasons. Either, she was mad about something and this was the payback or she had never cooked.

We all love our food and mixing different types together on a plate is totally normal but each food needs to complement one another. Otherwise, you’ll end up with really confused and grossed-out tastebuds, like what happened here.

First of all, who boils chicken in ketchup? We’re gagging over the visual of this. Then secondly, pickled watermelon doesn’t very sound appetizing, right? So, who would want to pair those inventions together? In this instance, two wrongs don’t make a right!

Tomato soup traditionally has chicken stock broth, garlic, sugar, and plenty of other ingredients besides just the tomatoes. So, we’re pretty sure that this old-fashioned soup is missing most of its components.

But that doesn’t mean to say it will taste terribly bad or anything, so considering the other foods on this list, this tomato soup is the least of our worries. With that being said, unless you love the taste of tomatoes, it’s best you skip this one.

Okay. First of all, eww. Second of all, please no! This is bringing steak tartare to a whole new level and not in a good way. Most people can hardly stomach the idea of raw, minced steak, and we’re talking about prime cut meat.

Imagine chewing on raw, undissolved chunks of fatty and leathery meat. This sounds like something contestants on a show like Survivor would be forced to eat. Because all we know is that we’d have to be paid to even try this dish.

When you make chicken soup, you boil the whole chicken in order to make stock for the soup, so is that the same procedure for turtle soup? Please, tell us no! We simply can’t fathom it.

And do they actually boil the turtle with the shell and everything? We need answers. It’s really gross, yet extremely fascinating at the same time. We truly wonder what it tastes like, though we have no desire to actively try.

We’ve heard of an apple martini but what on earth is a blue cheese martini? We get that cheese pairs nicely with wine but this beverage seems to be taking it a step too far. Call us old-fashioned, but cheese should be nibbled on, not drank.

Imagine slurping on a cheesy liquid that would also get you inebriated. No, thank you! We’ll pass. Why? Well, all of a sudden we’ve decided that we’re lactose intolerant.

The separate ingredients here all sound yummy but when you add them together, you get a greasy, unhealthy, and unappetizing overload of flavors. Yet, still, this uncle calls this his signature meal. Gross!

Plus, who in their right mind puts two cups of cheese into a meal? Surely wasting this much cheese is illegal in Italy, right? Jokes aside, you’ll definitely end up with a bad tummy after consuming such a cheesy and carby dish.

Brownies are known to be very sugary and chocolatey, if you don’t taste these elements then you can’t actually call it a brownie. So, this Hershey’s concoction of spices and no sugar does not equate to a block of chocolate fudge to us.

We don’t mean to insult the baker behind this creation but we take our brownies seriously and we cannot allow people to now start labeling just anything with the same title. It will confuse people and maybe even diminish the holy brownie’s rep.

As delicious as strawberry shortcake sounds, it can easily be ruined with the wrong amounts of ingredients or perhaps even by adding the wrong product. For example, this woman confused cream of tartar with tartar sauce and the result must have been a vile-tasting cake.

We feel bad for her ex-boyfriend who felt obliged to eat tartar-infused cake on his birthday. Talk about bad luck, right? Truthfully, if we were in his shoes, we’d be a diva about it and refuse to touch the shortcake.

Initially, we thought this guy was a real sweetheart for sharing his lunch at work. But after we continued reading, we realized that this dude may very well want to poison his colleague. Why else would you give someone a 5-year-old sub?

Frankly, this person is lucky to be alive. He could have easily had salmonella poisoning. If we found out that someone had offered us something so expired, we would seriously consider getting lawyers involved!

When someone tries their best to please others and something goes wrong, you could help but feel bad for them. Such was the case for this darling grandma who simply wanted to cook up a pie for her family around the holidays.

Unfortunately, she made the ultimate chef mistake, thinking that the salt was sugar and the product of this was an overly-salted pie. If we were her family members, we’d pretend to eat it just to make her feel a bit better!

Yes, carbs are our friends but in moderation. So, the idea of a pizza with SpaghettiOs on top just sounds like overload to us. Also, frozen anything doesn’t give us the warm fuzzies.

We’re pretty sure it’s not even safe to eat frozen pizza so nothing about this meal sounds like a good idea to us. The person that suffered and ate this deserves a lifetime of delicious pizza from now 0n.

Before we dissect this lovely dish, we have a few questions. First of all, how did she fit all that inside a Jell-O mold? Secondly, why make such a combination? And lastly, who in their right mind would eat such a thing?

Please will someone attempt to answer some of our questions! We’re on pins and needles with this one. We didn’t realize people made such vile dishes since the ’60s.

Eggshells can be very useful in supplementing Calcium but with that being said, they should not be mixed in with your scrambled eggs. Why? Because there is a high risk that the recipient could choke on the eggshells and they don’t taste very good either.

Also, who adds cinnamon or cumin to their eggs? We feel like a child who had never cooked before made this dish as truthfully, it goes against a lot of basic cooking rules. Don’t you think?

If you’re attempting to make a puttanesca pasta, then it’s imperative that you cut up the olives and de-pit them. Otherwise, you or your friends could choke on them and this would ruin the whole meal.

But in this case, the recipient is also to blame as they didn’t know that olives contain pits that need to be spat out. Unless you live under a rock, how do you not know that? Sorry, but do better next time! Okay, we’re done with the lecture.

Isn’t removing scales a part of the normal preparation of any fish? Call us crazy but we don’t enjoy choking on our food and for this, we blame the host who chose to serve scaly fish.

Perhaps this is a delicacy in some cultures but it also isn’t safe as the bones or scales could cause an obstruction to your breathing. We draw the line at this hazardous scenario. Sorry, not sorry!

If you’re unsure of something, it’s always better to ask first before trying your luck. Otherwise, you just might end up eating plastic as did this sushi newbie. Poor thing! We hope that didn’t deter this person from trying sushi again.

After all, sushi is a gift from above. Obviously, it’s not for everyone but for us, next to pizza, sushi is queen. We can enjoy her at just about any time of the day. Yes, even breakfast.

When we hear the word ‘curry’, the first thing that comes to mind is flavor. Tasty, delicious, spicy goodness. Curry brings life to every dish. So we find that this curry-and-rhubarb concoction is an abomination to flavor.

Not an ounce of spice insight. Instead, there was oatmeal, tofu sausages, corn, tomato juice, chopped onions, raisins, ‘leftover broccoli leaves,’ kale, and scrambled eggs… Gross! That should be a grocery list instead of a meal.

If you see someone eating a bay leaf, surely you’d stop them and say something? Well, apparently not. This person was at her friend’s dinner and she came across this seasoning essential without realizing it wasn’t meant for consumption.

So, again we blame the hosts for not speaking up. Also, is it necessary to put bay leaves in spaghetti? We understand that people like to get creative in the kitchen but something here doesn’t sound right.

Tacos are an OG Mexican dish that is all about spice and flavor. So, the fact that this mother-in-law doesn’t use a touch of seasoning is almost offensive. We maybe overreacting but we stand strongly behind the traditional spicy taco.

So, we suggest she changes the dish’s name. Perhaps it’s better suited as lasagna? No, wait. Scratch that, it would be an insult to our favorite pasta dish. We’re actually at a loss for word on this one.

Just the thought of this next dish makes us want to gag so we’re not going to be overly descriptive here as then we’ll probably need to run to the toilet in disgust. So, we’ll keep it short and sweet…

Pot roasts should never be cooked in the microwave. Whoever thought to do this is either unfamiliar with a microwave, or simply doesn’t know how to cook. Also, “rubbery veins” should never be used when describing food.

Imagine spending your Christmas eve hunched over the toilet bowl, puking your guts out. Sounds like a total nightmare and the catalyst was this gross glazed ham that sounds like it was as dry as the Sahara desert.

It’s a miracle that it didn’t turn to dust once this person took a bite. Then this poor victim tried to cover up their stomach issues by blaming their lunch burrito bowl, as opposed to the real villain. Who knew the bad guy could be food?

Just as a rule of thumb ― if your seafood is blue, then chances are it’s uncooked and very possibly dangerous to eat. While we’re not professing to be experts, this just seems fishy to us. Pun totally intended!

We don’t care if the person serving us this blue shrimp was our partner’s boyfriend or the pope, we are not prepared to get sick over it. We would have starved ourselves until getting home and ordering a pizza.

Speaking of crimes related to lasagna, let’s talk about almonds. We love almonds. Not only are they pretty tasty but they also provide a great crunch. But just because an ingredient is good, doesn’t mean it belongs in every meal, right?

That would be like adding chili flakes to ice cream. Okay, we know that’s a little more extreme but you get the point. We hope that this is the first and last time we hear about an almond lasagna. Capiche? Glad we’re on the same page.

In this incident, the only person to blame is the dummy who thought a cork coaster was a wafer… Seriously? We can’t help but laugh at this one but this person is genuinely lucky that they didn’t land up in the emergency unit after this.

Besides that, the moral of the story here is if you do end up doing something really silly, make sure to clean up after yourselves. LOL. Only kidding! Well, actually, we wouldn’t want anyone to know that we’d eaten a coaster meant for glasses.

A banana and yogurt smoothie, you say? That sounds pretty tame to us. In fact, it sounds both healthy and delicious. We could grab one right about now. Wait, what? A banana, yogurt, and onion smoothie? Hell to the no!

We sincerely hope that this is a joke. Otherwise, we bet we’d cry from drinking this smoothie. Get it, because it has onions in it? Wow, we are on some kind of roll here!

We don’t know what could top this. Seriously. Just thinking about it makes the head spin. Being nice to others is fine until it has negative health effects on you. This recipe is bound to produce a heart condition at the very least.

Please do not mix soft drinks with meats, or any food for that matter, during the cooking process. Maybe some recipes allow for minor use of fizzy drinks, but, in our opinion, wine is way better.

Savory duck? That sounds just vile. Is there any type of meat that’s not mixed into it? It’s literally just raw pig’s heart, liver, fatty belly meat, and bacon. Also wrapped with pig’s caul fat. Excuse us for a moment…

Sorry, we’re back from a quick visit to the toilet. We have one more question for you all, why is it called ‘savory duck’, if it has nothing to do with duck whatsoever? We don’t understand yet we need answers.

Who would want to put sour lemon juice in their hot americano? Yet again, we’re at a loss for words which generally speaking, doesn’t happen very often. While this doesn’t totally disgust us, the thought of this drink actually hurts our teeth.

We live for our hot cuppa in the morning and to think that something like lemon juice could ruin our caffeine high just makes us mad. The only time this works would be if someone was trying to use it in a prank.

When it comes to cooking and baking, it’s all about quantities. So, if you mistake cup sizes for teaspoons, whatever you were working on should most probably be thrown away. Otherwise, the recipients of the meal have to pay and that doesn’t seem fair to us.

Waffles are supposed to bring joy to life but due to this salt overload, we can’t even begin to imagine how bad this must have tasted.

Lemon meringue pie actually sounds pretty delicious but when you remove the gluten and sugar, you lose the essence of it. So, we’re not surprised to hear that this gluten-free, sugar-free, and vegan pie was a bland disaster.

So to all the lemon meringue bakers out there, don’t take away its sweetness! It’s a borderline crime in our opinion. Sorry for being melodramatic because we’re sick of hearing about bad-tasting foods.

Okay, we’re sensing a certain amount of dislike towards fermented tofu. In fact, it’s more like open disdain. Never have we heard someone describe a certain flavor as brutally accurate as this person. It’s like nails on a chalkboard.

Also, does it really smell that bad? We can’t imagine eating something that feels worse than the pain of all those personal sufferings. Perhaps this person is simply allergic to tofu.

We’re amazed that people are willing to suck up an allergic reaction in order to please others. Also, if you have a peanut allergy, you should warn others before they even offer any food. It’s called being responsible!

This is the pinnacle of social anxiety when you could actually die, but you still go through with it because you’re too afraid to say anything. If you’re someone like this, keep an EpiPen with you at all times!

Well, if we’re being completely honest, beets do taste a bit too earthy. Especially when you juice them. To top it off, mixing them with carrots without adding something sweet to balance out the taste pretty much tastes like what you think it would.

Which is dirt. So, either don’t make this freaking juice. Or, simply add something sweet to make it taste more decent. Maybe an apple? Just saying.

Okay, fertilized bird egg or ‘balut’ definitely isn’t from everyone. Locals in Southeast Asia eat it on a regular basis. Heck, even tourists go crazy for it once they eventually try it. Though we definitely wouldn’t recommend it if you have a weak stomach.

Or if you’re easily grossed out, then also give it a miss. Just looking at it makes our stomach churn. But hey, if you want to try it, go right ahead. Bon appetit!

Your grandma’s cooking must have been pretty bad if the thought of cooked cabbage makes you cringe. Yikes. Some pretty fond memories, we’d say. Then again, we’d all do crazy things to please our darling grandmas.

Also, boiled cabbage smells disgusting. Like wet, stinky socks after a long summer day. We’d say the texture is even worse. So, yeah. We totally get why cabbage is on your no-no list.

Okay, this one is at the top of the list for some people. Others, however, find it delicious. So, which is it? For us, the whole sheep’s pluck thing makes us want to barf but you know, each to their own.

If you can stomach it, you should definitely try it. Some people claim it’s actually tasty. Who knows, maybe you’ll be one of the lucky few. Unless of course you throw up.