THE EXPERIMENT
Why 9 out of 10 viral gym exercises didn't make the cut… and the 22 that will change how you train
Hey, I'm Corey-Jay Eyndhoven.
Over the last several months, I ran a ridiculous experiment: I tested 207 of the most viral gym exercises on TikTok and Instagram.
If an influencer claimed an exercise was a "game changer", I tried it on camera.
And you know what I found? Most of it didn't hold up.
Out of 207 exercises tested (with over 281 million views on the tests):
- 185 didn't make the cut. Awkward, overhyped, or just not worth your sets.
- Only 22 made the cut as game-changing PUMPS.
Instead of leaving those 22 scattered across hundreds of posts, I put them into one structured 4-day upper/lower split.
I call it PUMPS ONLY.