What is the hardest exercise to teach?

Due to the mutiple muscles groups involved, the Squat and Dead Lifts are probably the most difficult exercises to teach people to do them "correctly". So many variables to consider when they are executed correctly! :)

Any sort of deadlift or good mornings. People just find it hard to use there hips instead of there knees, in my experience.

The deadlift for sure!!!

Hip opener yoga poses for people with tight hips. It's tricky to set them up so they are not compromising their knees and lower backs. Often times gravity fed poses (poses that require resisting gravity-such as pigeon) need to be adjusted so they are not stretching with the weight of their body, rather, they are using their own controlled force to move into the stretch. Such a modification would mean having the client lay on their back in the same pose, just in reverse, and use their arms to draw their leg in, rather than having them lean their entire body weight into the pose to accomplish the same thing. Less risky.

Shoulder girdle depression dips.

Some people naturally do slight and/or stay in elevation stay without thinking.

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The deadlift every time it seems.

Turkish get up with a kettlebell.

My initial answer would be pretty much any multi-joint, resisted exercise that the client has not performed before. As far as a specific exercise, I would say any of the Olympic lifts (clean, jerk etc).

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Many people have highly over-active traps, and they find it very difficult do differentiate shoulder abduction from elevation: in other words, raising the arms without attaching the shoulders to the ears. Learning to do this correctly has an impact on the entire shoulder girdle integrity.