here's chris bumstead squatting 5 plates on the smith machine https://youtu.be/NqGBG_mN-94?t=407
inb4 >muh roids >5 plates on smith is not impressive >his legs are small (lmao)
https://www.wcax.com/2022/05/26/23-year-old-paramedic-dies-when-machine-falls-her-gym/
STLgays I applaud the smith machine for its service to the community
Post the webm.
How many elite athletes do you see putting in heavy work on the Smith machine
Elite athletes? Dangerous? Dude I just want a pump.
more dangerous for generally worse results
It's easier, why would you want it to be easier?
Because it retricts movement to only 1 plane. You have to move your body with the bar not the other way around
Imagine using a machine that looks like the prime suspect of every Chinese CCTV Factory accident.
Made me spit out my preworkout
It's better for hip thrusts and bent over rows, but inferior for bench, squat, and OHP.
Why is it better for rows? Curious since I love my barbell rows.
Doing any exercise other than calf raises and maybe hip thrusts on the Smith machine is the ultimate dyel/ego lifter cope
here's chris bumstead squatting 5 plates on the smith machine https://youtu.be/NqGBG_mN-94?t=407
inb4
>muh roids
>5 plates on smith is not impressive
>his legs are small (lmao)
Idk I just whatever I think is fun in the gym and that's not a smith machine
not setting the safeties turns it into a guillotine. I couldn't watch after his knee started bending. moron.
It's worse than free weights
It's less versatile
It's basically a DYEL guillotine (sort of based teebeehaitch)
https://www.wcax.com/2022/05/26/23-year-old-paramedic-dies-when-machine-falls-her-gym/
STLgays I applaud the smith machine for its service to the community
It’s all they have in terms of barbell type weights at my gym so meh