Smith Machine

>>39930244
le bumpo

>>39930244
pls

you still made gains using the smith machine, but be forewarned that you are going to be lifting significantly less using free weights. there's no real conversion or ratio, but start really light so you don't get plastered or snap your shit up.

>>39930409
Will do. Thanks anon

>>39930244
Range of motion is limited for bench on the smith machine. Your bench might even go up. Good riddance to bad gyms.

>>39930244
The smith press is lifting weights on the fucking moon. It's also the light house of the gym guiding retards to it's harbor safely to do stupid shit. Use dumbbells instead of this garbage, if they don't have dumbbells just go fucking do cardio.

>>39930244
You can use the same amount of weight on both dont worry man
2pl8 on smith= 225 on bench

>>39930244
its good for exercises with relatively linear movements like calf raises and shrugs.

otherwise its almost completely inferior to free weights unless you're doing a relatively risky exercise.

>>39930244
the smith machine at the gym i go to doesn't have a counter weight and is just for a protection of sorts for people who don't want to crush themselves. pretty nice when i first started because form was fucked.

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>>39931242
I'm sure you had excellent form after practicing on a smith machine. We all know it perfectly emulates the natural path of a barbell for a squat, bench, or pretty much any exercise you can do on it.