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Heavy well executed Squats FTW!!!!
the guy didnt squat below parallel and used a smith machine to bench
if i remember correctly we had people saying smithy is useless and ATG is the only way?
:footmouth:
but I know that if a guy Squats like that and does that kind of lunges.. he surely Benches free-weight..
Ther chad moment?
the guy didnt squat below parallel and used a smith machine to bench
if i remember correctly we had people saying smithy is useless and ATG is the only way?
:footmouth:
He was hitting parallel for most of his sets, just not in the second vid on his heaviest set, where he only hit half of them. Pretty decent considering the heel raising he insists on using.
Your memory is flawed.
ATG is a better squat, I've never said that it is the only way.
Smith machine is a crap piece of equipment. That doesn't preclude people from using it.
How is it a piece of crap? i love doing them. I don't treat it like a regular squat though. Sometimes i do them after squats to try to isolate and focus on my quads.
it allows me to ballance in a way where i focus on quads and less on glutes and hams. kinda like this.... its a bit exaggerated but you get the point....
The smith machine locks you into a predetermined plane of motion that isn't suited to your body. It creates more shear forces at the various joints involved (I posted a paper on this, although it lacked a measurement at the lower back). It doesn't require you to balance the weight which creates even more force transferance issues (e.g. co-conctraction of the hammys are needed to keep the knee from being pulled apart). Add to these simple points, of the many, is the point that a lift performed in a smith is often counterbalanced so that you don't actually lift the weight in a manner that effectively recruits the muscles.
You'd be better off doing a single leg leg press.
He needs to get on board with Hany, take a year off and blow away the competition in 2011.