How are we feeling about doing bench press variations on a Smith Machine? It always felt wonky and gay to me to use it but see so many people lately shill it. My gym doesn't always have the bench with the safeties available for pushing PRs on bench so I was thinking if it's actually a good substitution to do Smith Machine presses when you have no spotted or if it's actually a meme.
>>75382252Could work, but I mostly view it as a waste of time. If the safeties aren't available, do cable flyes or something else while you wait.
>>75382252Works enough just don't go to heavy since you won't have full shoulder mobility. You can still get a decent workout with high enough reps.
If you want hypertrophy, you use the smith to ignore your stabilizers and build your chest.If you want strength, you do free to use more muscles to cheat for pointless PRs, and you stop posting on /fit/ except in the powershitters general, to stop spreading egotistical pointless worthless lifting ignorance on the board.
>>75382252It's okay for guillotine press as that motion is designed to be vertical. Standard BP is not good for that as you do not want the bar to move vertically.
I’ve made better progress using the smith machine in six months than I did in years using free weights. Anti smith machine is all fattie powershitter cope and general ego lifting retards.
>>75382252You could ask someone to spot you or dump the weight.
>>75383222>If you want hypertrophy, you use the smith to ignore your stabilizers and build your chest.lol, bench does not build chest lol, it only fucks it up along shoulders: >75383901>75383909
>>75383981>>75383901>>75383909now it will work
>>75382252Here is a crazy concept. You can do both. You can start with bench and move on to smith just to nuke the hell out of your chest and tris after fatigue starts to limit regular bench.
>>75383222>smith machine if you want to look like you lift weights (i wear a wig, own a penis pump and take steroids btw)>free bar if you actually want to lift weightsgot it, thank you
>>75383984>>75384030no, it's neither, it's the exact same movement, and it doesn't do any good to pecs anyways: >>75383982
>>75384037no-one cares about any of the bullshit you type
