Whats Wrong With Using The Smith Machine For Squats?
Is there a problem with squatting with a Smith Machine and if so how can I solve it or compensate for it? View The Smith Machine Squat The Smith Machine has been one of the biggest mistakes in strength training equipment, in my opinion. This may sound like an extreme comment to make considering almost every gym and even some rehabilitation facilities now have them for their people to use. Please let me elaborate before you stop reading. My biggest problem with the Smith Machine is that people are convinced they are still doing free weight movements when they perform exercises on the Smith Machine. Because an Olympic bar is attatched to the machine does not make this a free weight piece. The reason is this piece only allows movement in a fixed plane of motion. This is one of the many disadvantages of machines that Coach Snideman has stated in his article, Free Weights vs. Machines. In any movement that a human performs, almost never are the same muscles or patterns of movement replicate
