< span style="font-size: 14px;">Comrades! No more Smith machines!
The equipment in the gym will affect the people who train here. Suitable equipment will bring you good training results, and may also affect your knowledge behind the training, and even Stimulate your thirst for knowledge and strive for excellence.
In contrast, inappropriate equipment may limit your development, narrow your vision, and be blinded by the illusion of safety design. The most obvious example is the "Smith Machine".
The invention of the Smith Machine allows those who have never done weight training to feel safe and comfortable during use, but this is not the same as real barbell training.
Features: The tracks on the left and right sides of the Smith machine are designed to fix the moving direction of the bar. The bar will not tilt forward or backward, and of course it will not. Skewed left and right.
The only direction you can move when operating a Smith machine is up and down. This design only gives you an illusion of safety, but in fact it has many disadvantages
The first thing to emphasize is: Shi MiThe machine is not real weightlifting. Real weightlifting is to use the strength of the body to support the barbell, rather than relying on the machine to stabilize the weight.
For free weight barbell squats, you must use 100% of your own strength to support the barbell on your body, and overcome the stability control of leaning forward, backward, and shaking left and right during the movement. This is This is the real role of core muscles
In such free weight training, you will recruit more muscle groups than using the Smith machine, which means you will also burn more calories, regardless of your Whether the purpose is to lose fat, gain muscle, maintain physical fitness, or improve athlete performance, you should not let machines take away your original abilities or replace the results you want to train.
According to research, Compared to free weight barbell squats, using the Smith machine will replace 33% of your strength (because of its stable track design). As for the 3D Smith machine What? Although it has additional tracks for forward and backward movement, the left and right sides are still restricted, so it is not a good choice.
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