Too many people have died this way. Stop the madness!Originally Posted by Kevin99
On a serious note, the only use I can think for the Sally Machine, is to use it on a vessel, or a submarine.
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I introduce all my clients and gym members I give routines to, to the Smith machine. I always say the following.
"This is called the Smith machine. The bar rolls out and can be moved up and down like this. People use it for squatting, bench pressing, and overhead presses, which is an excellent way to fuck your joints and keep you weak, so I don't recommend it. However, if you aren't yet strong enough to do full pushups and chinups, it's excellent as an adjustable bar for that."
I use it as a regression for the pushup, and various kinds of inverted rows. It's also important that I mock it harshly the first time they see it, in case one day they're on their own in the gym without me to tell them what to do and get some funny ideas.
Leonidas
Too many people have died this way. Stop the madness!
On a serious note, the only use I can think for the Sally Machine, is to use it on a vessel, or a submarine.
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How do you plan on doing those 540 lbs 1/8 squats without a good smith machine?
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they are more dangerous than a barbell for benching, you could still crush yourself with a smith machine but wouldnt have the ability to roll or tip it off you like you can a barbell, you can hang coats on them though.
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OP, you just started this thread because you wanted everyone to dis the Smith and have some laughs right? I see no other plausible explanation. Do you also wonder about all the wonderful Nautilus machines in the gym?
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Legal liability reasons: If some fool dies/becomes injured doing bench presses with a suicide grip or befalls some other calamity while lifting weights, the presence of a Smith machine gives the gym owner a viable defense, namely that the fool could have been using a much "safer" machine to do the same exercise. For this reason, I would recommend to any gym (inc. WFAC) that a Smith machone be acquired, since they have become de rigeur in the modern Amercian gym, people are familiar with them and they expect to see them. We all know the Smith machine is dangerous to the joints, but the legal defense to the lawsuit is not based on any real saferty, but the paper perception of safety. If there is a Smith machine at the gym, the injured fools lawyer cannot argue that the gym patron had no safer alternative to bench presses, squats, whatever. So, long story short, Rip should buy one.
TMPHBITEU
No, but I appreciate your reasoning.
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I don't remember when or where, but I saw your liability release form, and it seemed pretty fucking iron clad.
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Where, pray tell, do you think there's room for this useless device on a submarine? (Other than the Reactor Compartment, and I don't recommend that... although Rip might like that as punishment for use). We pack too much other stuff in those little tubes for that thing. Even on missile boats. Silly.
TMPHBITEU
You're a sub service guy? That explains some things.
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