"if you're on the smith machine, you can re-rack at anytime, thats not how life works, you cant just re-rack life halfway through" fucking wisdom right here
@@Rspsand07 I've been there once but thankfully I naturally have big legs so I was able to save my balls I also learnt early on when I was lifting lighter weights. If you are going to fuck up and learn its best to do it early on with lighter weights.
Smith Machine is the greatest invention since those things on the end of your shoelaces. I bench solid 65lb with the Smith, so i know what i'm talking about.
Saddest day of my life: First time I ever set foot in a gym, I’d heard so much “never skip leg day” that my instinct was to find a place to squat. All the cages were being used except one, which had a weird ladder looking set of hooks and pipes up and down the sides. I was like I guess this one is me. I’m now proud to say that I’ve been 72 months sober of the smith machine. If you’re struggling out there, I’ve been there. You’re clueless, ask a real gym bro for help, and he’ll at least show you what you’re doing wrong
I wouldn't use one all the time, but they are very useful for progressive overload. Take away stabilization, now you can exert more force. There is a reason body builders use so many machines including the smith. It depends on your goals. Do you want to wear a onesie and impress dudes with 1 rep maxes, or do you want to get jacked? Up to you.
Is anyone going to notice at the end of the video that he perfectly placed the plates on the racks to actually make it look like he was driving a truck 😂
I've never used the Smith machine for anything besides squats. I was in several car accidents when I was younger that left me with knee injuries, so I will agree with Dom it was like my training wheels until I felt confident enough to take the training wheels off.
This ended up being exactly what I wanted. ru-vid.comUgkxP26Tir6n60vUkdtn4mbwhRO8cwuJQNy2 I get the flexibility of multiple dumbbells without taking up the space of a whole set. I have a very small spare room that these and a bench fit perfectly into. Like others mentioned the size of these are a little bigger/longer than traditional weights so they aren’t the perfect solution for everyone. However, if you're looking for a flexible and space saving design for a home workout I’d recommend these.
One real and maybe the only good thing about the smith machine is that a guy at our gym with one arm can do bench presses like that :) though it hurts to watch it when his bone is pretty much pushing it up (with foams).. nice determination!
I can't believe I got the beginning right xD. after reading the title I just thought to myself "you don't" few seconds later that's exactly what I hear!
I since the day this video came out, I have practiced sloth hanging. I have reached the record of 35 minutes while holding conversation, but I just get bored eventually. It's a mental thing, not physical at this point
I feel like Dom was the funny ADHD kid that got into weight lifting while in high school just like everyone else, but instead kept doing it because realistically it’s the only thing he can focus on while not getting bored.
You should see the outrage people had when they found out Dom is a written character. What makes his videos even funnier is the people he's making fun of don't know he's not being serious.
The main point of the video is true though, the smith machine is garbage. It doesn't strenghten your stabilizing muscles and it hurts your joints in the long run.
woodlefoof2 no i mean like laugh out loud at them. i usually just do the little breathing motion type of laugh lol but this one had me actually laughing.
Funny video. But having started training at 42, the Smith machine is making wonders for me and my shoulders. I started six months ago doing very easy versions of australian pull ups hanging from, and push ups on top of the bar. I have been lowering the bar progressively and now I am quite close to horizontal. Yes, a strong young guy should go directly to the squat rack instead of the Smith, but there are other gym clients with very different needs. I do my squats with free weights, but for other purposes the Smith machine is great, I love it.
I used to be a gym roid rat! Years ago! Now i have a dad bod ;( i used to eat 2 breakfast, 2 lunches, 2 dinners and drink 3- 1000 calorie protein shakes. Be careful loading on calories (i loaded the wrong ones trans fat because i had a hard time gaining weight). Hence Heart Attack at 42...love the vids and watch Trans fat intake!!!!
There is nobody on this earth stupider than I am. This one time when I was working out with a friend at the gym we both were doing our own thing. He went and worked out on the free weights and I went on the smith machine to bench (I had no spotter because he was on free weights.) So I'm loading up my weight onto the the Smith Machine (about 40kg and yes I was a beginner) and I hop under it and unhook the bar and bring the bar down to my chest and too my horror I could not bring it back up...yep I was stuck. Here I am this 16yr old guy pinned down by 40kgs on the Smith Machine. Not only did I have to wait for my friend to walk past to ask him to get it off me I had lay there whist people would just give me strange looks. This is why I am the stupidest person ever.
Funny... I wasn't really making fun of the guy. I just didn't know what to do. Whether to tell him it would be better if he did it with an actual barbell and bench, or just to keep quiet and help him. I went with the latter.
+itsburntm16 lol y'all are ego pussies I use the Smith machine all the time and I can get 3 plates 10 x 10 on a regular bench and I'll atillbfuck your shit up by using Smith machines all year
Some soldiers actually moved the smith machine from the free weight area to the cardio room and wrote "Use while ovulating only" on it hahaha was pretty funny, just another day in the infantry
I finally witnessed proper use of the smith machine at my local gym. A guy in a wheelchair rolled up to the smith machine, strapped himself to the chair with a lifting belt and then asked me to boost him up to the bar and proceeded to do weighted pull-ups with the weight being his damn wheelchair. Gotta love that shit.
Not like this though. This isn't riding a pony this is like riding your cousin: it's disgusting and nobody should do it. Doing it doesn't make you look any cooler
+iusemylaptop Unacceptable! Skipping workouts is like skipping a workday w/o calling off. That's gain suicide. Get your ass back in the gym before Brojesus smites you down for your blasphemous actions. You're like the Judas of the weightlifting community right now. How do you feel!
+iusemylaptop Unacceptable! Skipping workouts is like skipping a workday w/o calling off. That's gain suicide. Get your ass back in the gym before Brojesus smites you down for your blasphemous actions. You're like the Judas of the weightlifting community right now. How do you feel!
I get that this is a joke and a good one at that. Still, the only major injury I've ever had was using the Smith machine. I have yet to see one exercise that is more beneficial to do with this machine. It creates the illusion of safety while in actuality forces the user into unnatural ranges of motion and places stressors in more dangerous places like the knees. I also learned the hard way that with high plates it can be very hard to get to get the machine to catch when you really need to. I'll take a Power Rack any day or nothing at all rather than use the Smith machine. I used it a little with light weights to get back into moderate squat form when a local gym didn't have a squat rack, but that is the most use it will ever get from me. I guess maybe I am a little bit more "bro" than I thought.
I started lifting 10 years ago and this is the first video I have ever seen in your channel, and I'm hooked ever since. I was a skinny-fat noob who used to squat and bench press in the smith machine, but your video gave me a great laugh and educated me to workout in a better way. All of your videos are top quality in both comedy and actual bro science. Thank you for the gains you gave us and for the laughs that helped us to be consistent with the gym.
There used to be a dude who was well into his 70s that did heavy squats in the Smith machine, said it was just safer at his age. So, the Smith machine has its place, just like anything else.
First issue is just weird, getting balance with squats is one of the most valuable parts of the excercise, if it feels to dangerous he can just ligten the weights but still remain in a natural range of motion (unlike on the smith machine). Second issue doesn't make sense either. If you have a squat rack or power rack in your gym (which you should) you can just put the pins at a point slightly below your max depth, so you can drop the weight safely when you fail a rep ^^
Eric McBride Completely agree with you. Great ROM, great stability, the perfect environment for the calves in the gym at least. They can be built really well on the field though with plyos and sprints.
I remember when I went to a gym in North Shields called Xercise4less. I will never forget this guy who benched up on a Smith machine, sat and did one arm seated shoulder press with 10kg plates on either side. Whilst also grabbing the Smith support with the other hand. This guy was also heavily tattoo'd. Average height but for some reason he though he was around 6ft 8 and a hybrid human. He also proceed to do this in front of the 12 - 22kg dumbell stack. I never laughed so much in my life.
@1:50 "...this could be used for a curl station; a.k.a., a squat rack". That had me rolling because barely anyone at my gym uses the squat rack for squats.
Yes it's completely fine to use it for calf raises, and shrugs too. Just, stuff like deadlifts or squatting is not a good idea on a smith machine because it doesn't allow for range of movement and thus promotes poor form.
NOBODY CAN SATISFY ME LIKE DADDY USED TO Funny is subjective. So I believe a more accurate version of your comment would be "It's not funny to me at all." Which is irrelevant anyway. Because obviously the people who do like the saying would buy it, not those who don't.
I use smith machine for calves, narrow stance squats, Australian pull-ups, shrugs and sometimes for benching and over head presses when i feel pain in my shoulders
