Life Exercise junkies beware. - Page 5

Silock · 04-11-2011, 11:21 AM

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Originally Posted by BIG_DADDY

It's that whole locked in thing. Free weights are better from a variety of standpoints.

110% agreement there.

Just saying that lots of people **** up their shoulders doing BB bench press, but they do it with bad form (elbows flared out, too high up on the chest, etc.) and then blame the exercise instead of their bad form.

BIG_DADDY · 04-11-2011, 02:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Silock

110% agreement there.

Just saying that lots of people **** up their shoulders doing BB bench press, but they do it with bad form (elbows flared out, too high up on the chest, etc.) and then blame the exercise instead of their bad form.

Very true. You will still lift longer if you use dumbbells primarily.

NewChief · 04-11-2011, 10:03 AM

What is the term for a Smith machine that actually allows horizontal range of motion as well? My gym has a smith machine, but it also has a machine where the bar can move on axes both horizontal and perpendicular to the floor.

Brock · 04-11-2011, 11:00 AM

Mostly, all machines do is take up space that could be better put to use with more benches and dumbbells. I think what they're saying about leg extensions is a crock though. Extending the leg isn't a natural motion? BS.

Silock · 04-11-2011, 11:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Brock

Mostly, all machines do is take up space that could be better put to use with more benches and dumbbells. I think what they're saying about leg extensions is a crock though. Extending the leg isn't a natural motion? BS.

Not with a shitload of weight it isn't.

Brock · 04-11-2011, 12:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Silock

Not with a shitload of weight it isn't.

Any exercise with too much weight is a bad idea.

Silock · 04-11-2011, 01:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Brock

Any exercise with too much weight is a bad idea.

Sure, but you aren't going to get much out of a leg extension without using a lot of weight. We can agree that there are certain exercises which are inherently more dangerous, can't we?

Brock · 04-11-2011, 01:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Silock

Sure, but you aren't going to get much out of a leg extension without using a lot of weight. We can agree that there are certain exercises which are inherently more dangerous, can't we?

LOL. You know as well as anyone that the number of people injured by squats is probably 1000 times that of the people injured by doing LEs.

jiveturkey · 04-11-2011, 12:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Brock

Mostly, all machines do is take up space that could be better put to use with more benches and dumbbells. I think what they're saying about leg extensions is a crock though. Extending the leg isn't a natural motion? BS.

I've always been told to avoid that exercise. With any weight it supposedly causes your knee cap to track improperly.

You use the same muscles when you squat anyway.

BigCatDaddy · 04-11-2011, 11:15 AM

My worst injury was a damn strained tendon from locking out on barbell curls. Now I'm a member of the not locking out club.

ModSocks · 04-11-2011, 11:22 AM

This is a conspiracy. I've known this shit for years. They create these exercise machines that dont really work so people can get discouraged and then plug themselves back into the TV. They dont want a healthy America. They want a fat and lazy America. You're easier to control that way. And most Americans have no problem being fat and lazy. It's becoming culturaly accepted.

This is exactly what CBS & Fox want. To keep you tuned in and oblivous to what the Government is doing right in front of your eyes.

**Renegade** · 04-11-2011, 12:11 PM

Wow 2 pages, and not one comment on the women in pictures 1,4, and 6. This place has lost its burst.

BigCatDaddy · 04-11-2011, 12:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Renegade

Wow 2 pages, and not one comment on the women in pictures 1,4, and 6. This place has lost its burst.

6 does give me a really good idea

BigCatDaddy · 04-11-2011, 12:16 PM

The dude that won MR Kansas 2009 overall trains at my gym and pretty much all I see him do for legs are front squats on the Smith Machine...... for about 1/2 hour..

Silock · 04-11-2011, 01:58 PM

Maybe -- it's hard to gauge because one is a repetitive stress type of danger and the other is bad form danger. But that's not because the squat is inherently dangerous. It's because people are reeruned and don't bother to learn the proper form, or let their egos get in the way.

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