I was just wondering, does doing “rack squats” ( the squats where the bar is attached to the cage, and you can squat with it, without worrying about leaning forward, not the smith machine) have the same benefits as doing regular barbell squats?? reason I’m asking is because today I was doing 2 plate squats and I was slightly leaning forward when squatting back up, after I finished my sets, these guys I know started telling me to do squats on the rack, since you can do more weight with it and it isolates the legs more. They said it’s just as good as doing regular squats. What do you think??
Any time you use the smith machine to do squats or anything for that matter, you’re using a fixed, predetermined range of motion…which isn’t natural. A lot of people recommend against using the smith machine for that very reason.
I think he said it is NOT the smith machine that he is referring to.
Oh…I’m not aware of a rack where “the bar is attached to the cage, and you can squat with it, without worrying about leaning forward” other than the smith machine.
I must have selective reading…anyway, you got a picture of this rack?
absolutely no idea what device he might be talking about if its not a Smith machine
Yea I’d like to see a picture of that too. But in the mean time, don’t listen to them. Do real Squats.
I’m talking the rack that looks like a cage, where the bar is attached to the sides, it looks like the smith machine, except the bar doesn’t move straight up and down, it moves more as an arc. I’ll get a picture up soon.
I think you mean the Natural Smith Machine.
It still doesn’t work as well as a squat although it is better than the original Smith machine.
The thing about squats is that in order to remain upright you need to use your back and core. You lose that benifit once you go to a machine of any type.
Stu
[quote]NeedforStrength wrote:
I’m talking the rack that looks like a cage, where the bar is attached to the sides, it looks like the smith machine, except the bar doesn’t move straight up and down, it moves more as an arc. I’ll get a picture up soon.[/quote]
By that description I have never seen that machine before. Does it look anything like the above picture? That is a squat machine.
yeah stuward that’s the one i’m talking about