heavy on free weights or heavy on smith?

[Alvingreen]

Like what people said, if you wanna get big you gonna lift big, If im lifting heavy, must i go for free weights or smith machine? For example, bench press. I know free weights is good as in it trains your stabilising muscles, whereas smith machine targets on certain specific muscle parts. If Im lifting heav, on free weights, i wouldnt be balancing and doesnt it like gets your muscle out of symmetry? But smith machine will get the targeted muscles work, but it doesnt train your stabilising muscles, right? I need some opinion, free weights or smith for chest, why? Thanks

[Brozef]

Like what people said, if you wanna get big you gonna lift big, If im lifting heavy, must i go for free weights or smith machine? For example, bench press. I know free weights is good as in it trains your stabilising muscles, whereas smith machine targets on certain specific muscle parts. If Im lifting heav, on free weights, i wouldnt be balancing and doesnt it like gets your muscle out of symmetry? But smith machine will get the targeted muscles work, but it doesnt train your stabilising muscles, right? I need some opinion, free weights or smith for chest, why? Thanks

Free weights > Machines

Certain machines have their place (especially cable stations) but free weights are best. Range of motion, unhindered motion, need to stabilize etc.

[Nosepull]

Free weight if possible. The Smith machine is unnatural and even potentially dangerous for many lifts.

[napa1m]

Heavy on both

Although freeweight is usually better

Smith is perfectly fine too though

[ironwill2008]

Like what people said, if you wanna get big you gonna lift big, If im lifting heavy, must i go for free weights or smith machine? For example, bench press. I know free weights is good as in it trains your stabilising muscles, whereas smith machine targets on certain specific muscle parts. If Im lifting heav, on free weights, i wouldnt be balancing and doesnt it like gets your muscle out of symmetry? But smith machine will get the targeted muscles work, but it doesnt train your stabilising muscles, right? I need some opinion, free weights or smith for chest, why? Thanks

If you have to ask the question, just stick with free weights for now.

[Alvingreen]

If you have to ask the question, just stick with free weights for now.

But if i go heavy on free weights i wouldnt be able to balance well, and if i keep this up i might be sticking on the same weight

[oldballs]

Search for the 10 berzillion threads on this already.

[GeneralSerpant]

The conditions you're talking about aren't laws of resistance training.
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Heavy free-weights doesn't mean inherent lack of balance.

Marginal losses of weight or stability isn't a thin red line between winners and losers.

...Most important, bodybuilding doesn't entail making a commitment to either of these principals. It takes personal dedication and time to figure out which exercises you should be doing, and you don't decide beforehand that all or even majority of your exercises will be generally intensive, or constrictively tense.

[Gitt66]

"You can't re-rack life half-way though"

[Alvingreen]

The conditions you're talking about aren't laws of resistance training.
-------
Heavy free-weights doesn't mean inherent lack of balance.

Marginal losses of weight or stability isn't a thin red line between winners and losers.

...Most important, bodybuilding doesn't entail making a commitment to either of these principals. It takes personal dedication and time to figure out which exercises you should be doing, and you don't decide beforehand that all or even majority of your exercises will be generally intensive, or constrictively tense.

FOr example, chest press and incline chest press, what if I do both smith and free weights? And besides my workout program is one day one body part, so on a particular day I'll be hitting only chest.

[JOoa0ky]

IMO, high incline press and BTN press in smyth is phenomenal for shoulder development.

Also, if you've never tried somersaults in the smyth for quad sweep then you are by far missing out (:


Just saying that its not a waste of space as most are taught during their BB 're-education'.
Always keep an open mind to exercises.