Smith machine: useful or useless?

Smith machine: useful or useless?

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This is how I get calf raises done. Otherwise fuck the thing.

Useful if you're by yourself and in a small space. That's it

>squatting at an angle

My buddy used to deadlift with a angled smith machine. Snapped his shit so hard he was fucked for months

actual poopie

Calf raises

I set the bar down low and use it as a brace when I do DB rows, so I guess it's kind of useful

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>my gym has no squat rack
>only a smith machine

how fucked am i?

I usually setup my deadlift facing the smith machine so I can stare at all the asses of the tight cardio mommies for extra gains.

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>be me
>Be in Japan for a year
>Gym doesn't have squat rack because Asians are terrified of freeweight squats
>Only a Smith machine or leverage squat machine.

Which should I use?

one way ticket to snap city

neither. do weighted pistols.

I use them for calf raises and for shrugs.

I have no other option at my gym other than these. Fuck planet fitness. The only other gym within 30min of driving doesn't even have weights, only cardio machines.

Useful for keeping the retards away from the squat rack (they only have one squat rack in my gym)

Shrugs, calf raises, sometimes shoulder press if my back is sore. Using them for the big 3 makes you a massive faggot

usefuk to keep the idiots away from the squat rack

Only a few uses
>inverted bw rows
>calf raises
>jury rig on one of the thin 20kg plates onto the bar, lock the safeties off, put a bench with plate on top under it, and load it up, to use as an impromptu guillotine
>russian dips
>maaaaaybe split squats and shrugs

i know your pain user, everybody hates me on leg days. But im one of the only guys there that trains legs anyways

The only thing this machine is good for is pullups. Fucking stupid piece of equipment.

Never ever fucking squat on a Smith machine. You will snap your shit.
The Smith is for calf raises and hip thrusts. And possibly some pin bench presses is you don't have a proper power cage.

I use it for behind the neck overhead pressing and JM presses
Issa good equipmernt,.

>behind the neck overhead pressing
Do you just want to die?

Split squats

Don't listen to the retards ITT OP, I had to use an apartment gym with only a smith machine for a year and made good progression on squats, you just have to be careful your form is good otherwise you'll be leaning back on the bar and doing it all wrong. When I got back to a proper gym I just deloaded 15kg to make sure I built up any stabilisers that were missing out and carried on progressing as per usual with free weights.