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Old 07-05-2008, 01:56 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Re: Smiths machine
Good advice for a 16 year old nathan.

Drop the smith, you need to stabilise your shoulder first. If you carry on using the smith you will strengthen your chest and front delts. Sooner or later you will experience an imbalance between your ability to bench and your ability to hold/stabilise the weight you are benching, this will spill over into real life activity/playing sport/digging the garden etc and your likely to cause further injury. You will also be pushing more with your strong/none injured side even though you dont realise it.

IMO the only thing the smith is good for is raccking to the top and using it as a chin up bar.
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