Fitness

A place to talk about fitness and health on Farcaster.

I enjoy smith machine squats a lot more than barbell (mainly bc easier to have good form and hit ass to grass). 

Any downsides to not doing barbell?

As long as I’m lifting heavy and pushing, shouldn’t matter too much right?

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You muscles don't know whether it's a barbell, machine, or cable, or whatever...

I don't believe there is any downside if you have a good exercise variety and are pushing hard.

The 'cult-of-barbell' really has its hooks in people. I dare people to do a deep quad focused knee flexion on smith machine. It's hard as fuck. The idea that machines are "easier" is just idiotic.

A few thoughts from reading the comments here

There's no such things as "stabilizer muscles".

Different muscles (eg core) are recruited in bb lifts, but you can grow those muscles w/out bb

People do bb lifts to get strong on bb lifts. BBs are not needed whatsoever to build muscle (chest, shoulder, tri, bi, etc...)