Weighted dips v Smith machine bench press

**TheRuss** · Posted On: 12/14/2008 12:02pm

Originally Posted by mjgb61

It's laughable really because I haven't even got a lot to lose: I've never quite reached the 300lb where manliness begins so I should just bite the bullet and leave them out for a few weeks.

Originally Posted by Emevas

Besides, if you think about it, the smith machine bench press isn't a bench press, it's a smith machine bench press. They're two different movements, that train the body in different ways.

To amplify this, I want to stress that there's nothing manly about a Smith machine bench press.

**Emevas** · Posted On: 12/14/2008 12:10pm

Russ is proof that some posters should be allowed to be repped an unlimited amount of times.

**mjgb61** · Posted On: 12/14/2008 12:30pm

Originally Posted by H TO THE IZZO

To amplify this, I want to stress that there's nothing manly about a Smith machine bench press.

You'll get no argument from me there; I'd never do them if there was a free weight alternative which is why I'm asking about dips. My almost-manly-not-quite-300lbs was done using an olympic bar.

**SFGOON** · Posted On: 12/14/2008 1:32pm

Originally Posted by Emevas

Srsly guys, it's just strength.

Wrong, turd!

The muscles don't know much difference, but the motor cortex of your brain sure as **** does! No point in driving a race car if there's an idiot at the wheel, which is exactly what you get if you're isolating muscles. :wbaba2

Don't you have some atom bombs to go stand in front of, and maybe a painted line to get all pissy about?

You know what I mean...

**TheRuss** · Posted On: 12/14/2008 1:44pm

:psyduck:

**Emevas** · Posted On: 12/14/2008 2:02pm

Originally Posted by SFGOON

Wrong, turd!

The muscles don't know much difference, but the motor cortex of your brain sure as **** does! No point in driving a race car if there's an idiot at the wheel, which is exactly what you get if you're isolating muscles. :wbaba2

Don't you have some atom bombs to go stand in front of, and maybe a painted line to get all pissy about?

You know what I mean...

Who is talking about isolating muscles? And why would you isolate muscles for strength training?

**Jack Rusher** · Posted On: 12/14/2008 7:52pm

Originally Posted by H TO THE IZZO

To amplify this, I want to stress that there's nothing manly about a Smith machine bench press.

++. The only use I've ever found for that thing was squatting under it when my shoulder was too injured to hold a proper bar in place, and even that sucked.

Originally Posted by Emevas

And why would you isolate muscles for strength training?

And why haven't we moved on to a discussion of the extreme cuteness of Em's dog in his video?

**Emevas** · Posted On: 12/14/2008 7:58pm

My dog is fucking awesome. Except now that my work has picked up, he's trying to become the dominant male in the house. He pees on everything I own and keeps humping my wife.

I've gotten him back though. I peed on everything he owns, and humped my wife too.

He knows who the alpha is.

**BudoMonkey** · Posted On: 12/14/2008 8:34pm

I tried to bench press 315 today. Some of these big guy's I pal around with at the gym were all like, 'cmon bro, we'll catch it. we're here to spot you, give it a shot', when one of them was already benching it.

**** that. I couldn't even get it off the hooks. It'll be a new personal goal from now on, that's fer sure.

It's a good thing you're not severly dyslexic, Em, or you might have ended up peeing on your wife and humping your dog. That would've just left them confused, but actually, I guess, you'd still be the aplha in that situation.

I say, if you have any more trouble give it a shot.

**Kentucky Fried Chokin** · Posted On: 12/14/2008 8:36pm

Everything I wanted to say about dips has already been said, so:

Originally Posted by Black Midget Hitler Santa

It's a good thing you're not severly dyslexic, Em, or you might have ended up peeing on your wife and humping your dog. That would've just left them confused, but actually, I guess, you'd still be the aplhaFoxtrot in that situation.

Fixed, because I'm a dick.