Image
extracted from the web: https://muyfitness.com
Did you know it with this name?
We are sure you did not. This usual gym
machine is traditionally known as “multipower”. It’s a structure that has a
fixed handrail with a plane of vertical slide on a few rails. This material is
mainly used in fitness and it’s rarely seen in the sport.
Image to Smith machine extracted
from de web: https://www.technogym.com/es/multipower-element-1.html
Nowadays, it’s a material very
criticized by the trainers since it encourages the imbalances of strength and
limiting the motion. This can be counter-productive for prevent the natural
movements of the proper human body. The majority of trainers agree that the
Smith machine isn’t a real movement. Thus, for example, exercises like squat,
bench press or shoulder press could be advised against.
Now, it’s necessary to stop using
this machine?
The answer is NO. There exist
many exercises that we can do without putting in risk our health. As example,
we are going to put 2 exercises:
- Inclined
push-upà The
Smith machine can help us to make push-ups when we still can’t make them on the
floor. Due to the fact that we can place the handrail to different levels. We
will start at high levels and we will go down little by little until we can
make them on the floor.
- Inverted
row à
This exercise is for more trained persons. We can place the fixed handrail at
the height of the hip. After, we will hang ourselves of the handrail and we
will do bench approximations.
Where can we get the Smith
machine?
There are different pages, on the
Internet, which offer the Smith machine’s. Also, they have different prices
which are in relation with the material and the quality. One of this page is
Fitness Digital. Here we can find a Smith machine with this properties:
- Measurements:
o
Large
114cm
o
Width
193cm
o
High
203cm
- Weight 76kg
The price of this material is
499€. It is an average model, so we can find that the prices range between
250€-1000€
Post done and edited by
Adrián
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