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Feeling It In The Wrong Muscle

  • 05-04-2012 9:40pm
    #1
    busyliving
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,428 ✭✭✭


    Hey all,

    Was doing a session in the gym today, and for what ever reason I was just feeling it in the wrong muscle...

    Like I was doing my Chest, started with fly's and was feeling it in my arms more than usual, still feeling it in my chest. Its never happened like it did today for me...

    Can anyone suggest what this may be due to?

    Also can anyone suggest on to get the correct bench position on a Smith Machine as my gym have gotten rid of the "free weight" bench press so all I have available to me is a smith machine:(

    Cheers again


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  • #2
    Hanley
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21,981 ✭✭✭✭Hanley


    Bench position, where you're lowering the bar to, grip width, elbow position on the way down...

    Could be many a thing.


  • #3
    Mellor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 39,902 ✭✭✭✭Mellor


    If free bench is gone then I rather switch to Dunbell bench over smith machine


  • #4
    Sephiroth_dude
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 81,083 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sephiroth_dude


    Mellor wrote: »
    If free bench is gone then I rather switch to Dunbell bench over smith machine

    really?would you mind explaining why?


  • #5
    arse..biscuits
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,878 ✭✭✭arse..biscuits


    Sounds like you need to switch gyms


  • #6
    Mellor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 39,902 ✭✭✭✭Mellor


    Sephiroth_dude wrote: »
    Mellor wrote: »
    If free bench is gone then I rather switch to Dunbell bench over smith machine

    really?would you mind explaining why?
    Free weight benching isnt a straight oath, so the smith doesn't replicate it. That, plus the fact that you don't have to stabilise as much


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  • #7
    Dermighty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,748 ✭✭✭Dermighty


    Mellor wrote: »
    Free weight benching isnt a straight oath, so the smith doesn't replicate it. That, plus the fact that you don't have to stabilise as much

    I think Mellor means free weight bench (aka barbell bench) isn't a straight path of movement, the smith machine is (though somewhat angled) so the smith machine doesn't replicate what a barbell does. You would probably be able to do a much heavier weight on the smith machine, as the rails provide a great deal of stability to the lift.


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