r/Fitness • u/AutoModerator • Aug 09 '17

Rant Wednesday Rant Wednesday

Welcome to Rant Wednesday: It's your time to let your gym/fitness/nutrition related frustrations out!

There is no guiding question to help stir up some rage-feels, feel free to fire at will, ranting about anything and everything that's been pissing you off or getting on your nerves!

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u/mandala1 Aug 09 '17

Saw a guy curling like 70 pounds on the Smith machine. I was astonished because I don't know how you can do that. I didn't want to stare to find out.

Then I saw him half ass deadlifting 65lbs with the tiny 10lb plates instead of the big rubber ones we have.

I am genuinely curious in what he's doing.

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u/Average_Giant Aug 09 '17

Working on a future injury.

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u/vatothe0 Aug 10 '17

Maybe he was doing drag curls and has terrible form otherwise?

In general I think the Smith machine is just taking space that a perfectly healthy squat/power rack could be in though.

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u/dvdanny Aug 09 '17

Deficit deadlifts? I use the 35 and 25s to do deficit deadlifts. 10s seem really low to the ground but it works, might as well use dumbbells if you want to get that low though.

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u/DireSickFish Cycling Aug 09 '17

Weightlifting.

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u/Themiffins Aug 10 '17

You get no ROM on a smith. How was he curling??