Well everyone has their own opinion. I have mine and you have yours. That doesn't make me incorrect. Have you ever even tried to do it on a smith rack to even see what I'm talking about? Because one my gym resist you as you go up. Either way who fucking cares. It works and my 25" thighs and 18" calves don't lie. I'm sure what you do works for you and that's great. The question was raised about opinions on smith rack squats I gave my answer. The end ......
KRAZIEONE
I'm not expressing an opinion. I am stating facts. Standard squats are not even in the same universe as a smith squat at building mass. That's not opinion. That is the conclusion reached by every fucking professional bodybuilder to ever get somewhere in the sport. Professional bodybuilders do not skip squats. They might throw in some smith squats for variation, but the core of leg training revolved around the BB squat. They even call it the fucking BB squat.
See with a barbell plus weights there is no upward resistance except the weight. But w the smith rack you are fighting the weight plus the resistance of the cable mechanism
Okay. What the fuck are you talking about? What upward resistance? Do you mean gravity? When you lift free weights, you have to control 3 axises at once, x,y,and z. You have to fight gravity along with controlling 3 dimensions of space all at once. There is no harder fucking thing to do than to control a free weight. Smith machine exercises are not equal to free weights, and 315 on a smith is not 315 on a squat rack.
There is a reason that there are no smith machine power lifting events, and that reason is the smith machine is lame. Anybody who has accomplished anything knows it. You will never see Olympic smith machine lifts, because no body cares about people lifting in a smith machine. You are a moron, and I think you are a liar , too. I demand pictures of these massive legs you keep talking about, because I just don't believe you. After the stupid shit that I have heard you say, your credibility is suspect.
Ninja Edit: Oh, will you homos stop signing your fucking name. The internet has been around for a while, so there is no excuse to not understand how a message board works. Your name is next to your post, so signing it is redundant. It makes you look like you just learned about the internet 3 days ago.