How much does the smith machine bar weigh? I can't find it on google and need to right down my weight for something on there.
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Smith machine question
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Oh, I thought it was alot more, how come I bench so much less on a smith machine than regular bench?
it's individual, in the gym that i belong the smith is 30kg, but another gym that i worked the smith was 10kg.
The smith machine holds the bar in a groove so it is harder to move naturally finding tricky sticking points that you don't get with a free bar. Use a Free Barbell for pressing and incline pressing, you'll find the change alittle weird at first but that's just stabiliser muscles making up for the smith machine supporting bar and frame. They are kinda shit and you'll get better results for mass with a single free barbell pal.
I never used it before but I didn't have a spot because no one was in the gym at the timem and I was doing doggcrap method and I didn't want to get pinned.
My smith bar weighs 30 pounds.
I have always heard that it weighs 15.
it matters less how much the bar weighs, since it's on a pulley system thingy. there's resistance as you push it up that would add more weight to the actual bar. i treat smith's like any other machine. i realize the "weight" i'm using has no correlation to the weight i would use in a freeweight exercise. like a machine military press has any relation to bb military... yeah right.
they are not freeweights, but they have thier uses.
who cares what they weigh? if anyone asks you how much you smith bench, they are a weirdo.
they are not freeweights, but they have thier uses.
who cares what they weigh? if anyone asks you how much you smith bench, they are a weirdo.
i dont know, im too scared to max out 
