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The Smith Machine Is Sometimes Better Than The Squat Rack
The smith machine is a machine version of the free weight squat rack. This machine gets a lot of hate, but also has some surprising advantages. Like any tool in the toolkit of a good exerciser, the smith machine shouldn’t be ignored.