Prisoner at War wrote:
On Feb 4, 7:28 pm, spodosaurus <spodosaurus@_yahoo_.com> wrote:
So gravity takes a holiday when using the machine's weight stack. Uh huh.
Sigh...there is *less* of a downward gravitational effect pushing
something horizontally than pushing it vertically.
The weight stack is vertical.
Moreover, "it's
all you" in a free-weight barbell flat bench press, whereas it's
partly the machine (actually holding the weight for you) with one of
these seated chest presses.
See my other post.
In terms of absolute poundage, you'll always surpass your free-weight
barbell flat bench press 1RM on one of these machines...by far:
No *****, sherlock. I said this days ago in this thread:
"Spend six months working on a chest press machine. Get up to a maximum.
Then see if you can come anywhere near that on a barbell bench press."
though
I can do 405-lbs. using one of those machines, my real 1RM is only 335-
lbs.
Machines, by definition, make life easier.
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