you've missed his point completely and are just looking for the answers you WANT to hear. wake up man. you can't do whatever workout for a muscle you feel like and get the results you want simply cause it works for one person. you need to re-read these threads man, cause you apparently missed a lot.Originally Posted by Undecided09
how you "feel" from a workout means nothing. you have to keep track on a week to week basis of your weight, bf%, measurements, etc, to see specifically what kind of results your getting and where. wishful thinking isn't going to change what works for you and what won't, that's already been decided when you were born (aka genetics).
both me and swole get the best results from our legs doing completely different kinds of training, yet we're both knowledgeable enough to know what works best for us. that right there clearly indicates that different people need different kinds of training depending on their genetic predisposition to muscle compostion, which is either more fast or slow twitch muscle fibers. you seem to have overlooked that.
if you've already made up your mind that you're going to stick with smith squats, which it seems you have, then why start this thread? with so much info contraindicating you just sticking with the smith, it certainly seems as if you had already made up your mind long before making this thread? no offense to swole at all, but other than him and a select couple other people, most people have encouraged you to the free weights for numerous reasons, and swole at least has a very good reason as to why he chooses the smith.
the exercises that work best for people aren't usually the ones you like the most, but the ones you dread the most. if you really don't like doing an exercise, those are usually the ones that your body will adapt most effectively to in order to try to overcome that pain you feel from it. have you ever considered you like the smith more because it isn't as strenuous on your cns, so your subconscious is simply trying to convince your conscious to do the easier one?
you need to re-read my explanation of genetic predisposition to fast and slow twitch muscle fibers and how it affects a muscles adaptation to training again as well, cause that right there will have your answers as for what kind of reps will work for you and why it's not nearly as simple as you want it to be. as far as the exercise, if you truly feel it works better, keep track of your measurements and progress and use that as your guide to what works and what doesn't, not your "feeling" of something just being better.
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