16 WORTHLESS Gym Machines Making You SMALL (Use The Old School Version Instead)

16 WORTHLESS Gym Machines Making You SMALL (Use The Old School Version Instead) Sixteen gym machines are sitting exactly where a better old school exercise used to be — and nobody ever told you what got replaced. In this video we go through every one of them: the Smith machine, the chest press machine, the lat pulldown, the leg extension, the shoulder press machine, the seated row, the biceps curl machine, the pec deck, the leg curl, the ab crunch machine, the triceps pressdown, the reverse pec deck, the hack squat machine, the calf raise machine and the leg press — and the forgotten old school exercise that each one quietly pushed out of the gym. These are the free weight movements that built the thickest physiques of the Golden Era of bodybuilding: the free bar back squat, the wide parallel bar dip Vince Gironda taught his champions, the weighted chin-up, the cross-bench dumbbell pullover, the heavy bent-over barbell row, the standing barbell press, the stiff-legged deadlift, the original barbell hack squat and the donkey calf raise Arnold built his calves with. Old school bodybuilding was never about comfort. It was about giving the muscle a reason it could not ignore. If your training has stalled, your arms have stopped growing, or your chest and back look flat no matter how many machine sets you grind out, the problem may not be your effort — it may be that every hard movement in your program has been replaced by something easier. Machines are convenient. They are easy to learn, easy to load, easy to train alone on. But convenience is exactly why these brutally effective old school exercises disappeared from commercial gyms. In this old school bodybuilding breakdown you will learn what each classic exercise actually trained, why it vanished, the mistake modern lifters make with it today, and how to bring the principle back into your own workout safely. We cover training methods used by Reg Park, Steve Reeves, John Grimek, Vince Gironda, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Franco Columbu — including the twenty-rep breathing squat that built an entire mass-gaining movement around one barbell. Tell me in the comments which forgotten old school method you want investigated next. Disclaimer: This content is for entertainment and informational purposes only. Some details are based on historical accounts and narrative interpretation. Viewer discretion is advised. Media used complies with Section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Act (Fair Use) for commentary, criticism, education, and research. No copyright infringement intended.