Last night I received a text from my workout partner, "We're going to go heavy on squats". I was pumped, but then I thought I remember something about him saying he wanted to do squats on the smith machine this week. In denial, I still asked him if we were going to do free or smith, of course his answer was smith machine and smith machine it was. We went up to five plates on each side which on the smith machine is still heavy but definitely not as heavy if you were doing free, which demands more work from the muscles to stabilize the weight. I have never been a fan of smith machine. The smith machine keeps you fixed in one spot, it applies the worse pressure to my tendons, resulting in inflammation which hinders me from the rest of my workout. The five plates were easy for my muscles but painful to my tendons. I just prefer doing all of my squat work free style, no fixed position, no momentum, just me and the load on my traps. My planned workout that I've been envisioning for the past two days took a drastic one-eighty, so I just had to improvise. By improvising, I just went light on hacks, just enough weight to keep the blood pumping, and the I supersetted the abductor/adductor machine with iso leg extensions. One thing I will never let happen is to surrender in the gym, I don't care if my knee cap popped out of place, I will still find some way to better my body. I know I need to start back supplementing Universal Nutrition's Animal Flex, which helps prevent setbacks. Setbacks, as being injuries. Animal Flex should not just be taken while the injury is present, it should be taken before as Universal calls it an "insurance."
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