Originally Posted by mikepwagner

Yeah, after New Years. I think that I will put my Smith machine on CL for sale or trade for a high quality cage.

One time, after I had been using the Smith machine for a while, I decided just for the heck of it to do a free weight squat with very little weight. That was an eye opener - the weight was at most a 1/3 of what I could squat with the Smith machine for several sets, and I could not do more than a couple of squats. My quads and glutes were plenty strong, but I was wobbling all over the place. I was pretty surprised.