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Machines vs. freeweights

i have never seen anyone receive a compliment on their stabilizer muscles. i like machines because they focus on the exact part that i want to work and they ensure that i always use proper form. i use dumbells and shit for exercises there are no machines for but most of my exercises are with machines. people like to talk shit cause they think it makes them tougher to use free weights but not many people around here can talk shit to me about it cause i gots me bigger muscles than they do.
 
You will definitely gain more size faster by making your workout "freeweight oriented". Some machines have pulleys and gears that can take off some poundage and do all of the stabilization for you. There is no cheating with freeweights. The only thing you need to be careful of is momentum. Do weight you can control on both the concentric and eccentric movements. Just compare bench press with a Smith machine vs. bench press on a standard bench with plates, that's just one example.
 
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Most people have missed the point on the crucial difference between machines and free weights, and that is multi-joint vs single joint exercises.

Most growth will be achieved via use of multi jiunt compound exercises..............that is a given, Show me then a machine which incorporates multiple joints in the movement.

The biggest difference between machines and free weights is best realised by the natural trainee. If you are natural, good luck trying to put any significant mass on using machines......it won't happen unless you are a genetic freak. When i hear people say 'yeah, but there's guys at my gym who are massive and they mainly use machines', that's bullshit, their growth has much more to do with Steroids than it does with the machines they are using.

The difference between machines and free weights is amplified when applied to the natural trainee, which gives the most significant evidence that free weights are far more beneficial than machines........in all aspects of training.
 
MoneyBags said:
i like machines because they focus on the exact part that i want to work and they ensure that i always use proper form. i use dumbells and shit for exercises there are no machines for but most of my exercises are with machines.

conversely, i prefer freeweights. first of all, i have found that many of the machines aren't really made with the womans frame in mind (ie. calf raise mach.--the shoulder harness is pretty wide...made for guys) and they don't allow me to move in my natural range of motion. instead, i feel as though i am forced to do an awkward movement that limits my ability to push more weight...

make sense??

on the other hand, i don't throw out machines all together--i just prefer freeweights. from what i've read/experienced, they help with symmetry and you get more bang for your buck with lighter weight...maybe that's why you like the machines more???
 
vinylgroover said:
Most people have missed the point on the crucial difference between machines and free weights, and that is multi-joint vs single joint exercises.

Most growth will be achieved via use of multi jiunt compound exercises..............that is a given, Show me then a machine which incorporates multiple joints in the movement.

The biggest difference between machines and free weights is best realised by the natural trainee. If you are natural, good luck trying to put any significant mass on using machines......it won't happen unless you are a genetic freak. When i hear people say 'yeah, but there's guys at my gym who are massive and they mainly use machines', that's bullshit, their growth has much more to do with Steroids than it does with the machines they are using.

The difference between machines and free weights is amplified when applied to the natural trainee, which gives the most significant evidence that free weights are far more beneficial than machines........in all aspects of training.


bingo...
 
if machines are so much better, since they reduce injuries and supposedly work just as well as free weights, why do all professional sport teams and bodybuilder, powerlifters, and even strongmen use freeweights?????
 
Machines do not stress the muscle as well as free weights in most cases. Machines isolate better and therefore are important for a bodybuilder, but if you want to build mass, and for most everything else free weights are better. Besides only pussies use a lot of machines :rolleyes:
 
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