Daily Poll 518
Do you prefer machines or free weights?
Building muscle requires consistent heavy weight training that produces enough muscular tension to train your muscles to failure. Overtime you progressively overload the amount of tension on the muscle to keep stimulating growth. This tension can be achieved in several ways but for gym training it’s divided by machines and free weights. There are tradeoffs to using both but for me I prefer free weights since I find the movements to use free weights to be the most engaging and the exercises are easy to replicate in any environment. Those are my thoughts. What about you? Don’t forget to vote on the poll and to comment below!
Wow, I completely missed this one and I am surprised no one answered.
Being a personal trainer for over 15 years, and training myself, free weights are the best on the body. Machines make your body go into unnatural positions, therefore, higher risk of injury.
The best training is functional training. What is functional training? Something you do everyday naturally.
For example, those big earthmover tires people flip, that’s extreme functional training.
A small example; in the kitchen, take a paper towel, wet the floor with your favorite cleaner, hold on to the counter and you can do side lunges, and backwards lunges.
Cans of soup or veges, used as free weights for bi/tris and great for walking lunges.
If my clients wanted do workouts at home and we used no equipment, it was loads of fun and definitely creative.
I apologize for missing this poll, this was my specialty.