Fitness and Whatnot
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Went back to the gym after 2.5 years of home-gym exercise.
I'm finding that interval sets really hurt on machines.
I'm fucking getting old. Shit.
“It is better to live doing the things that you like. It is foolish to live within this dream of a world seeing unpleasantness and doing only things that you do not like.” -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo.
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@Ganymede Do you have a reason to prefer machines over free weights?
I'd much rather take free weights for many reasons ( http://www.builtlean.com/2013/06/11/free-weights-vs-machines/ ) has some. But my main reason is that machines tend to isolate a single muscle, which is inferior - and somewhat dangerous - compared to compound exercises which work out and strengthen more than one muscle group at a time.
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@Arkandel said:
But my main reason is that machines tend to isolate a single muscle, which is inferior - and somewhat dangerous - compared to compound exercises which work out and strengthen more than one muscle group at a time.
It depends on what machines you're using. Cable-based machines are safe, and probably the best way to hit the groups I need and want to hit. It's kind of hard to do lat pulldowns at home without a machine.
At home, I used free-weights and did bodyweight training, as previously specified. Many of my TBT exercises were compound.
