This entry was posted by Alan ( email address confidential ) on Friday, February 8th, 2008 at 7:28 pm and is filed under Training. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.
Weight training machines
Hey all, some advice would be very much appreciated on this. I know you can’t beat a decent set of weights for training but how does everyone feel about weight training machines? I recently purchased a Body By Jake Gravity Force Trainer & have been using it for the past 3 weeks. I am also taking Promax twice a day and have already noticed my body shaping up. I’m not very overweight but losing the bit of flab around my waistline and toning up ready to be beach-fit is my overall purpose. Has anyone used this machine before and how did they feel about using it? p.s I don’t have any room to keep weights in the house. Cheers 
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February 22nd, 2008 at 4:20 pm
Not an exact answer to your question, but your muscles can’t tell whether the weight is from a machine or free weights. So as long as your routine covers the muscle groups then it’ll be fine.
The only thing I will say is that free weights do have the benefit of recruiting smaller muscles to stabalise the weight whereas the range of motion for machines is fixed. This isn’t always a bad thing as it will help you to increase the specific muscle.
If your noticing gains like you expect, I wouldn’t knock it. Just make sure your working your whole body.
Dave
February 25th, 2008 at 7:26 pm
Cheers Dave, your response is very much appreciated, thanks