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I got a gym membership to a 24 hour gym that is 100% machines acept dumbbells. Because i wanted to lift weights before work which i couldnt do with my home gym as it wakes the people next door.
ANYWAY
I was thinking today about machines in most gyms. I know free weights are better but can some stuff in the gym actually be ok? Some of the machine i was specifically thinking of is:
- assisted pull-up machine
- ab machines (they leave my abs burning so they must be doing somethin)
- Smith machine (im convinced they do something I just dont know what)
- rowing machines
- stationery bike
- lat pull down (?? i dunno about these)
- deadlift/squat machine (this is a new one i only saw today it isnt a machine as such but it tilts up like a wheel barrow but you add weight to it.)
Im not a fan of biceps machines or leg machines of any sort.
ANYWAY
I was thinking today about machines in most gyms. I know free weights are better but can some stuff in the gym actually be ok? Some of the machine i was specifically thinking of is:
- assisted pull-up machine
- ab machines (they leave my abs burning so they must be doing somethin)
- Smith machine (im convinced they do something I just dont know what)
- rowing machines
- stationery bike
- lat pull down (?? i dunno about these)
- deadlift/squat machine (this is a new one i only saw today it isnt a machine as such but it tilts up like a wheel barrow but you add weight to it.)
Im not a fan of biceps machines or leg machines of any sort.