Free Weights vs. Machines

When this subject arrives it is plain and simple for me to tell you, stick with free weights. The main reason this being is because compound free weight movements allows you too handle and stimulate maximum amount muscle fibers for the individual that is lifting. When you engage in compound free weight movements such as a flat dumbbell bench press, you have no alternative choice but to follow through with balancing the weight you will battle against resistance utilizing all of your unused stabilizer muscles.

What’s going on exactly here is that you are not given a self guided path of predetermine motion what so ever, all the pressure and responsibility to balance and follow through with the complete repetition of the exercise is securely placed upon the entire muscle region. Now the problem I have with self guided machines is exactly what I just said. Machines are self guided with a predetermine chosen path. This is the problem that lingers and will always remain with the machine movements. The main problem with this is if it gives you a chosen path to follow, your muscle fibers are not nearly being recruited enough to get the full potential benefit from the exercise being performed. This is why virtually every time we step up to a machine, we are able to handle much more weight then our normal muscle capacity rather then with free weight movements because of the simple fact that machines are easier.