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Free Weights Or Weightlifting Machines For Muscle Growth?

by Rob Denny 8 Comments

Free Weights Or Weightlifting Machines – Which Is Better?

Free Weights Or Weightlifting MachinesAre dumbbells and barbells more superior to weightlifting machines for building bigger muscles? Well, whether you want to go with free weights or weightlifting machines they both have their own advantages and disadvantages. A lot of it depends on your stage training. Both have advantages we will take a look at below. Bottom line – I don’t care if you use free weights or weightlifting machines as long as you are exercising.

 

 

Advantages Of Weightlifting Machines

  1. Exceptional for beginners since it is not so overwhelming and the array of movement is taken care of. A bodybuilding rookie need not question whether he is lifting appropriately to target a muscle mass group.
  2. Easy to use as equipments normally have instructions on them.
  3. More secure– It will not drop on you in a middle of a lift.
  4. Separate your muscles to make sure that you could rest your injured physical body part but able to workout various other muscle mass parts.

Downsides Of Weightlifting Machines

  1. Possibly increase injury dangers since you may place tremendous anxiety on joints, tendons and muscular tissues do to raising on a fixed pathway.
  2. As a result of isolation of muscular tissues, your muscular tissue gains will be slower and less balanced.
  3. Weight lifting machines have repaired configuration. You will be making use of the same path array of activity as well as width of grip. This may elevate your possibilities of being injured as well as poorer muscle mass development.

Advantages Of Free Weights

  1. With proper form, you are exercising more muscles which will develop more muscle mass growth as well as strength.
  2. Improve your equilibrium as well as muscle synchronization since you need to balance the weights throughout your lift. This will also call on many muscular tissues.
  3. Low-cost and also convenient considering that you need not join a health club. In fact, you can easily get in a great workout at home with just a few dumbbells.

Disadvantages Of Free Weights

  1. If lifting with wrong form and strategy you increase injury dangers.
  2. More time consuming in a gym since you have to bring the weights from one area to another. You also have to add weights to a barbell, consuming more time.

So which is better for building bigger and well balanced muscles, free weights or weightlifting machines? Free weights takes the cake over weight lifting machines for constructing muscles faster and also larger. However, because both free weights or weightlifting machines have there own advantages as well as disadvantages. You can consider the pros and cons to make use of machines or barbells for your exercises or even a combo of both to fit your individual requirements.

Do you prefer free weights or weightlifting machines? Comments are always appreciated!

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  1. Roy says

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    When I first started to go gym, I started with using free weights and then gradually have move to using the weight lifting machines.

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  2. Niharika says

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    My choice goes with the free weights because they are comparatively low in cost and I can easily workout at home any time.

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  3. Ramos says

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    One point to be noted here is that weight lifting machines have the repaired configuration. And as you told, it does elevate possibility of poor muscle mass development.

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  4. Jonah R says

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    Well, I use both free weights and also the weight machines. It depends on my mood of what I want to go with on any day. Both seems to work same for me.

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  5. Wayne says

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    Personally, I would prefer to use the free weights. The reason being that once I had got injured using the weight lift machines and then had to rest for 10 days.

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  6. Harrison K says

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    No matter what you use, free weights or the weight lifting machines, as soon as you are doing the exercise right, its good.

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  7. David05 says

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    I like the way in which you have described the advantages and disadvantages in the simple and easy-to-note manner. Thanks for sharing.

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  8. Maggie says

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    Thank you for sharing this details information. Most of the times people just see the word FREE and got for it without thinking of any PROS and CONS.

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