Working with just isolation machines?

[chri5t]

The reason I ask is the racks and bars are too crowded every time I go...

I'd much rather train my chest using the variety of isolation machines, etc.

Is it bad to only just isolation machines?

[tricepwarrior]

Why would it be bad?

I tend to use machines or exercises that isolate the chest the most. It would only make sense, right?

I steer clear from the bench completely.

[jbball92]

The reason I ask is the racks and bars are too crowded every time I go...

I'd much rather train my chest using the variety of isolation machines, etc.

Is it bad to only just isolation machines?

Its fine! most ppl just find it more effiecient to do workouts that target 2-3 muscles at a time

[MiderSpaniel]

Not bad necessarily, just inefficient for a noob, and usually a sign that you don't know what you are doing.

[suckahfreeboss]

I steer clear from the bench completely.

what I dont even

**** MACHINES! Free weights are the most important! Compound lifts. Training with only isolation machines...ugh I'd rather die.

[ThanksIKnow]

what I dont even

**** MACHINES! Free weights are the most important! Compound lifts. Training with only isolation machines...ugh I'd rather die.

PAT STAY SUCKAHFREEBOSS??

But your still working out... Yes I believe free weights are superior to machines, but at the same time i woudnt avoid a machine for that reason

[suckahfreeboss]

try to work in your sets with the guys at the racks and benches. make friends? i dunno lol. Machines are all fine and dandy, but you really gotta get those big lifts in

[AsianAesthetics]

its not as easy to progressively overload yourself with isolations.

[Brocaine]

Machines are ghey

have fun explaining to a girl that you don't bench press, and trying to brag about your "seated chest press" max on the hammer machine.

[MiderSpaniel]

Machines are ghey

have fun explaining to a girl that you don't bench press, and trying to brag about your "seated chest press" max on the hammer machine.

You brag to girls about your bench press? lol

[jctsu]

I would say that isolation machines are ok to integrate into a workout (especially if you are a novice), but but but..

its a definite no-no to do JUST isolation machines..

free weights are still the best way to build muscles, mainly because they also help build what you call the "stabilizer" muscles. And free weights help increase your functional strength.

[MiderSpaniel]

free weights are still the best way to build muscles, mainly because they also help build what you call the "stabilizer" muscles. And free weights help increase your functional strength.

Functional strength is a myth

[B116]

I personally do both, you can use free weights and Barbells to go heavy and build the muscle and machines to pump some more blood, if you are using machine try to go heavy, sometimes I'll superset a free weight exercise and a machine, works great.

[Marc936]

not saying it wont work, but everyone in the gym that's huge lifts the big 3, if you catch my drift

[Austere]

I'm confused, why would you do bench press in a rack?

Also, either find another time to get to the gym, ask if you can work in, do something else and come back later, or just wait. My university gym is crowded all the time, and I've never missed a bench session.

To be honest, the reason we don't use machines for everything is that a big part of the exercise is stabilizing the weight, and there's a lot of muscles and muscle fibers that play into that. On a machine, you can only move the weight in one axis, and the stabilization is done for you.

[dizzay20]

[minimoogle]

what I dont even

**** MACHINES! Free weights are the most important! Compound lifts. Training with only isolation machines...ugh I'd rather die.

/\ This
7 days spent using machines makes one weak.

Free weights are much easier to track progress and enable you to use supporting and stabilizing muscle groups. Plus not every machine is always open, and you can use a diff one for the same exercise but each one is also a bit different and therefore you can't necessarily transfer progress made on one machine to another.

Then again it's all up to whatever works for you, and in the end that's all that matters.

[dragonman6]

Machines are ghey

have fun explaining to a girl that you don't bench press, and trying to brag about your "seated chest press" max on the hammer machine.

i told my ex-girlfriend that i dont bench press and only do "seated chest press" and then she broke up with me. i sounded like so much of a pussy man....ever since then i started doing real benching and now im pickin up all the ladies. its all about the barbell bench man.

[AidosBrah]

i told my ex-girlfriend that i dont bench press and only do "seated chest press" and then she broke up with me. i sounded like so much of a pussy man....ever since then i started doing real benching and now im pickin up all the ladies. its all about the barbell bench man.

u srs?

[stanzione1017]

i usualy only use machines after ive completed freeweight training, so i can focus more on the muscle itself rather than moving heavy weight and trying to stabilize it.

According to Jason Huh all it takes is "time under tension".. so if you get results your happy with from isolation machines, stick with it!

[dragonman6]

u srs?

hello no. jus tryin to get OP to start benching how the real men do.

[Brocaine]

You brag to girls about your bench press? lol

They ask me how much I bench press, what am I supposed to do brah?

[MiderSpaniel]

They ask me how much I bench press, what am I supposed to do brah?

I bench 365 raw, and I have never ever had a girl ask me how much I bench. Does your hand as you how much you bench or something?

[Brocaine]

I bench 365 raw, and I have never ever had a girl ask me how much I bench. Does your hand as you how much you bench or something?

DON'T YOU TALK CRAP ABOUT MY PRECIOUS JILL



jk brah, but idk, bishes have asked me how much I bench. Maybe you're hanging out with a different breed of bishes than me.

[MiderSpaniel]

jk brah, but idk, bishes have asked me how much I bench. Maybe you're hanging out with a different breed of bishes than me.

Maybe. Not sure if I want to hang around with this breed of 'bishes'....

[Maxwell1995]

Oh lawd. I'm not sure if there are any pros in any sports that require weightlifting that don't do at least one compound lift... Just get in line for the barbells or dumbbells OP

[forquer14]

The reason I ask is the racks and bars are too crowded every time I go...

I'd much rather train my chest using the variety of isolation machines, etc.

Is it bad to only just isolation machines?

no, its completely fine. you are not cheating or anything. in fact, you are even working your muscles more, and heres why: you are isolating the certain muscle that you are working on making sure that, if you are wobbly on free weights for example, you wont strain a muscle that you arent supposed to use (at least making that less likely)

[forquer14]

Not bad necessarily, just inefficient for a noob, and usually a sign that you don't know what you are doing.

this is a very uneducated, egotistical reply that shows that you dont know what you are talking about, try reading a fitness book kid