{"id":406558,"date":"2010-03-09T02:45:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T07:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/2010\/03\/09\/weightlifting-machines-useful-or-not\/"},"modified":"2010-03-09T02:45:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T07:45:00","slug":"weightlifting-machines-useful-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/406558","title":{"rendered":"Weightlifting Machines: Useful or Not?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Filed under: Advice<\/a>, Health<\/a>, Fitness<\/a>, Fit Family Guy<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"Me man. Man lift heavy thing. Put heavy thing down. Lift heavy thing again. Man grow big. Impress woman. Mmmm… man like woman.<\/p>\n

This type of thinking is more common than you might expect, with some adopting a “Captain Hardcore” mentality that free weights rule all and weightlifting machines are filled with suck and fail. These are the same types of guys that don’t mind dropping several dollars on a single serving of Mega-Plex-Whey-Protein-Isolate-Muscle-Blaster-Sludge-Shake.<\/p>\n

I don’t pay much attention to them, and neither should you.<\/p>\n

Yes, free weights are the best type of weightlifting to engage in because their use reflects a more natural human movement, but that doesn’t mean that weightlifting machines don’t have uses. Whether it’s for exercising your chest, back, arms or legs, there are a lot of good weightlifting machines<\/a> out there and you shouldn’t let some over-muscled “bro” intimidate you out of using them.<\/p>\n

Seven Reasons to Use Weight Machines after the jump<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Filed under: Advice, Health, Fitness, Fit Family Guy Me man. Man lift heavy thing. Put heavy thing down. Lift heavy thing again. Man grow big. Impress woman. Mmmm… man like woman. This type of thinking is more common than you might expect, with some adopting a “Captain Hardcore” mentality that free weights rule all and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-406558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}