When it comes to strength training or any kind of training always have a plan! Know what you are doing, how and why you are doing it. If it means hiring a qualified trainer, by all means do so. Don’t waste your time and energy using machines unless you are frail, have medical issues, or are rehabilitating an injury. Be smart – use your body weight, free weights, tubing, med balls and unconventional creative methods to train efficiently and effectively all with the right and fun equipment.
I see gym goers of all ages using machines when they could work out far more efficiently. I want to wean them off of the ab machines, the hip abductors of the world, the tricep pushdown machines of the planets and introduce them to the best ways to work out. I long ask them what their intention is – and basically ask, “what are you doing?” Don’t train in your comfort zone – train out of it. Otherwise you’ll just get the same old thing and plateau. You should be switching things up at least every month changing your workout – the exercises, the weights, the equipment etc. No more machines – with one exception – the gravitron – that one is a keeper!
