Hey
@Magic Mike , or anyone who may know.
I have an exercise in the program that is called "machine preacher curl". But it's the only one that doesn't have a video or explain what that is.
Sounds familiar, but I don't remember. Little help here?
Found it!
Urrrrrrg...I HATE that one!
I can never get a comfortable position in the machine.
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Hi Yess,
I gave up machines entirely as they train primary mover muscles in absence of the stabilization muscles.
They are great for isolating bigger aesthetic muscles , the problem is they build faulty neural recruitment patterns, meaning you train your body to fire the big primary mover muscles, while the machine is doing all the stabilization for you. So the smaller unseen stabilization muscles go untrained.
In a real world scenario, this often leads to joint injuries over and over. The reason being is people develop these huge primary movers like “quads” on a machine, then when they step off a curb or get a little off balance the stabilization muscles are asleep and untrained, so the joint can move out of it’s central axis of rotation, and that is what causes nerves or other things to get pinched, or damaged usually leading to injury..
Compound movements with free weights are better for building a more functional and injury proof body ime, as they build prime movers, and at the same time build and strengthen stabilization muscles that keep joints aligned, and in their central axis of rotation .
So ideally when these stabilization muscles are trained with the larger aesthetic primary mover muscles they kick in with proper neural recruitment patterns and stabilize the joint and keep it in it’s central axis of rotation, when it is needed most, which often times is all thats needed to prevent an injury.
That is my reason for staying away from machines, but to each their own I did learn this the hard way.
Anyhow if you do use the machine it is imperative to align your body correctly so that your own joints are in alignment with the machine’s joints. Other wise it will stress the joints and pull them out of alignment.
Anyway thats my ramble and opinion on machines, I used to be big user of them but stopped due to reoccurring and unexplained injuries.
If they are causing you pain during the movement, you might not be lined up with the machine properly..
I been hitting the weights as usual 4 out of 5 days,
All this week I am doing HIIT / sprint cycles for 1 week to recover all the muscles from 3 weeks of heavy lifting . The HIIT/ sprint cycles release HGH, and many other hormones that keep muscles growing and keep energy and metabolism high during this period to reset the body and heal and prepare for another 3 weeks of heavy lifting, followed by another 1 week of sprint/ HIIT cycles.
Hope all is well , have a good workout.