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Originally Posted by scors77
Hi, I'm thinking about buying a Weider resistance machine. I've been hitting the free weights or "pumping iron" since I was in high school. I'm in college right now. I've never hit a resistance machine too hard before. What's the difference if any? Is resistance better than hitting the free weights.. does it get you more built and toned.. what does it do?
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What is your goal?
I think weights are probably the best things you can do for strength or muscular endurance training.
However, bodyweight resistance tends to involve more core muscles, in my opinion.
Take a bench press vs. push up. Benches develop strength (high load, low rep) in the tris, chest and lats alot better than pushups; benches are about equal with pushups when you're building muscular endurance (low load, high rep), but...
when you do pushups you've got to keep your back straight & level so that you are doing them correctly which requires much more of your core.
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