03/31/2023
100% en accord! C'est en partie pourquoi vous ne trouverez pas de machine à la Base!
"...check out the weight facility. If there are more machines than weights and you’re not in the snack room, think twice before entering. –Louie Simmons, powerlifting coach extraordinaire
Machine training is often hyped as the thing to do for beginners because free weights are harder to control. “Contrary to common belief,” state Prof. Verkhoshansky and Dr. Siff, “the novice must be taught from a base of mobility to progress to stability, just as an infant learns to stand by first moving, staggering and exploring the environment.”
It is best to learn to use free weights when you have the least strength to hurt yourself. Would you rather ‘stagger and explore’ with fifty or three hundred fifty pounds in your hands?
A machine restricts you to one plane of movement. Your stabilizing muscles get no workout because the machine is doing their job. When you get back to the real world where you have to control your weights, you will expose yourself to an injury in the planes of movement you have not strengthened. Besides, you will not be able to use most of your strength. Your nervous system will shove a brick under your gas pedal when it realizes that the stabilizing muscles are not up to the job. Using the strength built on an exercise machine is like shooting a cannon from a canoe!
In addition to the acute injuries you are asking for if you try to test your machine-built strength in the field, you will be building up micro-trauma for future problems. “The more fixed the object, the more likely you are to develop a pattern overload,” explains Paul Chek. “Training in a fixed pathway repetitively loads the same muscles, tendons, ligaments, and joints in the same pattern, encouraging micro-trauma which eventually leads to injury.” Compound that risk with the difficulty of lining up your joints with the machine’s axis. Machines were built for an ‘average person’—and I am yet to meet one.
Free weights are the most natural, versatile, safest, effective, and efficient training tool.
–Pavel, in: Power to the People, 1999