Either way, free weights are a much better and cheaper option.
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This is another "one protocol fits all" type of approach. One can never develop a sports specific and/or daily activity specific strength on a machine. (Unless you are a rower)
Here are some of the facts taken from my trainig manual I wrote and teach for fitness trainers:
1) Most machines guide the load on a fixed or semi-fixed axis of motion. Therefore, the body will inhibit it’s own intrinsic and extrinsic stabilizers while moving the weight. This will weaken the slow twitch stabilizer muscles including the inner unit.
2) 80% of machine training is done while sitting. Any time you have a pad or bench to support you, such as a seated bench press or a machine row, you are constantly teaching your brain to work with an outside support. However, most sports (football, wrestling, etc.) and outside activities (pushing a car or moving a heavy furniture) are being done under the influences of the gravital forces and without any support.
3) While performing exercises on machines where there is a fixed axis of rotation and path of resistance, the CNS (The Central Nervous System) always recruits the same population of motor units and muscle fibers instead of varying them. This might cause certain muscle fibers to experience fatigue much sooner, increasing the chance of tissue overload, and eventually might lead to a repetitive stress injury.
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