Health Blog

I am creating this blog to write down my health goals and sucesses so that my personal trainer friend (Yellie) can keep tabs on my progress.
I have found that if I have no accountability for being healthy, it's hard to eat well and exercise.
We'll see if this helps!

Monday, November 1, 2010

Free Weights vs Machines

I have been sucessful with my new goal for the past two days!  Before now, I hadn't done the DVD in a while though, so my arms are DEFINATELY feeling it.  Ouch. I'm looking forward to this increasing my strength and endurance a bit.

The difference between free weights and strength machines is kind of odd.... at the gym I can usually do the 20-35 lb level pretty well for all arm exercises, but I'm using two 8 pound free weights at home (so 16 lb total) and it HURTS! 

1 comment:

  1. the difference is a machine does the lifitng for you! it's a great tool for rehab-ing an injury or if you're just getting started, but for real life lifitng of weight, machines is not where it's at!
    i'm talking body weight and free weights baby! WAAAYYYY more bang for your buck...but you know that now don't you ;)
    as usual i'm pumped! keep it up!!!!

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