If this academic/writer thing tanks, I’m opening a gym. Almost every gym I see is designed to be hostile to fitness. 
I’d stack weights in proper increments and according to real use! Get rid of most machines! Ban the word “tone”! Focus on form and progression, not lbs!
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Replying to @thatadamguy @kusdili
Machines make on more prone to injury in your regular life, so not a good safety argument. I get their use for professional athletes or for rehab. The only one I’d want is a lat pull down, maybe on a cable contraption that allows seated rows and tricep pulldowns. Dassit.
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I have mixed feelings about assisted pull-up/dip machines but I think the pros outweigh the cons. (Bands are also great but change the leverage curve or whatever it’s called.) -signed, still working on fucking pull-ups
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Replying to @0xdaeda1a @zeynep and
Co-signed, Garbage shoulders that complain at supporting my entire body weight
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Replying to @TindrasGrove @0xdaeda1a and
https://www.marines.mil/News/News-Display/Article/673308/zero-to-twenty-plus-marine-develops-program-to-improve-pull-ups/ … is great. Lat pulldowns don’t engage your core. Best with partner or assisted machine or bands till you can do one.
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Also if your shoulders are strained during pull-up/chin-up, you’re not engaging the real muscles you need: lats and biceps. Do negatives till no shoulder strain? Should be zero shoulder strain.
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