Machines Can Boost Muscular Strength

If you’re after pure strength (not necessarily pure muscle size), then using free weights are the better route because of the destabilization factors.  However, machines can help boost muscular strength and assist you in your muscle building and weight gain efforts.

Bodybuilders who weight trained for ten weeks using a machine bench press gained about the same amount of strength on that particular exercise as those that used the barbell bench press, according to the study found in the November 2007 issue of the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research.

One Response to “Machines Can Boost Muscular Strength”

  1. Sportive Says:

    Thanks for sharing :) it’s a good information

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