Free weights are better for functional strength


Machines are better for visual aesthetics

Machines are mostly isolation or don't involve muscle stabilization so you have to do more excercises total and have to take into account to train every muscle you might forget seperately. On the other hand you need the big 4 and pullups to hit all your muscles with compounds.

>>37733199
sauce on machines better for aesthetics?

>>37733290
Not necessarily better for aesthetics but provided you know what you do, you can focus on what parts of your body you want to develop and thus end up looking more aesthetic as a result. If you just go heavy on compounds you might end up overdeveloping one lift and crapping out on others. The trex meme is not just a meme, you know.

>>37733183
free weights, only peasants, noobs and pussies use machines.

i used to use machines when i started and i saw virtually no progress, i gradually switched to free weights and now i only use free weights and my bodyweight for dips, chins and pull ups. i saw massive aesthetics and strength gains after i started using free weights in both compound and isolation movements

I like both, I use Machine on my bigger lifts since I home gym (got dat multigym) and don't really trust myself w/o a spotter

If I was at a gym with a smith machine I'd be very tempted to use it over a machine

>>37735310
>Smith machine
>Not a machine
It's the same pussy shit as a machine

Unless you know exactly what you are doing and you are big as fuck, there's almost no point in using machines over free weights.

>>37733243
Wut r the big 4

>>37735450
Vertical leg press, chest flyes, handstand push-ups, and bicep curls.

>>37735450
deadlift
squat
bench press
overhead press

>>37735450

hammer curls
preacher curls
barbell curls
concentration curls

>>37735532
kek