What are you talking about? Powerlifters primarily do compound barbell movements, the ones that use the most stablizing muscles. Are you thinking of the people that only do isolation movements with machines?
Regardless, while it’s harmless silly fun, I’d the weight in those cables is light enough for him to be able to do a Fortnite dance, then it’s not really creating enough of a stimulus for strength gain or muscle growth.
If you do something enough, it’ll give you muscles even if it isn’t hard to do it once. Sure, you won’t get big and buff, but you will train your muscles- not everyone works out to get huge, many just want to feel physically better in their bodies. Just look at people who swim or dance as their only sport, or even those who do ‘light’ manual labour such as gardening. They look more muscular than those who don’t engage their muscles much at all.
Powerlifting is a sport where participants compete to lift the most weight across the bench press, barbell back squat, and deadlift. The typical training regimen includes those exercises and similar secondary movement patterns. Machines have a place in isolating weak spots.
The type of gymgoer you’re referring to doesn’t really fit into a “category,” but “gym bro” is close enough.
What are you talking about? Powerlifters primarily do compound barbell movements, the ones that use the most stablizing muscles. Are you thinking of the people that only do isolation movements with machines?
Regardless, while it’s harmless silly fun, I’d the weight in those cables is light enough for him to be able to do a Fortnite dance, then it’s not really creating enough of a stimulus for strength gain or muscle growth.
If you do something enough, it’ll give you muscles even if it isn’t hard to do it once. Sure, you won’t get big and buff, but you will train your muscles- not everyone works out to get huge, many just want to feel physically better in their bodies. Just look at people who swim or dance as their only sport, or even those who do ‘light’ manual labour such as gardening. They look more muscular than those who don’t engage their muscles much at all.
Yeah, that is what I was thinking of. Are those not what we call power lifters?
Powerlifting is a sport where participants compete to lift the most weight across the bench press, barbell back squat, and deadlift. The typical training regimen includes those exercises and similar secondary movement patterns. Machines have a place in isolating weak spots.
The type of gymgoer you’re referring to doesn’t really fit into a “category,” but “gym bro” is close enough.
I mean, the category you’re thinking of is bodybuilders - specifically bodybuilders from the 80s when machines became popular.
Yeah, but the heavy compounds and dumbbell exercises have made their way back into today’s standard bodybuilding training.
Hence why I specified 80s bodybuilders
Bodybuilders