Re: Hire personal trainer?
Free weights are not advanced, not even close. Which would you rather do:
1. Do strictly machine movements which totally isolate the muscle for 6 months to gain strength. Then move to free weight compound movements and try to do similar weight you were using on the machines? You now have quite strong primary muscles with NO STRENGTH in the stabilizer muscles. I don't know about you but this seems a like a recipe for disaster.
2. Start out with free weight compound movements with low weight to improve technique and raise the weight as needed. This way the stabilizers increase strength at the same time as the primary muscles, ie. much less chance of injury.
Hmmm, the choice seems obvious to me.
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