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I would say yeah like let's stick with the machines um and I wouldn't be trying to do you know dumbbell presses or you know Kettle you know kettle bell exercises or anything like that no I I think you really want to build your strength and stability um with body weight and with machines before you progress
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I would almost without exception only have somebody at this age if they've never lifted before um only using machines to start I wouldn't really want them mucking around too much with dumbbells out outside of maybe doing carries um but I I don't I wouldn't want them picking even picking up dumbbells to do lunges or things like that I would sort of save that for phase two of what they're doing
if we're really starting at hey this is a person who's you know going to be doing a lot of this stuff alone in a gym where there's a ton of intimidating stuff going around I would say yeah like let's stick with the machines — and I wouldn't be trying to do you know dumbbell presses or you know Kettle you know kettle bell exercises or anything like that
if they do walk into kind of their local gym fitness center you would encourage them to start on the machines at first and lower weights just to slowly work that up before grabbing free weights grabbing dumbbells anything like that
for example somebody at this age um you know you'll do TRX but you want to be much more stable in the positions you're doing I would would almost without exception only have somebody at this age if they've never lifted before um only using machines to start I wouldn't really want them mucking around too much with dumbbells out outside of maybe doing carries — but I I don't I wouldn't want them picking even picking up dumbbells to do lunges or things like that I would sort of save that for phase two of what they're doing
I would almost without exception only have somebody at this age if they've never lifted before um only using machines to start I wouldn't really want them mucking around too much with dumbbells out outside of maybe doing carries but I I don't I wouldn't want them picking even picking up dumbbells to do lunges or things like that I would sort of save that for phase two of what they're doing