What is a machine to you? Lots of people claim to hate machines but when you look at their programs they use tons of machines. You don't have any pulley stacks in your gym? No calf machines? No leg press? No hip-belt squat set-up?
Do you think the guys at elitefts and Louie's Westside gym, for example, are morons for selling and promoting the use of machines for athletes?
Machines I use, pull down, seated row, reverse hyper and once in a great while leg curl but if I use it I pair it up with G/H Raise, 1LRDL, pull throughs, KB swings or anything that will target posterior chain. You will rarely see my clients on a leg press, leg extension or almost anything else that isolates a particular muscle group. What ever they do at Elite or Westside doesn't necessarily mean thats what I do. But remember one thing, the machines they use are only used for supplemental work.
