I was recently drawn into a discussion with another fit-pro about the whole ‘weight machines vs free weights’ discussion. For those who don’t know in the 50’s/60’s commercial gyms expanded in number and were looking for a way to save the time and space that free weights took up. This led to the development of ‘weight machines’ and was the beginning of the destruction of human physical culture. I may be exaggerating, but I covered this previously in my blog ‘I hate functional training‘. Read more