I LOVE watching other members at Equinox use their technology while they workout. Even the trainers are glued to screens while they train.
Nobody’s body composition has changed much, if at all, in my three years tenure at my location. The idea that an Apple Watch is a means to enhance your experience at a fitness facility is hilarious and backwards.
It’s tirelessly annoying that humans can feel satisfaction about hitting goals on machines designed to keep you weak (and your stabilising muscles/tissues weaker). Sheesh. People need to get back in touch with their humanity. Scientific feedback and metrics can be awesome, but the only people that truly benefit from them are people who also have many years of trial/error experience, knows what is best for their genetics, and eats bountifully for nutrition, not for pleasure.
Which brings me to this: 90% of your fitness is in your diet and diet alone!
This is all marketing. Barf. I think it’s worse that it works.
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I don’t ever use machines, but I’d expect my $200/month membership at Equinox to include all technological advances and features FIRST and with partial exclusivity, no matter how useless they are both in practice and progress. Lol!
Plus, if there’s going to be a major demographic to test the tech, it wouldn’t be a facility with “fitness,” in its name... it would be an Equinox.
You don't ever use machines??
So what do you do with your workout to go around an injury? Ignore the entire muscle group and wait or do you use extremely light weight or compound movements? I use all: Free - weights and machines.
Side Lateral raises
- I personally get a better workout with a LifeFitness lateral raise machine as it specifically isolates the medial head - considering I have a rotator cuff weakness that dumbbells would take months to get more than 5lbs increments. Cabled Side Lateral raises allows consistent tension on BOTH the positive and negative movement thereby working both the slow/fast twitch muscles since the shoulder muscles is combined with an equal 50/50% of both muscle tissue types!
- I cannot do upright rows and recent research states it's not as effective for shoulders yet is more for trapezoid muscles which I do exemplary with shoulder raises/upgright rows since it doesn't affect my rotator cuff injury.
Legs:
Squats ... great for barbell but it isolates different muscles than Leg Press (it's a machine movement) and I can tell you with years of experience with 100m (10.02 fastest time at 14yrs old) /110m Hurdles/Long Jump the explosive power out of the blocks as well as the first 40ms the speed I've attained is NOT the same as from Lunges, Squats, Leg Extensions or Hamstring Curls.
Box Squats can really take away from a few hip flexion injuries or Smith Machine Squats while maintaining the strength if not size to pull through an injury quicker.
- but wait a moment you don't do machines so the back of your thighs are flat?
* The science or research you speak of LED to Machines due to improper form even by those highly experienced lifters which also led to prevent injury.
At the beginning or the end of the day ... if your muscles are strong enough to pull someone out of a car before it explodes, knock out a pedophile trying to take a child away, smack a youth before he shoots another youth, knock some sense into an ignorant man beating on his wife/any woman ... by ALL MEANS I'm going to work out on both free weights and machines! Maybe one day my muscles could help someone else lead a normal life when I'm recently dead. (when science gets there)
I've had a walkman since I was 9yrs old '82!
I enjoy using my Apple Watch to listen to music via Bluetooth to my headphones, I use Gymholic/Strong to track my workouts, properly time my rest periods between my sets and remind me to complete each set or quickly track changes FASTER than a pend and paper, and less cumbersome too!
PS: I don't have to worry about the paper tracking method should I or someone else at the gym spills water on it.
I have no idea what your workouts or your thoughts came from but there is so much you're missing out on. And yes I do calesthetics as well.
