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Hey anyone know of some good reading material on the net I can take a gander at to sort out a proper diet for myself and a new fitness routine.

Skipping breakfast, having only 2 meals a day and using too many gym machines has made me hit a brick wall in my fitness I think so I want to try sort it out :)

Thanks.
 
sticky at the top of the forum would be a good place to start. basic enough to understand, easy enough to follow :]
 
Also !

Quick question my gym has like a frame square frame with weights either side on pulleys and a cable and a bench you can pull down in the center. You can also adjust where the cable comes from.. you know either from the bottom up to the top.

I was wondering can you do squats / deadlifts on a frame like this?

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Sort of like that now ive found a pic :D but with a bench you can bring down in the center and you can also lower those pulleys and attach things like a bar accross both which is why im thinking deadlifts / squats on it.
 
Jonny L said:
You'd be much better off with free weights mate.
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If theres a bar you attach to the cables, frankly, it is freeweights, just safe. The difference between freeweights and smiths is the balancing and moveability, cables can move, the weights can move, you won't have the bar perfectly balanced and it will tilt this way and that(as long as its not in some kind of grove).

Its smith machines and the likes with NO other movement that are "worse" than freeweights, but they have their place and plenty of use. Not to mention a smith machine and some exercise is way better than no exercise. Cable based systems like that offer a lot of options and a lot of good exercises you really can't do with freeweights at all.
 
drunkenmaster said:
If theres a bar you attach to the cables, frankly, it is freeweights, just safe. The difference between freeweights and smiths is the balancing and moveability, cables can move, the weights can move, you won't have the bar perfectly balanced and it will tilt this way and that(as long as its not in some kind of grove).

Its smith machines and the likes with NO other movement that are "worse" than freeweights, but they have their place and plenty of use. Not to mention a smith machine and some exercise is way better than no exercise. Cable based systems like that offer a lot of options and a lot of good exercises you really can't do with freeweights at all.
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Well im sick of doing machines when everyone says do free weights so was going to give this frame a go to do some compounds exercises and some more normal exercises for strength like deadlifts etc.
 
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