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Article: Rise of the machines: for maximum gains, some machines are essential.(Training)
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- Flex
- Article date:
- August 1, 2004
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Over the past 100 years, recorded music has gone from cylinders and hand-cranked gramophones to 78-rpm records to long-playing records and 45s on electric hi-fis to eight-track and cassette tapes to compact discs, and now to sales, storage and playback that are completely digital. Turn down your iPod for a minute and consider the evolution of bodybuilding's essential tools over that same century. Barbells and dumbbells traded in their bulbous bells for slim (often-adjustable) weights, but in all other ways they are essentially the same now as then.
From the incline bench to the hydraulic seated calf machine, no gym tool invented in the past 100 years has replaced ...