Welcome to the Get Fit Guy, featuring your quick and dirty tips for shaping up and slimming down.

If you listen to episode two, then you know all about the major muscle groups and how to begin weightlifting.

So in today's episode, I'll explain how to use weightlifting

machines and give you a sample machine workout. As you listen to this episode, please remember

that before lifting weights, you should be warming up and stretching first. Pay attention to

the recommended sets and repetitions, and don't play in any other big workouts,

such as running up the side of a mountain or digging up your vegetable garden, on the same day

that you're trying the workout I recommend in this episode.

You'll thank me later.

Finally, if you have no clue what I'm referring to when I say sets and repetitions, you should listen to the

episode number two entitled How to Start Weight Training. Now when you first walk into the gym and there

are dumbbell rows and barbell racks, complex machines, big balls, little balls, half balls,

it can make weightlifting seem like a pretty

intimidating and confusing affair. So in this episode, you're going to learn the best place to

start with weightlifting machines. Now, I'm not saying that weightlifting machines are the only

way to get fit, but they are an excellent tool to teach your body how to move properly.

When you first begin weightlifting your muscles and your joints, we'll need to lift manageable

loads. At least that's if you want to get out of bed the next morning. You'll also need to use

simple to perform introductory movements. As a personal trainer, I've found that if I hand

people dumbbells, barbells, and medicine balls when they first begin a weightlifting program,

it's a bit like Bambi on ice, awkward, uncomfortable, and even a bit risky. For these reasons,

the best place to begin for the first six to eight weeks of your program will be

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