Are Machines Better Than Free Weights?

The Jay Ferruggia Show

Jay Ferruggia

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🗓️ 8 July 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Kill your vices, sculpt your physique, and become unstoppable with my FREE 6-Step Daily Domination Blueprint.

Are machines better than free weights?

What exercises do you need for bigger biceps and triceps?

Should you be overhead pressing?

Find out the answers to these questions, and more, in today's Q&A...

What are the 3 core elements of charisma? [1:13]
I've never seen this in 30+ years of coaching. [1:50]
This makes overhead pressing exponentially safer. [4:32]
Why you may not want to do alternating supersets... And when you want to. [7:52]
What's the best nutritional approach to fat loss? [12:40]
Can forearms be built, or is it simply genetics? [19:49]
What are the best exercises for bigger biceps and triceps? [21:20]
Are machines better than free weights? [26:57]

Transcript

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0:00.0	You are listening to the J. Faruja Show, the podcast that helps high achieving men get lean and jacked, build an unbreakable mindset, and become the man you're meant to be.
0:19.3	What is up, guys, back in the house with another episode of the J. Farujiya show coming off another great, great weekend.
0:29.1	Did a renegade live event in Laguna Beach this past weekend.
0:34.0	A bunch of my clients came out from all over the country, bonding, growth, training,
0:38.9	pushing out of your comfort zone, boosting your confidence, taking your mindset to the next level,
0:44.0	and just, you know, getting better. Confidence is always a big theme on one of those weekends
0:49.2	on my weekly coaching calls in my coaching program because that's really the ultimate superpower.
0:54.1	Who doesn't want more confidence? We all need more confidence. There's no such thing as too much confidence. on my weekly coaching calls in my coaching program, because that's really the ultimate superpower.
0:54.2	Who doesn't want more confidence?
0:55.8	We all need more confidence.
0:57.0	There's no such thing as too much confidence.
0:58.6	You can't have enough confidence.
1:00.3	Confidence open doors, it changes things for you.
1:03.5	Your entire life will be better.
1:04.8	Your business will be better.
1:05.6	Your relationships will be better.
1:07.2	Your relationship with yourself will be better.
1:09.6	The more confidence you have, the better life is.
1:11.5	So we really go hard on confidence.
1:13.4	We talk about charisma, which has three core elements, power, presence, and warmth.
1:19.2	And a lot of people have one of those or two of those.
1:21.3	To have all three is really hard.
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