Machine Workouts Vs. Dumbbell Workouts

Embrace Your Real

Julie Ledbetter

Fitness, Health & Fitness, Nutrition

5.0 • 982 Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

There are plenty of women that are reluctant to quit the gym because they think they need the machines to achieve the body that they want. Is this really the case? That's why in this episode of Embrace Your Real podcast, I share my insights about dumbbell workouts, its pros and cons, and why it can actually give you better results than any machine.

What I discuss:

Dumbbells allow for greater range of motion than machines do.
Dumbbells require more stabilization than machines.
Dumbbells offer a greater variety of exercises compared to machines.
Dumbbell workouts can better help you build the body you want.

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0:00.0	Hey there beautiful human you're listening to Embrace your real with me Julie
0:04.8	Ledbetter a podcast where I empower you to just be you with each episode I dish you a
0:10.3	dose of real talk and actionable advice for building your confidence, honoring your body,
0:15.2	and unconditionally loving your authentic self.
0:18.0	Stay tuned if you're ready to embrace your real, let's get it, let's go.
0:31.0	Hello and welcome back to another episode on the Embrace Real podcast. Today I really wanted to address a hot topic amongst my followers
0:35.0	specifically on my Facebook page so I have been really being active on my
0:41.8	Facebook page and I love my Facebook community but there are definitely a lot of people who have come to me whether it's in you know the direct messages or on comments on my reels and they've said you know I want to quit the gym but I feel like I need to have the
0:55.8	machines at the equipment like all the equipment at the gym in order to get a good workout in and
1:00.6	that was me like that was me for years. In my fitness journey I thought
1:05.9	that the only way to get a good workout in was to have the leg press and the leg
1:10.2	extension machine and the lap pull-down machine and the seated back row machine like I thought that I had to have all of these
1:17.8	machines in order to build the body that I want and that couldn't be more than the truth but it wasn't until I decided to take the
1:25.0	leap of faith and really dive into dumbbell workouts all in I have not walked into a gym
1:30.8	since I quit over three and a half years ago and yet I personally am the
1:35.2	strongest I've ever been and I'm also the most consistent I've ever been and so I
1:38.9	wanted to just kind of address this like machine workouts versus dumbbell workouts. Now to kind of preface this, I am a huge believer in
1:45.8	dumbbell workouts, and so I want to speak to the woman who is in my same shoes that I was in.
1:52.1	Like you think that you have to have these machines in order
1:56.0	to get a good workout in and so in no way shape or form and I am I bashing gym machines I think that they can be super beneficial and my like myself I for you
2:06.9	know five or six years in my fitness journey I was a gym goer and that was all that I did I
2:12.2	never worked at home and when I was at the gym I was going to
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