I curl 110 on the arm curl machine.. is this as much tension as curling an actual dumbbell of this weight?

[Anonymous]

[Likes2drive]

It’s a lot different on the machine than a free weight, when you do free weights you’re using other muscles to balance it as you do the work out so it’s a lot harder than using the machine which is only concentrated on the one movement with the weight. An example would be trying to pick up a person that weighs 110 pounds versus picking up a weight that weighs the same, it’s a lot awkward when the weight isn’t concentrated in one spot

[Staximus]

Not even close. Don't lift any weights you can't lift at least 5 times, preferably 10 times. That goes for the machine, too. If you stick to only lifting weight that you can do 10 or more times you are less likely to get injured. If you try to max out all the time you're going to get injured.

[Iron_Man]

I doubt very seriously you can do something like that working out with it doing 10 or 12 reps and No it’s not the same thing as lifting a barbell

[Asker]

So what’s the equivalent weight?

[Iron_Man]

More than double difficult the next time you go to the gym load 112 pounds on a barbell but first ask, how much does the barbell weigh and pick it up and stand and curl it to your chest you’re going to feel it in your back and your elbows and the hands all that weight then after you rest for a while, go back to the curling machine sitting down curling machine and tell me how it feels

[Iron_Man]

When I was in my early 20s doing 10 reps curling a barbell set after set was quite shore and I could feel it in my back and my elbows after a while, I started getting tennis elbows pain in my elbows over time

[Iron_Man]

I forgot to mention I was curling 120 pounds and that’s just picking up deadweight from the barbell totally different from the sitdown curling machine

[Kingofkings1992]

Lol nope