Question for Weight Lifters

When you look like someone I want to look like, then I will take your opinion into consideration. Till then, I'm doing fine, thanks for the advice though.

Yeah since people like Ronnie Coleman, Jay Cutler, Layne Norton have no idea what they are talking about. And the trainers at a University football program. You got me with what you read on the interwebs. ;-)

I can work some more protein in pretty easily actually. I checked and I'm eating enough for someone at my weight who does regular workouts, but it didn't say anything about weight lifting, so maybe I need more.

You can easily.. It's not like you are going to need 250g of protein a day to stop that effect.

Chicken Breast is 35 cals per ounce.. It's just over 5grams of protein per ounce.
Cottage Cheese is another great way.
Greek Yogurts.
Tuna
Pork Loin
Protein powders if you wanted
Etc...

You clearly just want to argue, you have your opinion, I have mine. I see videos of pro body builders using machines a lot. I even pointed one out in this thread. Good enough for me is all I'm saying.

Have a good night.

Says the guy who started the argument. Then goes to call someone out on how they look. Glad I'm the one who just wants to argue.

I just take the advice of a professional body builder over someone on this site. And you have read otherwise, you should too.

Dude, you went to insults, I don't care what you choose. It just shows no matter what, I don't think too highly of you. Especially on a forum where you are suppose to try to be helpful to people. I was giving the OP some advice you wanted to chime in by completely reading into my post, to promote your own agenda. Then you actually insult someone on how they look. Really? You on a weight loss site. You need to check yourself a bit. I'm glad you have a hook up with a professional bodybuilder, why are you on these forums? Just to insult people?

A training program for, say, a pro motorcycle racer may well not work nearly as effectively as one designed for a relative novice such as myself.
If I took instruction intended for a real expert, I may well find myself trying to do something that would end up with me hurting myself as I don't have good enough base skills.

And in the same manner, everything I've read suggests that it's best to start with the basic compound moves to build that basic foundation - and from there then consider moving on to moves that isolate specific muscles more as you start to run out of the 'big' ones.

I squat reasonably heavy alone - but will soon be adding some bars to drop the weights on to if needed.

I'm not sure your reading my posts, or I'm not being clear enough. There are professional body builders on websites where you can see their routine. They use machines for a lot of their workout. Where did you get the idea I have some hook up? I only brought up the way you look because I was saying that when you look like them, then I will take your advice. Not that you look bad, but you don't want to look the way I want to....HELL neither do I though. Your guard is up for some reason, I guess because I disagree about using free weights. Sorry for having a different opinion.

It depends what your goals are, if you want to get big and strong using machines is not going to do that. They take away any need to stabilise yourself as the machine does it for you. If you want to LOOK like a bodybuilder, then sure, got ahead and do a bodybuilders programme. If you want to be STRONG, then dont.

Whatever you choose, dont just blindly follow, do your research, look at whats going to work best for you. And NEVER, EVER use a smith machine to squat. They are the devil, and utterly pointless.