Dumbbells, barbells, sand, kettlebells, old tires, grocery bags full of heavy books and 5# bags of rice...I don't care. When, in the course of your day, are you required to repetitiously push or pull an evenly loaded weight along a fixed linear path only to retrace that path and gently set that weight back where it came from while seated in a comfy supported position?
Build off of Foundation II, stand up on your own feet, find some object in space, pick it up and move it. Gradually work to moving it an ever greater number of times. Maybe you make it a little heavier and then move it. Whatever. Just continually up the challenge to your system. We need to progressively train our bodies to handle demands we encounter every day. Sitting in a padded seat pushing the handle on an overhead press machine has never equate to the demands of playing with your niece or nephew & lifting them up off the ground in the back yard.
And no, a smith machine is not free weight. It's an over sized paper weight.
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