 using a machine, isolating a muscle group, and then pushing the intensity, you're gonna get some good hypertrophy benefits. When you've been practicing with strength training for a long time, you're able to activate more muscle fibers with a set than somebody who doesn't have that same experience. This is why what you'll notice with high-level bodybuilders is they typically start with free weights. This is where they build the majority of their muscle, and then they start to move more to machines as they become pros and get even bigger and larger. Now, for someone who's not a pro bodybuilder, whatever who's listening right now, it's great to combine the two. So now you can start to piece these things together. This is why workout programming can sometimes be so complicated because all these factors come into play, like a squat machine versus a barbell squat, same volume, same intensity, same tension, not the same effect on the body, different considerations. Like one of the big things I noticed with machines is I push the intensity harder and I feel okay. Like if I go to failure on a machine, it does not feel like going to failure on free weights.