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by omn1 4672 days ago
> I put on 40 pounds of muscle one year alone by eating until I couldn't move, and then lifting as heavy as I could. I got up to doing a 400 pound deadlift, 225 pound squat, 195 pound bench press and I was doing pull-ups with an additional 90 pounds of weight added to a chain around my waist.

There.

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None of those are machines. Those are likely all free-weights. I only say "likely" for the bench press, as it could be a machine, but is unlikely. People that do squats and deadlifts tend not to do their bench press on a machine.
Squat could also be with a machine (smith machine), but it's unlikely for someone doing deadlifts.
eww, but yeah, forgot about that one (probably purposely).
I wouldn't call a barbell a machine.