I adore foundation double crochet as a way of starting as it gives a lovely straight row, where as a chain can be a bit wiggly! It's safe. Cable machines are a really safe piece of equipment, as there's no risk of dropping weights.

For many gym goers, the cable machine is a mystery. Unlike with dumbbells and barbells, using a cable machine is not intuitive, so it often gets neglected in favour of other pieces of gym equipment. They're extremely versatile. Pretty much every aspect of a cable machine can be adjusted: the height, handle, weight, direction... This means you can do almost any exercise, from any angle, to work muscles however you want to. You can find and use the free fingerless gloves pattern here on the blog that is supplemented with ads. This allows you to do a surprising amount with the machine. You can pull the cables in pretty much any direction and still be working against the same resistance. Combine this with the different cable attachments available, and you’re pretty much only limited by your own creativity. You can change the direction of resistance. You know with free weights, one half of the exercise feels harder than the other (for example, the press in bench press)? That's because gravity impacts how much resistance a weight creates. With cable machines, the resistance is in the direction of the cable pull, not the center of gravity, so you can target any muscle, from any angle.The only real difference between this and other machines or equipment, is that, in this case, weights are connected to cables via a set of pulleys. You train by moving the cables around, while they stay under constant tension against the weights. This means that your muscles are also under constant tension during an exercise. There is no “resting point” here, unlike with free weights. Use the end of the starting FDC to join the bottom of the wrist warmer around. Turn right side out. FDC (Foundation Double Crochet) Ch3 (counts as first 1DC), yrh, insert hook in 3rd Ch from hook, [yrh, pul, yrh, draw through 1 loop on hook (Ch made), yrh, draw through 2 loops] twice (DC made)], insert hook in last Ch made; rep [ ] for number of sts required. Fingerless glove pattern

Finished one of my crochet pattern makes? I’d love to see it and so would the world, so get sharing! You can find me in the following ways:It works your core and stabilising muscles. Most cable machine exercises are carried out standing up, which means your core and smaller stabilising muscles are working hard to keep you and your movement steady.