How to Use free weights in a Sentence

free weights

plural noun
  • The gym is small but mighty, with several new machines, free weights, and treadmills.
    Taylor McIntyre, Travel + Leisure, 26 May 2024
  • New to strength training and not quite feeling comfortable with free weights yet?
    Jenny McCoy, SELF, 17 Jan. 2024
  • There’s a sprawling rooftop pool perfect for laps and a multiroom gym with machines and free weights.
    Katie Lockhart, Travel + Leisure, 26 Nov. 2023
  • Or toward the free weights and strength-training machines to do some resistance training?
    Randal Claytor, Discover Magazine, 30 Dec. 2023
  • Zen Moments After a workout in the gym (treadmills, ellipticals and free weights are a few things available), a trip to the Cloud 9 Spa is a just reward.
    Dwight Brown, Essence, 11 July 2023
  • Everyone laments the gym-goer who leaves their free weights on the floor or plates on the barbell, but to me, re-racking your equipment but putting it in the wrong spot is barely any better.
    Christa Sgobba, SELF, 2 Jan. 2024
  • There’s a yoga section for guests to set up a mat on small platforms in the heart of the hotel’s tropical garden and a fitness room filled with treadmills and free weights inside.
    Parker Diakite, Essence, 29 Aug. 2023
  • So lift weights: compound exercises for your entire body, ideally with free weights, three times a week.
    Andrew Heffernan, Men's Health, 13 May 2023
  • When using free weights such as a dumbbell, barbell, or kettlebell, the easiest point of the exercise is when the elbow is straightened at the bottom of the movement.
    Cori Ritchey, Men's Health, 8 Sep. 2023
  • The first-floor fitness center has top-of-the-line cardio and weightlifting equipment, free weights, a stretching wall, and complimentary water and trail mix.
    Nora Walsh, Travel + Leisure, 17 Apr. 2024
  • The Rice Village 24-Hour Fitness has an indoor lap pool, steam room and sauna, basketball and racquetball courts, group exercise classes and free weights.
    Gabi De La Rosa, Chron, 8 Apr. 2023
  • Participants could use free weights or weight-lifting machines.
    Alyssa Hui, Verywell Health, 28 Apr. 2023
  • In other words, strength training usually requires free weights while resistance training sometimes uses free weights, but doesn't have to.
    Daryl Austin, USA TODAY, 27 May 2023
  • The resort’s fitness center, open 24 hours, includes treadmills, ellipticals, and free weights.
    Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 1 Nov. 2023
  • The expansive 8,000-square-foot open-air outdoor workout area has free weights, cardio machines, fitness classes and a dedicated track area designed for sprinting.
    Luis Campuzano, WWD, 15 June 2024
  • According to the report, lots of different programming can do the trick, like those focused on strength, power, or muscular endurance, as well as those using various kinds of loads, like bodyweight training, free weights, machines, and bands.
    Christa Sgobba, SELF, 18 Mar. 2024
  • But for those who are hesitant about scaling the walls, North Mass Boulder also offers yoga classes, a free weights section and dedicated family rooms, including one with a pirate ship.
    Miranda Jeyaretnam, The Indianapolis Star, 21 July 2023
  • According to an annual survey in the American College of Sports Medicine’s journal, strength training with free weights ranked as the second-most popular fitness trend in 2023, after wearable fitness technology.
    Maia Pandey, NBC News, 25 July 2023

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