My brother brought me to the gym and gave me a very brief idea
on working out.
The rest was going to the internet and reading those VERY OLD
SCHOOL principles on weight-training such as still retaining
bodyweight exercises like chin-ups and dips on parallel bars +
compound movements and discouraging overuse of isolation
exercises.
I was using machines at first.After reading more and more from
t-nation.I threw the machines entirely out of my routine except for
those cable pulley machines(even so used sparingly only).
And lastly i emphasise.
You want gains, workout on the free weights compound
movements.Though it causes more muscle "pain".But NO PAIN NO
GAIN.
A compound movement is a movement that invovles many big muscle
groups or even 90% of the entire body to do.