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Anonymous
Machines should be solely used by frail people, those with injuries, and the most advanced bodybuilders for safely isolating muscles. I'm going to assume you are none of those, so yeah.
If you want to bulk up you need to do two things. You need to eat past your maintenance level, which means more food than you need to retain your normal weight. Food is the most anabolic substance we have, and is the only way to bulk up without steroids. You need to eat food, and eat alot.
As for exercising, since you are new, full body compound exercises are what you need to aim for. You do not have enough strength to isolate muscle, you need to put on larger amounts of weight that will work a large chunk of your body at once.
This causes heavy hormonal release and testosterone to course throughout your body, which is not caused from the stress of many light machine reps. This is why you are able to return to the machine multiple times, you simply aren't doing enough, and do large amounts of reps won't help.
Here is a perfect routine that you could easily do for a full year, get great results, learn your body, before you ever have to worry about isolating muscle.
http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=998224
It's a simple read, for beginners, and you'll get it down in no time.
Follow that, drink plenty of water, get together some Whey Protein for Post-Workout Shakes, eat alot, and you'll bulk up in no time.
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