Many athletic programs and professional sport teams along with a multitude of individuals use bodybuilding machines to condition athletes. When we consider that most bodybuilding exercises require neuromuscular isolation (working a single muscle), not integration (working multiple muscles and muscle groups), and virtually every sport or functional activity known to man requires a high level of neuromuscular integration, we are off to a bad start. Bodybuilding exercises done on machines require no activation of postural muscles, minimal activation of stabilizers and neutralizer muscle function, and certainly don't require that you maintain your center of gravity over your base of support at all times. There's not much need to activate and stabIlize postural muscles when sitting on a machine with the base of support bolted to the ground! If I were a sabertooth tiger in the primal environment, I would certainly be hoping to see a bodybuilder or two by now. I wonder if a tiger could taste the lack of neuromuscular intelligence in a muscle, should he have eaten a bodybuilder? A good athlete will never know! George Carvajal