If you don't build muscle, it isn't going to be doing you much good. For what it's worth, the huge men on the cover of weight lifting magazines with massive muscles and snake-like veins had to train for years and years, spending hours a day to get to look like that. Most of them take steroids. Very very few people have the genetic potential to ever look like that without steroids. I don't think it makes a huge difference what apparatus you use, as long as you work all of your muscle.
Many people divide their body up and work different areas each workout.
I do legs and butt one day, chest, shoulders, and triceps the next time, and back and biceps the next. You want to give each muscle group a couple days to recover. Do about 3 sets of these to start with. When you get strong enough to lift the weight 10 times, increase it and start over with less reps. All rights reserved.