Your workouts should center around squat, deadlift, bench, and rows. Cut out all the arm isolation work like bicep curls and tricep pushdowns or whatever you're doing and concentrate on progressive improvement of the big push/pull compounds.

You're instructor probably thinks, btw, that all the machines will minimize you're chance of injury. This is by far not the case and some machines can make you more likely to injure yourself....I've heard about more people screwing up their shoulder on hammer machines then I ever have with free weights. Another fallacy is the idea that starting out with machines is "preparing" you for work with free weights allowing you to start out heavier then you normally would. One problem is that there is not necessarily complete carryover between a machine and a free weight lift and another is that some of the machines are not training the stabilizers. Both scenarios could heighten the likelihood of injury when moving to free weights.

I just realized you have seated rows but there is still way too much pushing in comparison to pulling.

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If you act sanctimonious I will just list out your logical fallacies until you get pissed off and spew blasphemous remarks.