Machine Love

[cog]

Going to start this thread for pics and a few words of any workout machine you might like,or just find interesting.Something old maybe something new.


I like this old Universal because the handles float.

[Skailes]

There are some machines I like and some I don't and there are some equipment manufacturers that make some really great machines and some machines that are crap....I've yet to have found one manufacturer that made every piece great, so it's important for gym owners to shop around and test out each machine from every line made by a manufacturer and pick and choose only the best machines or benches for that matter.

[cog]

I agree,I would like to build some myself if I had more time.Going to get a better pic of a Keiser cable station next time I visit southland,air compressor is separate.

[faller]

All the equipment in our gym is Apex, lol.

[#8]

I really like the assisted dip / chin up machine at my gym actually. Really good for getting form perfect on chins and learning how to really target the lats. Has helped add many reps to my chins for sure.

[TT Eric]

Personally I don't use machine much, I use lying leg curl regularly and I use lat pulldowns for warming up before chins. Might use leg extension eventually, but did not for the last year. Oh and leg press 45, if you consider it a machine.

Eric

[Hosehead]

I train at two different Good Life gyms. One has the shittiest machines I've ever come across. Hammer Strength that have the stack loaded plates simply suck. The other gym has older generation Hammer Strength that are plate loaded, which I feel are a step closer to free weights. I like mixing some staples like deads , db rows and bent rows in with similar feeling Hammer Strength stuff. But overall I feel 70 - 80% of machine suck.

[cog]

I really like the assisted dip / chin up machine at my gym actually. Really good for getting form perfect on chins and learning how to really target the lats. Has helped add many reps to my chins for sure.

Now if you could couple that with rings you would really feel it.Rings with a few feet of strap length are much different than fixed grips.

[cog]

I train at two different Good Life gyms. One has the shittiest machines I've ever come across. Hammer Strength that have the stack loaded plates simply suck. The other gym has older generation Hammer Strength that are plate loaded, which I feel are a step closer to free weights. I like mixing some staples like deads , db rows and bent rows in with similar feeling Hammer Strength stuff. But overall I feel 70 - 80% of machine suck.

When bj's in Calgary first got a line of Hammer nobody used it.The owner had to just about beg to get people to try it.I only like the pull down unit,just don't like pressing those things.


Anybody looked into the complexity of some of the Keiser's?

[#8]

Now if you could couple that with rings you would really feel it.Rings with a few feet of strap length are much different than fixed grips.

Truth.

I am 220lbs lean with long ass arms and I am tall lol. Excuses, excuses right?

I have a really hard time getting good at chins and I am just finally getting a grip on improving for reps. I have a set of rope rings I will use eventually to get awesome at them