Goosey
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Yeah I played around with the different pins using the same weight. The only difference I noticed was that the loading pin furthest from the lever provided the greater resistance, which as you say is to be expected re simple levers.
I lifted the huge amount of 10kg per leg for 4 x 20 and it destroyed my quads. I`m not soft by any means but doing it slowly and correctly with less weight provided much more muscular pain than from flicking a heavy weight up and down.
Seatbelt was applied for the last couple of sets and added an extra mental cue to keep the tension constant and remain in the seat.
I`m really impressed with the smoothness of the machine in general. I have seen a few Hammer Clones on the gymdirect website which have caught my eye.
Any other hammer machines that you have used that you enjoyed?
That's a good idea, the seat belt keeps your bum back in and on the seat.
The leg press, uni-lateral or solid plate is the best available, again, the bio-mechanics are really good.
The pullover, although you don't get a good stretch out of compared to the nautilus the strength curve is much different, much harder at contraction or the last 300mm of the movement.
The High pull
If you see one, get it (graysfitness) have one at the moment.
This movement is the single most effective back building exercise, Gary Jones got this one right.
The dead lift or lunge/shrug machine
A great piece is used correctly, directly transferable to the BB version.