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Title: Fitness equipment, functional or entertaining?
Post by: DroppingPlates on March 30, 2010, 07:56:39 AM
I'm certainly not a machine fan but yesterday I was in a new gym with a Hoist plate loaded machine line. The last one felt pretty good on my lats.
(http://www.hoistfitness.com/images/prod/commercial/ani_rpl-5303.gif)
(http://www.hoistfitness.com/images/prod/commercial/ani_rpl-5501.gif)
(http://www.hoistfitness.com/images/prod/commercial/ani_rpl-5201.gif)

But what about the moving seat, it is a functional or entertainment feature?
I go for the last one, it felt like riding on a drunk donkey  :-\




Title: Re: Fitness equipment, functional or entertaining?
Post by: Vince G, CSN MFT on March 30, 2010, 08:32:56 AM
I'm certainly not a machine fan but yesterday I was in a new gym with a Hoist plate loaded machine line. The last one felt pretty good on my lats.
(http://www.hoistfitness.com/images/prod/commercial/ani_rpl-5303.gif)
(http://www.hoistfitness.com/images/prod/commercial/ani_rpl-5501.gif)
(http://www.hoistfitness.com/images/prod/commercial/ani_rpl-5201.gif)

But what about the moving seat, it is a functional or entertainment feature?
I go for the last one, it felt like riding on a drunk donkey  :-\


Machines are nice but I hope they have an option to have a weight stack on these products




Title: Re: Fitness equipment, functional or entertaining?
Post by: Hulkotron on March 30, 2010, 08:45:30 AM
Looks like nonsense.
Title: Re: Fitness equipment, functional or entertaining?
Post by: DroppingPlates on March 30, 2010, 08:55:10 AM
Machines are nice but I hope they have an option to have a weight stack on these products

Yeah, but also with the drunk donkey feature  :-\
Do you sell equipment like this?
(http://www.hoistfitness.com/images/prod/commercial/ani_rs-1201.gif)

Title: Re: Fitness equipment, functional or entertaining?
Post by: Vince G, CSN MFT on March 30, 2010, 08:58:00 AM
Yeah, but also with the drunk donkey feature  :-\
Do you sell equipment like this?
(http://www.hoistfitness.com/images/prod/commercial/ani_rs-1201.gif)



I carry the Body Solid Line and soon Bodycraft.  There's already a dealer in the area for Hoist Fitness so I can't sell their products
Title: Re: Fitness equipment, functional or entertaining?
Post by: Tapeworm on March 30, 2010, 09:05:13 AM
Looks gimmicky and distracting.  Can't see any benefit.
Title: Re: Fitness equipment, functional or entertaining?
Post by: DroppingPlates on March 30, 2010, 09:17:14 AM
I carry the Body Solid Line and soon Bodycraft.  There's already a dealer in the area for Hoist Fitness so I can't sell their products
I won't recommend Hoist, not only because of their seats. Some machines are hard to adjust and feel pretty unstable; not the quality you should expect from a commercial line. A brand like HammerStrenght may be more expensive but is so much easier to adjust and is more stable.
Title: Re: Fitness equipment, functional or entertaining?
Post by: DroppingPlates on March 30, 2010, 09:23:36 AM
Would be a good prop for a porn movie
(http://www.hoistfitness.com/images/prod/commercial/ani_rs-1407.gif)
Title: Re: Fitness equipment, functional or entertaining?
Post by: Vince G, CSN MFT on March 30, 2010, 09:27:16 AM
I won't recommend Hoist, not only because of their seats. Some machines are hard to adjust and feel pretty unstable; not the quality you should expect from a commercial line. A brand like HammerStrenght may be more expensive but is so much easier to adjust and is more stable.

Hoist has some equipment that would be very benefical to sell to a gym but Body Solid still has better pricing and and a much better customer service dept in place
Title: Re: Fitness equipment, functional or entertaining?
Post by: DroppingPlates on March 30, 2010, 09:30:24 AM
Hoist has some equipment that would be very benefical to sell to a gym but Body Solid still has better pricing and and a much better customer service dept in place

Then show me an example of a good Hoist machine, one without the drunk donkey feature
Title: Re: Fitness equipment, functional or entertaining?
Post by: Vince G, CSN MFT on March 30, 2010, 10:09:06 AM
Then show me an example of a good Hoist machine, one without the drunk donkey feature

The machines you showed were from the Roc-It series but the CF Series is no joke

CF-3754  Dual Action Smith
http://www.hoistfitness.com/commercial-equipment/cf-3754.aspx

(http://www.hoistfitness.com/images/prod/commercial/WEB_CF-3754-Angle_wRkWts.jpg)
Title: Re: Fitness equipment, functional or entertaining?
Post by: DroppingPlates on March 30, 2010, 10:18:01 AM
The machines you showed were from the Roc-It series but the CF Series is no joke

CF-3754  Dual Action Smith
http://www.hoistfitness.com/commercial-equipment/cf-3754.aspx

(http://www.hoistfitness.com/images/prod/commercial/WEB_CF-3754-Angle_wRkWts.jpg)

The gym has 2 smiths, not sure if they have one from Hoist. At least one is from Sportsart since the gym owner is their dealer for my country
(http://www.sportsartfitness.com/SAF/Images/Products/FullSize/benches_racks/smith_machine.jpg)