What piece of essential gym equipment is your gym lacking?

[Eulogy]

That's when I appear out of nowhere to make them nuts feel better!
 

You should have mentioned you were from Getbig!

[ritch]

Many thanks, my good man.

I am in fact ready to go again, but most decent gyms in my neighborhood are still too expensive for my tastes.  If only I could borrow some of those fistfuls of Pounds from Uncle Jr.!

What's too expensive?

[Never1AShow]

bet none of your gyms have these...

Golds Venice used to have these triangle shaped dumbells that you would flick over onto your wrists to use for lateral raises.  They were awesome for that one exercise.

[oldtimer1]

No standing calf and a conventional hyper extension bench. It has those 45 degree ones that are close to worthless. 

[DroppingPlates]

No standing calf and a conventional hyper extension bench. It has those 45 degree ones that are close to worthless. 

Hard to understand why they introduced these.

[thegamechanger]

whats the difference 45 degrees compared to the other?

[DroppingPlates]

whats the difference 45 degrees compared to the other?

The contraction on the top is much less on a 45-one.

[oldtimer1]

whats the difference 45 degrees compared to the other?

If you tried both it becomes quickly apparent the resistance falls off near the top of a 45 degree where you need it most.  The Russians introduced the movement with their Olympic lifters. They used a gymnastic horse and hooked their feet onto wooden rungs bolted to a wall. They put a barbell on their traps. I use a plate behind my head/neck area. 

[V Man]

Looks like a really expensive one of these.