Those things absoulutely blow dead dogs.....there are only 2 gyms here in the tiny town I live in.both on college campuses.....one is awesome, and I trained there for 12 years, but now only students are allowed to workout there....the other has the Hoist line so I train at home with limited equipment but it gets the job done and I don`t have to use that Mickey Mouse Hoist BS.
Blows dead dogs... LOL.
Are Hoist machines as bad as, or worse than, the Hammer MTS line?
Talk about garbage. The local Gold's was bought out by Planet Shitness, and in short order, they canned all of the "scary" plate-loaded Hammer pieces. I was stupid enough to comment about that to one of the staff, an admittedly really cute little trick who never trained but chain-smoked Marlboro Lights on breaks and seemed to eat Bogangles biscuits every day.
"Oh, these new machines are the same thing!", she said.
The only decent piece of the lot was the MTS pulldown. Its resistance curve was awesome.
Their chest and shoulder press? Laughable. The chest machine had more friction than the epicenter of Rosie O'Donnell's earthquaking thighs; meanwhile, even with the shoulder press' seat set for an exaggerated ROM, the full rack was so light that I terminated a set from boredom.
That MTS garbage was considerably worse than even the BodyMasters crap they brought in. At least their upright bench press could easily be modified to a spotterless close-grip if you secured a sturdy pulldown bar between yourself and the machine's handles.
