iso wide chest hammer strength

[Phaded]

how much weight can you do on this thing..

 

[ConstantChange]

A lot.

 

[tzan]

Why waste energy on them, when you could be doing superior exercises??

 

[Mr_MAX]

i love the hammer strength machines

 

[Phaded]

because my shoulder is fucked up.. i can put 5 plates on each side and push off ten reps i was just curious if that is alot of weight..

 

[jay1]

My cheap gym doesnt have hammer strength machines.
but I really wanna try them.

 

[bullish]

10 plates total is alot -- i hav never tried going that heavy on them... I will do them last after i do a my flyes and try and further increase the blood flow... Hammer strength machines are great - if you have to do machines

 

[eat big]

I don't fit on them. I'm too short. My arms are too short for any height on there where I can even extend that far. Awkward machine.

 

[Phaded]

get a nice chest squeeze with the wide chest.. i might implement that to my chest workouts when my shoudler is better.. i injected into my delt hoping it might help.. very bad idea..

 

[psychedout]

Just some food for thought, but maybe machines are making the injury worse.

Machines are built for the ideal persons body structure. Bodybuilders body structures become anything but ideal when they pack on mass, and as a result many machines provide an unnatural and not ideal range of motion (even if it feels fine).

I personally would go back to the drawing board and do light work with db's and really focus on injury recovery.

Just my 2cents.

 

[Phaded]

i'm gonna start trying some db work.. i've done 2 workouts with the machines since its started to be a real pain and it has actually gotten better when using those machines so they aren't making the injury worse..

 

[wallcrawler]

Hammer Strength machines are great! Great isolation!

 

[shamrock11]

I hate machines. I stay away from them.

 

[H_T_]

anything where you get to sit down is inferior.

 

[psychedout]

anything where you get to sit down is inferior.

What about box squats?

 

[guldukat]

anything where you get to sit down is inferior.

Hehe...I hear some of the old-timers even extended that line of thinking to bench pressing. They called it a "lazy man's exercise"

But back to the original topic, I liked the Iso-Wide. My pecs certainly never suffered when I used one regularly.

The only thing that bothered me about that piece was the exaggerated stretch at the bottom, which sometimes bothered my rotators. Like Psychedout said, the movement might actually aggravate your shoulders, Phaded--especially when you're doing over 5 plates/side for reps (which, btw, is really good).

 

[musketeer]

because my shoulder is fucked up.. i can put 5 plates on each side and push off ten reps i was just curious if that is alot of weight..

When I had a shoulder injury, this machine was terrific. I could do 3 plates for 10 reps and in that particular (non hardcore) fitness center i never saw anyone go heavier than 3 plates. Even in the mags I've never heard of anyone doing more than 5 plates, so I'd say that 5 is pretty fucking heavy.

 

[Phaded]

ya i saw some fucking huge ripped dude doing 2 plates and a 25 on each side.. i watcehd and saw he was doing sets of 10 struggling i must be doing em wrong or something..

 

[H_T_]

What about box squats?

lol, smart ass, u know what i mean.

 

[musketeer]

How do you work your chest when you are not seated or lying?

 

[Mr_MAX]

How do you work your chest when you are not seated or lying?

ummm dips.. maybe.. or cable cross over..

 

[guldukat]

How do you work your chest when you are not seated or lying?

Jagshemesh!

And you can't, unless you did some really hellacious bent-pressing

Seriously, I think the old-timers (as in guys in the early 50s and prior) dismissed bench pressing as "lazy" because they frowned on much pec size. I've read some old pieces which talked about "overdeveloped male breasts," and they weren't talking about gyno!