hammer strength shoulder press

I have only used this a couple times in the past, just never got the right "feel" from it. However tonight I tried them and they were incredible! My delts got wicked pumped from it. Guess that goes to show that you need to give some exercises a fair shake before giving them up.
KR

i'm assuming your talking about the press where your leaning back like you're in a recliner??

i like this machine, but you never want to use it. all of a sudden you like it?!?!? what's the deal......did you find someone else lol!!!

lol....well I needed a machine and I didn't like the other press "contraption" at my new spot so I went with it and loved it!

I use it and I love it as well, plus it works very well when rest pausing.

I wish my gym had some Hammer Strength stuff. They have none. But I did some behind the head presses today that went well.

Kid,

I've noticed the the same Hammer machine, just previous model (I assume), have different feel. The Hammer at one gym here in town is great. But the one at the gym I normally go to has a different feel - good, but not as good.

I've noticed this for several of there press machines, too.

-Randy

i like that machine; it helped me a lot when I was working with a shulder injury

used it yesterday actually

homonunculus said:

Kid,

I've noticed the the same Hammer machine, just previous model (I assume), have different feel. The Hammer at one gym here in town is great. But the one at the gym I normally go to has a different feel - good, but not as good.

I've noticed this for several of there press machines, too.

-Randy

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Maybe thats the difference then, the new gym I'm at now is alot newer equipment, they opened about a year ago.

There are at least 3 kind of the hammer strength shoulder presses. Incline, Decline, and flat. The way to tell the diff. is the way the back coresponds to the pivot. I know we have 3 different, and a few other hammer machines.

Freakness said:

There are at least 3 kind of the hammer strength shoulder presses. Incline, Decline, and flat. The way to tell the diff. is the way the back coresponds to the pivot. I know we have 3 different, and a few other hammer machines.

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Freakness,

I'm lost - a decline SHOULDER press?... That sounds like a decline chest press.

Hammer has (at least) a decline, a "wide" chest flat press, an incline press and an overhead press. The first 3 are for pecs, the last for delts.

I'm talking about a unilateral overhead shoulder press. The machines look identical (although I haven't seen an old one and a new one side by side to pick out small differences), but have a slightly different feel. Much of it seems to be where the seat is relative to where the handles travel. The good one (don't know if its an older or newer model) places the hand slightly further back than the one that doesn't seem to hit the delts as well. There may be other nuances r.e. the resistance curve, d/t the angle of the lever arm from start to finish (e.g., making it to easy at the start and too hard near the end of the ROM), but I haven't been able to do a side by side "taste test" of the two machines I was referring to.

Regardless, you can get a good delt workout on either of you remember to keep your elbows pulled back during the movement, not allowing them to come to the front and "under" the weight.

-Randy