My New Toy

[Ford Prefect]

Got myself a bench for glute-ham raises. It just came today, so I'm putting it together tonight.

http://bestbuyfitness.webdirectbrands.com/product.asp?intProdID=266

Pay not attention to the girl in the picture. She's using it as a roman chain and not for glute-ham raises.

[rubthebuddha]

you lousy *****. i'm stuck using a couch as a bracer for glute/ham raises. have to put weights on the couch to keep my feet from lifting it as i lower. :mad:

[Serpent]

Me no unnerstan? What are you gonna do with it?

[Toby]

I thought with your Westside "links" you'd get a reverse hyper machine? Don't you get more lower back work with your lifts than this could give you? E.g. I feel like I've got two steel cables running alongside my spine in the lower back at the moment and it's not from any back exercises.

[fa_jing]

are you assembling it differently than what is shown? I don't see how the glute ham raises are performed with the apparatus as shown.

[rubthebuddha]

fa_jing -- the leg support portion slides along the main horizontal bar.

ford just needs to be **** careful he doesn't fall forward, and that he makes sure the whole structure doesn't fall forward. :)

[mickey]

Greetings,

I think Ford will be facing the opposite direction from that of the model pictured. I do not know whether the device is balanced for that type of leverage.

Ford, insights?

mickey

[Ford Prefect]

Yup. You face the ground and rest your knees on the pad. From there start performing glute-ham raises. Theres really no way for it to tip forward. It's designed well. I was doing dips off those handles on the front this morning.

Here's the only picture I could find of somebody using one of these:

http://www.defrancostraining.com/articles/images/t-mag/skinny/311west3.jpg

(The stretch band around his neck is to add resistance)

Toby,

It's nearly identical to westside's and it's $400 cheaper... I may do well for myself, but not well enough to blow $400 on a brand name.

http://www.flexcart.com/members/elitefts/default.asp?m=PD&cid=167&pid=807

[rubthebuddha]

(The stretch band around his neck is to add resistance) sick, sick, sick. :D

i'm still working up to a few solid reps. doing those with a band is just flat-out impressive.