Does Anyone Know What This Weight Equipment is Called?

[Kristi]

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I'm writing my first blog for the Reeve Foundation and it's about working out from a wheelchair at a normal gym. I am in my second spinal cord study and this is what we are doing and I just LOVE it! The eye candy is NICE too.

I am getting on equipment I never dreamed I thought I could transfer on, but with a little assistance on some machines it is doable. The machine above seriously makes my arms HURT. I did a big workout Thursday (that'll teach me to ask to do another set) and today my triceps are still sore and I think it's this machine. My goal is to lift the big weights. I'm working my way up!

I need to know what this equipment is called for my blog. Anyone know?

I'll be sure to post the blog address once I get it.

 

[Hoofbite]

Pain.

 

[Chocolate Lab]

It's hard to tell exactly from the pic, but if I'm seeing it right, it's Hammer Strength. That looks like their Jammer machine.

You load plates on it like a barbell, right?

This stuff was started by the son of Arthur Jones, the genius inventor of Nautilus. The idea was to make machines that increased in resistance as you got closer to full contraction, only far cheaper to make and ship because you didn't have to pay for the stack of selectorized weights.

 

[KJJ]

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I'm writing my first blog for the Reeve Foundation and it's about working out from a wheelchair at a normal gym. I am in my second spinal cord study and this is what we are doing and I just LOVE it! The eye candy is NICE too.

I am getting on equipment I never dreamed I thought I could transfer on, but with a little assistance on some machines it is doable. The machine above seriously makes my arms HURT. I did a big workout Thursday (that'll teach me to ask to do another set) and today my triceps are still sore and I think it's this machine. My goal is to lift the big weights. I'm working my way up!

I need to know what this equipment is called for my blog. Anyone know?

I'll be sure to post the blog address once I get it.

I have memberships to several different gyms and I'm not sure what that machine is but it definitely doesn't look like anything for the triceps. It looks like it could be an upper chest workout. What body part were you working out?

 

[Kristi]

It's working my arms. Now granted I am sitting in a chair. My physical therapist described how football players use it and they squat a little and push out. I'm sitting in wheelchair and pushing it out and up extending my arms straight. I can't push it unless someone steps on my footplate because my chair doesn't stay on the ground.

It may not be a tricep machine, but how I am positioned it's working my triceps and pretty much my entire under part of my arm. Pain I was in when I got done with it and still a little sore today. Love it though --- means it is working.

Yes, CL you load plates onto it like a barbell.

I might have to wait til Thursday when I go back to the gym and get actual names of the equipment I am using. This is pretty close to what I am using at the Wellness Center.

 

[KJJ]

It's working my arms. Now granted I am sitting in a chair. My physical therapist described how football players use it and they squat a little and push out. I'm sitting in wheelchair and pushing it out and up extending my arms straight. I can't push it unless someone steps on my footplate because my chair doesn't stay on the ground.

It may not be a tricep machine, but how I am positioned it's working my triceps and pretty much my entire under part of my arm. Pain I was in when I got done with it and still a little sore today. Love it though --- means it is working.

Yes, CL you load plates onto it like a barbell.

I might have to wait til Thursday when I go back to the gym and get actual names of the equipment I am using. This is pretty close to what I am using at the Wellness Center.

Because you're sitting in a wheelchair you're having to compensate which is causing the movement you're performing to focus more on your arms than the intended body part the machine is designed to work.

 

[Kristi]

Yes, I know. I just want to know what this machine is called. It has to have a specific name. Right?

 

[Bob Sacamano]

Yes, I know. I just want to know what this machine is called. It has to have a specific name. Right?

Thingamajig.

 

[ethiostar]

Thingamajig.

No, I don't think so. I'm pretty sure its called the doohickey.

 

[Bob Sacamano]

No, I don't think so. I'm pretty sure its called the doohickey.

But are you positive?

 

[Kristi]

Thingambobber was already mentioned on FB. I want an official technical word for it.

 

[KJJ]

Yes, I know. I just want to know what this machine is called. It has to have a specific name. Right?

It appears to be an Iso-lateral machine for the back/chest/shoulders

 

[ethiostar]

But are you positive?

Come to think of it, i think its called thingamabob.

 

[KJJ]

Thingambobber was already mentioned on FB. I want an official technical word for it.

It's clearly a plate loaded Iso-lateral machine.

 

[Chocolate Lab]

It's working my arms. Now granted I am sitting in a chair. My physical therapist described how football players use it and they squat a little and push out.

Yep, it's a Hammer Strength Jammer, then.

http://us.commercial.lifefitness.com/content.cfm/jammer

And I like that machine, too. Like your therapist said, it's like you'd do a push press, only with more of a forward component. I don't know why someone said you're not using the "body part" intended... It's kind of a two-part movement, and you are doing the top pushing part just like anyone else would.

But I agree that those machines do feel good to use. I think it's because they get harder though the range of movement and are still very smooth. Much better than traditional machines with weight stacks.

Way to go and get strong, Kristi! Keep us updated... I bet your strength goes up really fast if this kind of training is new for you.

 

[KJJ]

Yep, it's a Hammer Strength Jammer, then.

http://us.commercial.lifefitness.com/content.cfm/jammer

And I like that machine, too. Like your therapist said, it's like you'd do a push press, only with more of a forward component. I don't know why someone said you're not using the "body part" intended... It's kind of a two-part movement, and you are doing the top pushing part just like anyone else would.

But I agree that those machines do feel good to use. I think it's because they get harder though the range of movement and are still very smooth. Much better than traditional machines with weight stacks.

Way to go and get strong, Kristi! Keep us updated... I bet your strength goes up really fast if this kind of training is new for you.

If it's only her arms that are sore then she's not using the correct technique. She's sitting in a wheelchair and isn't able to squat and use her legs as intended. This is causing her to have to press the weight up and down with just her arms and upper body.

 

[Kristi]

Well, obviously I can't use it the correct way, but this IS another machine I can use in a normal gym. I have to wheel over the top of it, but that doesn't take much. They don't have equipment like this in outpatient rehab.

The point being is a lot of disabled people don't think they can work out in a gym or afraid to because they don't think there is equipment they can use. I'm guilty of thinking that. My physical therapist is doing a study transitioning about 7 of us into working out with him and then doing it on our own and he hopes to take this study nationwide.

I'm having a blast working out in a normal gym (I have great equipment at home too that I use that is accessible) as there are people my age. It's a good motivating factor as opposed to recovering stroke and broken hip patients at outpatient rehab. It's a big difference.

CL -- I like the Jammer. My therapist has me doing a couple set of 20 with each arm and one set pushing it with both arms. I like that my arms are sore after it -- means I'm working the muscles. I also like being able to get on a mat, stick my head over the side and do some tricep exercises that way too.

 

[Eskimo]

Remember to focus on the smaller stabilizing muscles of the upper extremity as they are very important for wheeling. There is an extremely high rate of rotator cuff tears that develop over time in wheelchair athletes.

 

[Chocolate Lab]

If it's only her arms that are sore then she's not using the correct technique. She's sitting in a wheelchair and isn't able to squat and use her legs as intended. This is causing her to have to press the weight up and down with just her arms and upper body.

Good grief. You're one of those people who will argue about anything, aren't you?

Have you ever used this machine?

You can, and many people do, just stand straight and press out with arms and shoulders only. So how can you say she isn't using "correct" technique?

Anyway...

Kristi -- that's cool. I usually lift free weights, but there's a rehab clinic that I sometimes join for a month or so at a time that has a bunch of Hammer stuff. You're making me want to go sign up and use the Jammer again.

 

[Hostile]

Good grief. You're one of those people who will argue about anything, aren't you?

Have you ever used this machine?

You can, and many people do, just stand straight and press out with arms and shoulders only. So how can you say she isn't using "correct" technique?

Anyway...

Kristi -- that's cool. I usually lift free weights, but there's a rehab clinic that I sometimes join for a month or so at a time that has a bunch of Hammer stuff. You're making me want to go sign up and use the Jammer again.

Oh you have so opened yourself up to being LOLed to death in countless replies that spin off into dementia. I counted something like 17 LOLs in one response from him. Pretty much told me it wasn't worth my time to discuss anything with him.