Forty-two plate-loaded machines — the Iso-Lateral range, Ground Base and specialist leg machines. The load is built up with plates, and on Iso-Lateral machines each arm or leg carries its own. Click a machine to open a larger image, the exercises and the full specification.
Ground Base machines stand on their own because they are used from the floor, in a standing stance. The rest is grouped as on the other strength pages.
In 1989 Hammer Strength introduced a movement in which each side of the body works independently, along a path that follows the joint, not the bar. It is still the basis of the line today.
The left and right arm carry their own load, so the difference between sides is seen and corrected instead of being covered by the stronger side.
The arms converge or diverge through the movement, as the shoulder does. A barbell cannot do that, because its path is fixed.
The load is built up with plates, so the increment is whatever you choose and there is no upper limit set by a stack. Plate storage horns are built into most machines.
Frames are 11-gauge steel, mainly 1½ × 2 and 1½ × 3 inch sections, with an electrostatic powder coat. Seats adjust in 12 mm steps and carry numbered markings, and the instruction placards show the muscles and the exercise in pictures, with no language. The line complies with EN ISO 20957-1 and 20957-2.
Three colours, not one: the frame colour, the working arm colour and the upholstery are each chosen separately in the order. Frame and working arm come from the same palette, so a machine can be a single colour or in contrast — a black frame with red arms is the classic Hammer Strength look. The renders show the machines in black; that is not a limitation — colours for Hammer Strength →
Capacity and starting resistance: the figures in the specification refer to one arm. On a machine with two working arms the total load is double. Starting resistance is the weight the user feels before a single plate is added.
