• IMALlama@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      That thing looks loud. It also looks like a good workout, but if you’re at the gym you probably want more isolation.

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        3 months ago

        It weighs 100 pounds and isn’t particularly loud. I tried it once to see how it was supposed to work. I didn’t see any advantage over other machines and I much prefer being able to change the difficulty.

        To be fair, it’s a new acquisition and I don’t spend hours in the weight room, so it might be very popular with other folks. To me, it just looks silly.

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          3 months ago

          This is the kind of thing you use outdoors in a field when you don’t have anything else at your disposal. It’s big and heavy and moving it around is a workout, just like a lot of other physical labor. I recently dug a drainage ditch across my 100% solid clay yard (after you get past the 3" of topsoil) and I felt that one the next day, lol.

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      3 months ago

      Should’ve put springs on the other side so it would bounce back to you after you flipped it over

      (yes I’m aware this would be dangerous)

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        3 months ago

        Even though the effort is real, it seems phony to me. It’s as if they made the rowing machine look like a Viking long boat. It just seems like something Bart or Homer Simpson would use at Krusty’s Werld O’ Fitness