The 10 BEST Gym Machines For Muscle Growth

0:00 the prime prime is just getting love and they deserve it it's a unbelievable equipment company it gave me the best pump I've ever had in my life who you say you hate it but I think you would like it if you hey folks I'm here with Jared feather ifbb Pro and I am Dr Mike former professor and current guy that has a degree in sport physiology and a PhD at that 10 machines that you must be

0:26 familiar with to search around the world to get you the best workouts possible for a bunch of different muscles to body 3 2 1 10 machines first up on our list is the Atlantis hack squat why do we like the Atlantis hack squat so much Jared you can adjust the foot padding yep so adjusting the foot platform means that you can angle it lower or higher which

0:57 means no matter what your body shape or size you can press through your heel and whole foot and not have to come up on your toes that's a beautiful thing so good it's the only machine I've ever used only leg machine I have ever used like a a quad machine in which I had Crocs on and I was healed down full ROM I remember doing like three sets of hacks and being like I think that's good

1:22 I have oddly a really huge pump does it make sense from three sets and that was us in Canada at the Atlanta facility remember we like walked around monreal and I was limping everywhere it maimed me in the best way possible crazy Doms it's just the best when you have of the best you need to know about it you can adjust the back support pad which for a lot of people when you're completely vertical in the hack squat in your back

1:43 like this there's a little bit more knee pressure than if you push that pad forward it actually puts your torso to where you can almost get more forward knee flexion without that knee pain that most people experience and then obviously you can adjust the range of motion thing which we would just never touch but yes it is the third thing yes for sure and also technically speaking because you can leverage the chair completely up it's also a leg press yep and a hack

2:07 squat at the same time especially with the adjustable backpad I because there's a full adjustable which would make it more of a leg press and there's a halfway adjustable and for me because my ankle Mobility is so shitty I still use the squat shoes obviously put the plate all the way down and put the adjustable backpad Midway so I'm still getting a lot of my shoulders into the pads yes the upper pads that is the best stimulus fatigue I've

2:32 ever had for my quads in my life it's just awesome yeah the Nautilus assisted pull-up is next editors good luck finding a picture of this it's quite rare but what it does is it lets it it doesn't track vertically yep as you do the Ecentric for the assisted pull-up the foot pad the body holder device moves forward

3:05 which means as you go down it stretches your lats even more and coming back up isn't a vertical pull only it's a vertical pull and a pullover at the same time I mean back after you use it you're like why does anyone bother making any other machine assisted pullup and I have I so great assistant pullup machine in my house but there's a difference between Great and the best is like you might have a girl that's just so hot

3:32 she's your girlfriend she's amazing right Jared like everyone's always like damn dude she's so fine how do you keep her in line you're like well I'm just a free spirited guy and she can go anywhere she wants she likes your boys what she likes and she ain't leaving then you go to the club and you see lizo I'm talking about Prime lizo and all of a sudden you're drooling and your girl's like are you horny for me and you're

3:50 like I'm sorry who are you and you move her by the face out of the way run towards lizo Arms Wide Open that song is playing Scott that's your right H yeah Creed yes ironically when lizo is around but then you jump into her arms and everything's better afterwards the Nautilus assist to pull up is goated yeah I don't believe they make it anymore it's one of those retro gyms we had to throw retro machines we had to

4:15 throw in one or two of these for you guys to be like Carmen San Diego up in this mug see if you can find Old School bodybuilding gyms have them Bez Francis had one I think yes but it gets rid of the two issues you run into which the vertical tracking path is obviously L one of them and the second one is that whether you're too tall or Too Short you run into one problem and that is either

4:35 you hit the bottom before the 4 in of motion or you hit the top before the 4in of motion yeah me and Mike literally have the opposite problems whenever we use a machine y so I'll be bottoming out the machine but I'm getting a good I'm getting all the way up so I'm like oh okay or I'm not getting all the way up and I'm not hitting the bottom the range of motion on the machine is so long so

4:53 long it's like you could be 7 foot2 and still get something you just don't really need to put attachments on cuz we always solve those issues with what you do with your is putting the bar yeah between some D handles and then yes you can actually but also it has a knee pad so you sit with your legs bent a lot of machines have the standing which also like unfortunately it like more degrees of freedom for you to lose Force Through

5:15 the way and it more unable yeah 100% this this fixes all those problems yeah it's a amazing machine next up is the Hoist chest press we're gonna get Flack for that for sure from people having feelings yeah people it's okay that you for some reason they go to Crunch hoist is the main line for crunch and most bodybuilders I talk to they're like I just hate the Hoist stuff it sucks and I'm like have you used the

5:47 chest press they're like yeah it sucks I'm like what what but they don't do the Deep thing that we do a lot I guess yeah it's amazing it is a scientific fact that the Hoist makes a moist who's them Fe females of reproductive age why is that important you pump up your pecs so that they can look in your direction but if they look in your direction and you've been using the Hoist chess press not only are your pecs plumptious

6:12 pumped for a variety of technical reasons we'll describe shortly but the women vibe off the machine too all of a sudden your chances of converting and that means going at a nice date with a nice girl increase go to a water park take it from me it's probably best it'll be a water park either way wherever you go as long as the Hoist machine is right with you I like the Hoist executives are watching this like oh a big fitness

6:32 channel talked about a machine and about about now they're like what the hell is wrong with that stupid bald guy in a stupid flaccid Mohawk alcoholic Factory working father nothing wrong with us that the Hoist chest press can't fix by the way that's right why Jared what do you like most about him the way that you move with the resistance profile is literally exactly how the strength curve should be for a muscle whenever you're training on a machine y it is it matches

6:58 perfectly deep stretch is amazing psychotic and then it gets easier as you press because you're also pushing back at the same time your body's moving away from that line of resistance it's it's it's literally the best chest press I've ever used and I don't know why people don't like it it really I bought one for my own gym like we have one now at the RP gym and so the the the depth that you're going to get

7:21 on that as far as stretch is like insane and obviously you can even modify the machine with more pads if you're real flexible or something it is really well loaded it's not one of these machines where like if you bench 500 for reps you're going to be able to do like three or four reps right yeah but for almost everyone of almost every strength including you and I yeah know it's a great machine it's just phenomenal it

7:44 also has adjustable handles you can do normal grip you can do 45 grip and you can even do they have a new one where it's like 90° grip it's a real trip so huge huge props and love to that machine next there are women in this world and I know this sounds crazy that have very very low standards for their

8:16 own sexual security let's call it their own Chastity that's right and we have a term for them Jared they're called ho I'm sorry that's they're called hello Jared hello Jared they're called hoose and there's only one thing to do to get women like that straightened up so they can behave better in society and it's Rose the only way to do rows for the hose Jared is the prime row Prime row Prime sorry to throw you under the

8:42 bus with dis disgusting analogy I don't even know where I come up with these things but the prime R is so goated they don't use steel they use plastic they don't use rubber it's literally all goat Parts yeah made physically from goats slaughtered at their Prime Only the strongest goats that's why it's called Prime and so why is this machine so amazing because if you put most of the plates on the top Peg Jared is part of a

9:12 political movement called hash top Peg only you put a small amount of Weights in the middle Peg just to get a little bit of resistance at the top zero weights on the bottom Peg or if you're going to do the bottom Peg very few weights nothing in the middle tons at the top what ends up happening is the force curve which they've architected beautifully is such that it's such a difficult machine at the stretch when you try to pull it you're like I can't

9:36 lift this much weight and somebody has to tell you like really ramp your Force so don't just pull pull and then pull and then pull harder and harder at some point it unclicks and then it gets so much easier at the very top you have this ability to just completely connect mind muscle with your back click the elbows back raise the chest get a crazy contraction and then pre-prep your elbows a massive Ecentric control you ride out the whole

10:01 Ecentric and as you ride it out and try to keep it to be not super slow but maybe two or 3 seconds it gets tougher and you have to rip your lats open trying to control it because it gets heavier and heavier on the way down it's I love that too because the Sensation that we're trying to cue and everybody that we train yes is exactly that and if you can feel the resistance picking up when we're telling you to

10:24 lean into the stretch and you have to resist it yes that's the exact thing we're trying to coach on most excises that weing and it just it's like an internal queuing from the machine and you immediately understand like oh that's what that means Che Cod it's awesome yeah yeah Prime row is really awesome the handles rotate so you don't have to be uncomfortable and it's actually really easy to get your Versa grips into the handles and then go

10:49 there's an adjustable chest plate chest pad so that if you're a tall King if you're a short King if you're a medium King all kings are welcome don't confuse yourself with the goat though CU there's only one the goat and that's the prime row and that is usually for Prime cam setting three is the deepen stretch cam setting one would be Peak contraction and the middle Peg or setting two is usually that like even resistance profile which is why we like

11:16 to load cam setting 3 with a little bit in the even resistance profile just for something on the concentric yeah basically Jared used to be a dictator back in the day he doesn't like to talk about it he liberated some political prisoners their name were their names were cam setting 3 cam setting 2 and cam setting one he told Cam setting 2 those are the government names yeah yeah that's we get he's like cam setting to

11:37 get out of here you're good you're free the guy's like are you sure he's like go he kept calling my name was Jim the whole time the whole time he's good he ran off cam setting 3 was given a castle at a billion dollars and made a masc out of the country I really like the guy it's great guy cam setting one you pulled out your ceremonial sidearm pistol and just went that's it he's gone and Camp 73 is like

12:02 he was liberated in a different kind of way don't worry liberated from the burden of having to make decisions ever again and you won't have to make decisions either people because our next machine you don't have to make a decision CU it does it all the free motion machine is by a company called free motion and the Machine is Free Motion I'm kidding I'm sure they have a model name that no one cares or gives a

12:32 about why you would say if you took this clip out of context no one gives a about the freemotion model machine you know the model name you'd be like oh he's talking smack about freemotion no no no no what kind of music did Michael Jackson make doesn't matter was the best what kind of lifting can you do in a freemotion machine the kind of lifting that is limited only by your imagination you can slide a bench to it

13:00 get presses going you can slide a bench and get lat stuff going every tricep movement you can think of every Bice movement you can think of if you're training your delts with anything other than dumbbells every kind of delt movement cross body delts front raises y raises it just does not end the freemotion modern most modern machine because you'll see some of these older ones in the gym they're still good the most modern freeo motion machine is like

13:25 why don't you have one at your gym is my only question to you% and and listen if you're not a wealthy King if you're a medium income King look the machine costs some money but it also does like a 100 exercises it's cheaper than a cable system it's cheaper than a cable system and don't tell anyone it's better than a cable system so and also because it's one machine no one can bully you and say can I work it on the other side there's

13:47 only one side get out of my face don't say that to people at the gym but if you have your own free motion machine you can just cuddle it all night long and its arms can be positioned by you to wrap you around that's true have you ever slept inside of a free motion's loving Embrace yeah of course I love you Jared that's it de handles are hanging down one hand up one hand down you're like free motion

14:11 machine I I mean we knew each other but next up one of Jared's favorites the Axiom Life Fitness slanted Smith how many more names does a machine like that need that's a good question I assume axum is the line but Life Fitness slanted Smith goes all the way to the floor which is the problem you run into with Smith machines it's slanted for a reason as well slanted machines are just better than the ones better they more

14:39 naturally replicate the arcs of motion that your body wants to get into incline presses are not supposed to be done vertically they're supposed to be done in an arc rows squats good mornings I'm just going to stop every exercise is like the Skull Crushers so this if you just with the last two exercises only had those two things in a gym you could basically do everything Planet Smith by Life Fitness axium and then the free motion like you need a couple of couple

15:09 of dumbbells and you're straight yeah like the Smith is my favorite thing to go my favorite go-to for pressing I do a lot of bent rose on it my favorite glute exercise ever is the one that I do on the Smith machine with most people which is front foot elevated lunge or whatever you want to call reverse lunge you can whatever name you want to put on it we can make up a name for the RP

15:30 strength front foot elevated super slow pistol lunge Jared feather Jared feather like the lunge should go after Jared feather like no it's different like that different yeah best machine best machine amazing so another thing is has a very it's very smooth Arc it has a very thin bar I was going to say the bars on a lot of those Smith machines the Life Fitness ones especially the are those thck four bro are ogres training on the how am I supposed to grip it

15:58 with my hands if I can't grip it with my hand to to quote was it cardi B no who was that other young African-American woman with lots of fake stuff on her body Nicki Minaj said you couldn't fudge Michael Kors if you were fudging Michael Kors don't worry that'll make sense if you think about it less hard than you are now you can't do rose on a Smith machine because the is too thick you're not even gonna be

16:26 fudging Michael Kors even though he's next to you doing the axium machine and having the time of his life the other thing is Jared said earlier it lets you go all the way to the ground with the bar there are lots of Smiths that legit stop three feet above and I'm like so did you guys forget that stiff-legged deadlifts Rose and like rack pulls can be done from a Smith machine to incredible effect but just you just

16:50 didn't care didn't know jar do you remember going to Philly and doing bent row on the Smith machine standing on a bench yeah folks that is not a stable place stand it's really annoying and so with this machine you can just do full spectrum everything including probably standing barbell presses if you'd like you can slide a bench in there and have lots of fun with your friends next up is a machine that's

17:20 quite honestly a little dangerous I was having a few doubts putting in on this list it is the belt squat by pit shark and why is it dangerous well pitbulls are very nice animals when raised properly but a lot of them are just mean mean mean and let me say to you here total transparency Jared sharks don't really have a nice mode do they no what do sharks primarily do with their time eat people that's it they eat Surfers for

17:48 sure old ladies on rafts that's what they love the most and so before getting one and I actually do have one it's going to be installed soon it's just sitting in my G garage it's been smoking cigarettes for a long time not just waiting we bought it a few cartons remember he used to come back from the factory and start smoking a carton all at the same time Y and I put him out on you and I had it

18:11 coming your back's up from that yeah but I'm tell you I I saw I see the scars I felt them but are they scars or are they more like the beautiful tapestry of my life story with all my imperfections all right Lumen he actually said he doesn't like human imperfections I'm talking about tapestry tapestries are cool the pit shark is an amazing belt squat machine there are other really great belt squat machines but the pit shark has a triple

18:41 setting for you if you want to be close medium or far it accommodates every body size it also accommodates the fact that with minimum or no modification you can have the machine be maximally heavy at the bottom of a belt Squat and very light at the top that's so huge because it perfectly replicates a force curve stimulus fatigue ratio it's really hard to beat many of the models of the pit shark include a dip and pull-up station

19:04 if you're a strong enough King to need the belt on dips and pull-ups yeah it gives you a shitload of like straight leg deadlifts and good morning type variations any hip hinging on there yes rowing bent rowing anything you can clip in you can do it like you said Mak the resistance profile is hardest at the bottom 100% every single one of those is exactly it's awesome just keep your limbs away from it because well PS and sharks tend to

19:37 bite the Arsenal leg press is a near clone of the nebula leg press from back in the day M and it actually is better than the nebula because I've used both back toback the plate angle is a little better on the Arsenal the seat slid a little bit more forward giving you that big ROM with minimal modification for some people no modification at all the Arsenal leg press feels like Silk and butter not having sex no no no they're making love

20:07 to each other in your knees yeah it is one of the only pieces of Arsenal equipment I like I knew you were going to say that I was going to keep the love flowing but Jerry has the red lightsaber for a reason it is Arsenal you guys are great I like the hardcore elements of your machine I don't love everything about them but Arsenal is a great brand check it out their leg press is again physically made of dried up and

20:30 congealed goat Parts yes but it's a beautiful piece of equipment the backpad adjust all basically most of the way down not to where you're like lying on the ground or anything but as low as you need it for getting that full Ring Of Motion cu the biggest issue with most leg presses they're locked in one place there's no adjustment and it's like a very weird incline to where you just you can't go all the way down it rounds your back it

20:56 rounds your back immediately even with some added padding like we like to do which brings me to my next Point American barbell is making a leg press at the moment which you will see in gyms very soon that has lumbar support to help you with the rounding of the lower back and the fully adjustable backpad that can go basically all the way to the ground that's a big deal just all the way up and down it is a beautiful piece

21:20 of equipment next Jared I've noticed something in our list oh God this is going to be tough to admit there's been a bit of nationalism on this channel not the fun kind and maybe even a little racism too Canada yeah Canada's really just America really to be honest here oh but we've got kilometers and centigrade yeah and like

21:50 what do you think Canada's just a part of them Erica I mean you just don't know geography all right Jordan pet stay calm Jordan just hit us up last night he was like I really don't like the fact that you've completely alienated and excluded the people the peoples of the Korean Peninsula from this list oh and so we had to fix that the new tech side delt raise machine is dope you guys new Tech's a new brand I guess that's in the name

22:22 it's from Korea they make really cool stuff do you like Samsung things that's where new Tech's the same Factory think and by Factory I mean the nation of South Korea yeah we were looking for a list of North Korean machines and we unfortunately ran into the fact that the fitness culture is both inaccessible economically and illegal in North Korea and they'd actually don't make any machines whatsoever outside of really just military industry which also sucks so South Korea is going to have to take

22:48 the flag and run with it on this one but the new tech lateral race is amazing one of the things they have in it which I've just never seen on any other machine the top strap so when you have a lateral race you guys hold the supports now with Versa grips this is problem solved but you forget them sometimes you forget them also with enough sets you kind of have to readjust a little bit sometimes if it's a crappy machine a lot some of

23:10 the shoulder rais machines like your vers don't seem like they do anything because the machine rotates you right out of your versus bad stuff not going to say whose machine that was but bad stuff the new tech machine has a top strap so you just actually slide your fingers under it adjust it really tightly and then like the top strap just holds down your hand you can literally just point your fingers out let your thumb be loose and just totally connect

23:34 with your side delts my muscle connection Force production stability shoulder pain it just checks every single box in the best possible way yeah it's one of the only standing laterals that I've so far I've trained at torture for two years now I've never seen it out of order so it's very well built dope yeah I've always you know I've walked into a few gyms the On's at lvac for sure I guess those are older but it's

24:00 just sturdy it's a good piece of equipment not a lot of moving Parts the like the Korean people s are 300 lb nobody will ever use right Jared n use like 120 to 150 and so Jared's shoulders are the size of whatever God it's dope Vibes guys next up on this list our last of the top 10 machines we recommend you try

24:31 before a little bonus so stay tuned is going to be the panata lying leg curl and I introduced it all wrong Scott let's not re-record this but I just have to make a Clarity a clarification my part not it's a not panata it's a panata come on every time I use any other machine that's not a panata machine and I know panata has a great machine yeah that I could be using instead I look over to my left and a magical Italian

24:57 fairy man appears looking exactly like Luigi from Mar and Luigi was in Mario basically and he's like oh why you know he at the and I'm like oh man but I'm on a low carb diet and I want pasta he's like oh why you not have a grandma sauce and Italian jokes aside Italians love in respect the panat Ling leg curl Jared why does it compel you so I very much enjoy this machine because it goes much

25:24 beyond the range emotion of most lying leg curls it has the lying pad such that you kind of have that hip Arch uhhuh and at the very bottom of the range of motion you're experiencing a shitload of tension and basically unable to hit the select Arizer stack because you have to kind of Wee yourself into the machine yeah yeah it's so basically the forces are completely maximized at the bottom and you'll never hit a force unloading point

25:53 right which means stimulus to fatigue ratio is nuts super insane the raw stimulus magnitude is extra nuts three sets of 15 to 20 reps on that machine your hamstrings are going bye-bye whereas many other not so great machines you know what I'm saying you're going to have to be there for a little bit five six sets to get the same it's said man they make a lot of amazing Industrial Products in Italy Lamborghini Bugatti a Pagani and panata and a panata

26:24 but a panata better than all of those because you can drive to the in a nice car but your workout sucks you go panata hamstrings is so big you jump to your gym you don't need a Bugatti you get the big hamstring and now eat the grandma cheese she made it for you with her own blood you know how they always get to that part Dracula real quick well your Dracula's Romanian it's basically the same thing are you into Romanian girls

26:53 no Scott I don't even have to ask you she's shut up back there Jerry has the full force of the Jerry and he has a little bonus round here with Jerry's machines that didn't make the list but during the negotiations after we ran out of 10 machines and I said I think that's it Jared turned on his red lightsaber yeah I got really mad Star Wars music came out of nowhere I have I love it keep going

27:36 so because hate is something we don't do all love here is Jerry's bonus round the panata standing total arm yeah what is that it sounds made up it's an completely adjustable arm machine where you can do curls there's tons of attachments you can do push Downs it's basically the stacks here you can move it up and down or the adjusters here down selector rizer you say you hate it but I think you would like it if you

28:05 cuz you can when I said I hated it I was just being caddy with you Jared it's a good machine it's not my number one go-to but that's why it's on Jerry's bonus list yeah I just like it because you can do both and it's like amazing for super sets yeah you can adjust it such that the handle comes way in so when you are doing like like elbow out in front of you curls the tension that you experience in the

28:27 bottom is is absolutely insane it's a very comfortable grip too yeah it's very comfortable and amazing for push Downs the push Downs are sweet too you can really lean into them super stable cuz the cable does this this machine doesn't do any of that totally that's why I like it's just a cool it's a cool machine that if you see it in a gym and you're should I put it in should I use it yeah give it a shot cuz it's nice it

28:48 has good resistance profiles and stuff yeah that's dope the prime preacher curl machine yes when people do preacher curls they often do this thing where they put their front delts over the pad too far instead of Leaning away from it and pulling the front do back but whenever you can use the cam setting on a three no matter how much you push your front outt forward that shit's still getting hard still super hard at the

29:18 bottom which is what you want it's exactly what you want like you feel like your biceps going to blow off it's insane so when the set gets hard and you do start to experience where you're shoulders going forward it doesn't matter you're you're still going to experience the most force in the bottom of that movement and the most the prime stuff you're able to select the three cam setting like we said and it's just it's better it's amazing yeah yeah and

29:42 I'm just a big fan of one-arm creacher Cs so yeah they can hit your biceps with a real mind muscle connection I kind of nothing else can yeah the prime prime is just getting love and they deserve it it's a unbelievable equipment company Prime elected flat chest press machine I used it at Raw when I went and train with Nick Walker it gave me the best pump I've ever had in my life

30:12 whoa yeah is it tough at the bottom and yeah so they have five cam settings on that one what yeah so you chose number five I assume I think three is still the deepest stretch okay five is some weird like mid-range I don't know not exactly but like right the Deep so then it like lets off a little bit at the deepest you don't want so you put it on three still but it oh my God man what we like

30:38 about the Hoist everything about the Hoist that we like it's that so it also makes them moist yeah it makes them very moist and it's very deep it has like you have to push down to get it all the way off zero shoulder pain zero elbow pain it converges just a tad oh nice yeah it's it's it was a beautiful how are the handles they have both so all options amazing folks I hope this has been

31:05 informative if you confused about what machines to use just go in there and start trying stuff if you know your stuff and one of these machines pops up warm up really well get some quality sets in you probably won't regret it if you want to track your workouts you can actually type in the kind of machine and make it its own exercise in the RP hypertrophy app and look we have no formal affiliation with Scott any of

31:29 these companies' been by before but they ain't paying us now I'm kidding Atlantis you guys are great so yeah these are just awesome machines there are tons more we're not saying that these are better than other machines these are just the ones we like give him a shot and if you get enormous and super successful and have a CEO chest I don't know then throw us some money Jared's getting skinny yeah we need to buy money buy food so we can

31:56 have money to eat I've been doctor whatever and see you never again bye