What is your favorite machine at the gym?

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  • KatyP86
    KatyP86 Posts: 164 Member
    Arc trainer, elliptical, and treadmill ..
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,168 Member
    Rowing machine, but only when the river is frozen. (I concede that the river is not in the gym. But the rowing shell is still my favorite machine of all.)
  • sarahkanzalone
    sarahkanzalone Posts: 192 Member
    Rowing machine is my favorite at this point in my fitness journey I can't go for very long but someday I'm going to have a serious rowing session.... Then arc and bike depending on how my foot is feeling
  • xbowhunter
    xbowhunter Posts: 1,223 Member
    Stair master by far. I love it but lately my right knee hates it so I had to cool it & do other things for now... LOL
  • StealthHealth
    StealthHealth Posts: 2,417 Member
    CalorieCountChocula wrote: »
    Smith Machine!

    Yes, I like the fact that my gym has a Smith Machine also! It ensures that the squat rack is more likely to be free.
  • StealthHealth
    StealthHealth Posts: 2,417 Member
    TheRoadDog wrote: »
    Vending Machine

    ^^for the win.
  • Meganthedogmom
    Meganthedogmom Posts: 1,639 Member
    I like the leg press.
  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 11,533 Member
    Machine preacher curl. I have a bad habit of leaning backwards during standing curls, but preachers let me keep better form.
  • ellieliam9796
    ellieliam9796 Posts: 38 Member
    toabetterlifestyle wrote: »
    I love the arc trainer. It's the only machine I can do on for hours at a time without dying and gasping for air!
    I also use the elliptical and the stationary bike. I do intervals on the treadmill, and the other day I started warming up on the stair master.
    Do you have any recommendations for machines to use at the gym? What is your favorite?

    Rowing machine! It's not at all tiring yet you can burn so many calories fast
  • tincanonastring
    tincanonastring Posts: 3,944 Member
    Another vote for the squat rack.
  • StealthHealth
    StealthHealth Posts: 2,417 Member
    Squat rack is not a machine.
  • tincanonastring
    tincanonastring Posts: 3,944 Member
    StealthHealth wrote: »
    Squat rack is not a machine.

    Says who?
  • StealthHealth
    StealthHealth Posts: 2,417 Member
    tincanonastring wrote: »
    StealthHealth wrote: »
    Squat rack is not a machine.

    Says who?

    To be pedantic...

    Mirriam Webster

    Simple Definition of machine
    : a piece of equipment with moving parts that does work when it is given power from electricity, gasoline, etc.
    : a vehicle (such as a car or motorcycle)
    : a person or group that does something efficiently, quickly, or repeatedly like a machine

    Oxford English

    An apparatus using mechanical power and having several parts, each with a definite function and together performing a particular task:
    a fax machine
    1.1 [WITH MODIFIER] A coin-operated dispenser:
    a cigarette machine
    1.2 technical Any device that transmits a force or directs its application.
    1.3An efficient and well-organized group of powerful people:
    the party’s fund-raising is helping it to build a formidable political machine
  • CrabNebula
    CrabNebula Posts: 1,119 Member
    edited March 2016
    Right now, treadmill, particularly for the trail running programs. But the rower is easier on my right knee, so I had to add that back into my cardio routine.
  • tincanonastring
    tincanonastring Posts: 3,944 Member
    StealthHealth wrote: »
    tincanonastring wrote: »
    StealthHealth wrote: »
    Squat rack is not a machine.

    Says who?

    To be pedantic...

    Mirriam Webster

    Simple Definition of machine
    : a piece of equipment with moving parts that does work when it is given power from electricity, gasoline, etc.
    : a vehicle (such as a car or motorcycle)
    : a person or group that does something efficiently, quickly, or repeatedly like a machine

    Oxford English

    An apparatus using mechanical power and having several parts, each with a definite function and together performing a particular task:
    a fax machine
    1.1 [WITH MODIFIER] A coin-operated dispenser:
    a cigarette machine
    1.2 technical Any device that transmits a force or directs its application.
    1.3An efficient and well-organized group of powerful people:
    the party’s fund-raising is helping it to build a formidable political machine

    I...I know. I was messing around.
  • tatilove1988
    tatilove1988 Posts: 330 Member
    My exercise of choice is running, but I simply hate the treadmill. Even though I do it when I can't go outside, so I guess we can say it's the equipment I love to hate.

    The machine that I do love and gets my heart pumping is the stepper. I burn more calories on it than when I'm running outside.
  • Danny_Boy13
    Danny_Boy13 Posts: 2,094 Member
    The only machines I use is the Hammer Strength Incline Press and calf Raise Machine. Other then that I am just barbell and dumbbells. So with that said I guess the Hammer Strength Incline Press
  • jessef593
    jessef593 Posts: 2,272 Member
    StealthHealth wrote: »
    tincanonastring wrote: »
    StealthHealth wrote: »
    Squat rack is not a machine.

    Says who?

    To be pedantic...

    Mirriam Webster

    Simple Definition of machine
    : a piece of equipment with moving parts that does work when it is given power from electricity, gasoline, etc.
    : a vehicle (such as a car or motorcycle)
    : a person or group that does something efficiently, quickly, or repeatedly like a machine

    Oxford English

    An apparatus using mechanical power and having several parts, each with a definite function and together performing a particular task:
    a fax machine
    1.1 [WITH MODIFIER] A coin-operated dispenser:
    a cigarette machine
    1.2 technical Any device that transmits a force or directs its application.
    1.3An efficient and well-organized group of powerful people:
    the party’s fund-raising is helping it to build a formidable political machine

    There always has to be that one guy. People are just having fun, you must've missed my comment about the dumbbell rack.
  • FitPhillygirl
    FitPhillygirl Posts: 7,124 Member
    singingflutelady wrote: »
    Not a machine but the squat rack/cage

    This is my favorite as well and the first thing I go to at the gym.
  • MIGHTYMOUSE187
    MIGHTYMOUSE187 Posts: 60 Member
    I think i am good with whatever I'm using that day. Stay motivated...
  • kelly_e_montana
    kelly_e_montana Posts: 1,999 Member
    I am my favorite machine in the gym and my favorite place to be is in the squat rack.
  • HeidiMightyRawr
    HeidiMightyRawr Posts: 3,343 Member
    Not really a machine, but fave piece of equipment - the squat rack! :D
  • tugsandpulls760
    tugsandpulls760 Posts: 206 Member
    toabetterlifestyle wrote: »
    I love the arc trainer. It's the only machine I can do on for hours at a time without dying and gasping for air!
    I also use the elliptical and the stationary bike. I do intervals on the treadmill, and the other day I started warming up on the stair master.
    Do you have any recommendations for machines to use at the gym? What is your favorite?

    The snack machine.( joking) treadmill
  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 48,974 Member
    edited March 2016
    If it's a machine, it's the one with all sorts of cable exercises (cable crossover, row, tricep pressdown, lat pulldown)
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  • ja20102004
    ja20102004 Posts: 349 Member
    TheRoadDog wrote: »
    Vending Machine
    can't stop laughing!

  • ja20102004
    ja20102004 Posts: 349 Member
    Chest press
  • Buff_Man
    Buff_Man Posts: 623 Member
    The Barbell B)
  • singingflutelady
    singingflutelady Posts: 8,736 Member
    kelly_e_montana wrote: »
    I am my favorite machine in the gym and my favorite place to be is in the squat rack.

    Love this
  • mlindeman0002
    mlindeman0002 Posts: 7 Member
    Not a machine, but I love using a barbell for hip thrusts!
  • Lesley2603
    Lesley2603 Posts: 119 Member
    I love the med ball especially when I get to throw it in the direction of my trainer
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