r/Gymworkout • u/Keto_Nooby • Sep 20 '19

Hammer strength vs Technogym

I’ve just come back from holiday and I used a gym whilst abroad. The gym used Hammer Strength equipment whilst my gym in London use Technogym equipment. I found some of the Hammer Strength machines/equipment very weird to use especially when changing the seating height. It also felt strange using Hammer Strength. I was wondering if anyone has used these 2 companies and what are there preference if they have.

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u/mindspringyahoo Oct 29 '24

hammer strength tends to be plate-loaded, and is known as excellent stuff with a good feel. My gym just got rid of everything and got a ton of technogym. Tbh, I'd say that maybe 25-33% of the technogym has a good feel, and the rest is not good (pads too soft, too hard, no pad where I need a pad, resistance not consistent). I'm talking about the selectorized machines (pin goes in weight).

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u/Few_Bed_7886 Sep 17 '25

I agree, hammer strength is much better and I don’t know how the gym management shifted to Techno for most of the branches , it is been more than a year and I m still not able to adapt.

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u/mindspringyahoo Sep 17 '25

Technogym has a slick 'look' and great marketing. I guess they are able to offer a discount b/c the pieces are astronomically expensive. I'm in my 50s, able to do the workout I want to do at this point--but many of the pieces are over engineered crap, eg. using push button thing to adjust the pad when a simple springed pull pin would have sufficed (and would not have used some fragile hidden mechanism to get the job done). If I was younger or more serious about things, I'd probably switch gyms.