{"id":6895,"date":"2016-12-14T11:27:31","date_gmt":"2016-12-14T17:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.personaltrainersindallas.com\/?p=6895"},"modified":"2021-07-18T16:59:14","modified_gmt":"2021-07-18T21:59:14","slug":"review-of-hoist-mi7-smith-ensemble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newwavefitness.com\/blog\/review-of-hoist-mi7-smith-ensemble\/","title":{"rendered":"Review of Hoist Mi7 Smith Ensemble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hut says this is the best Smith system he&#8217;s ever seen&#8230;and that counts for a lot, coming from a superstar athlete who has used his fair share of fitness equipment!<\/p>\n<p>Craig &amp; Hut also reviewed the Hoist Functional Trainer, which can pair with the Hoist Mi7 \u00a0Smith Ensemble&#8230;or they can stand on their own.<\/p>\n<p>Watch their video review\u00a0here:<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/236829323\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hut:<\/strong> This is Hut Allred from New Wave Fitness here with Craig Lewin. How are you doing?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Craig:<\/strong>\u00a0Hello! Good. How are you?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hut:\u00a0<\/strong>Mr. Busy Body and Fitness Headquarters.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Craig:<\/strong>\u00a0That&#8217;s right. We\u2019re at Fitness Headquarters today. Pretty exciting, up here in Frisco, Texas, to talk about this Hoist Mi7 Smith Machine.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hut:<\/strong> Yes. This is really cool because it\u2019s an attachment that goes with the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Hoist\u00a0Functional Trainer<\/span>, which we\u2019ll add to this video a link so you can\u00a0go check that out. It\u2019s really cool how you can add it to the Functional Trainer or it\u2019s just a standalone product.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Craig:<\/strong> That\u2019s what\u2019s amazing about Hoist. They really make it to where you can put things together, you can split them up if you need to, just depending on what the need is. This Smith machine is just incredible, even if it\u2019s just a Smith machine by itself.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a very small cage. It doesn\u2019t take up a lot of space at all, which is awesome. The big thing with this is the technology of the Smith aspect of it. This Smith free floats. What\u2019s amazing is I can literally take this out.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hut:<\/strong> I\u2019ve never seen anything like that.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Craig:<\/strong> I\u2019m (indiscernible) back and forth and it\u2019s incredible. Now what\u2019s happen is I have the safety of a Smith but if I go in and do my squats I have the same feel as if I\u2019m doing free weights.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hut:<\/strong> Yes, you have that instability. It\u2019s not stuck. That\u2019s huge.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Craig:<\/strong> Exactly. It\u2019s amazing. You can wrap it out back here or you can wrap it out coming forward.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hut:<\/strong> I\u2019ve never seen anything like this before. This is unreal.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Craig:<\/strong> It\u2019s amazing. It\u2019s the most incredible Smith machine. You can do so much with it. You can throw a bench in here, obviously, do your flat incline\/decline bench press. Doing the bench press with that free-floating design where it really follows your natural motion, it makes a huge difference.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hut:<\/strong> That\u2019s great. Then you have all the safety stuff here. If you want to bring it up and create that safety zone for yourself\u2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>Craig:<\/strong> Exactly. You have the safeties built in so if there\u2019s ever any\u2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hut:<\/strong> It looks like they\u2019re pretty easy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Craig:<\/strong> They\u2019re really simple. They just pop off and you can adjust it up and down. It makes that really easy to do. The other thing that\u2019s really cool too is you can get in and drop the bar down. You can do shoulder shrugs. You can do lifts. That\u2019s what\u2019s great.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hut:<\/strong> Woo!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Craig:<\/strong> Hut, do that again.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hut:<\/strong>\u00a0Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Craig:<\/strong> You can\u2019t do that with a regular (indiscernible).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hut:<\/strong> This is great for athletes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Craig:<\/strong> It really is, yes. In fact, we have a lot of Cowboy players, because we\u2019re in Dallas, who have purchased this, and a lot of the Mavericks players. We have sold these Mi7 Smith ensembles to a lot of them. The only reason I say that is just because they want something that they can really put a decent amount of weight now and they want something that\u2019s functional for the type of exercise that they\u2019re used to.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hut:\u00a0<\/strong>I would have to say this is the best Smith machine I\u2019ve ever seen.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Craig:<\/strong> That\u2019s a lot coming from Mr. Running Back. I\u2019ve been watching a lot of his videos from 20 years ago, when he was doing his thing at North Texas, pretty fun. It\u2019s true. It feels incredible. First of all, the smoothness of it is amazing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hut:<\/strong> This is unreal, man.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Craig:<\/strong> You can do bicep curls.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hut:<\/strong> You can do that.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Craig:<\/strong> How would you do that in a regular set?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hut:<\/strong> You don\u2019t. You can\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Craig:<\/strong> You can\u2019t do it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hut:<\/strong> Wow.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Craig:<\/strong> I\u2019ll tell you another one which is really cool. If you lay a bench in there, you can do skull crushers with it. Literally, behind your head and you can do skill crushers. It\u2019s incredible.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hut:<\/strong> Unreal.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Craig:<\/strong> They\u2019ve really done a good job.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hut:\u00a0<\/strong>You have to come check this out. If you are into fixed position presses, Olympic lifts and you want to have something at your home that is safe, wow! This is unreal. This is awesome.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Craig:<\/strong> I think Hut likes it. I\u2019m kind of excited.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hut:<\/strong> I think this is the most excited I\u2019ve been.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Craig:<\/strong> I like to put him on the spot and not tell him anything about the piece of equipment before we go live on these things so I can see if it\u2019s genuine excitement or not. This is genuine excitement. I\u2019m pretty pumped up about this.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hut:<\/strong> This is really cool<\/p>\n<p><strong>Craig:<\/strong> It\u2019s a great piece of equipment. It\u2019s in all of our Fitness HQ stores and our Fitness Outlet stores you can see all over Dallas. Just go to FitnessHeadquarters.com. Even if you are watching this video and you\u2019re not anywhere in Dallas, you\u2019re not of the area and you just want some information about it, feel free to reach out to us. We\u2019re happy to give you advice and put you together with whoever your local dealer is if you\u2019re calling from another state. We\u2019re here to help you guys.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hut:<\/strong> This is cool. Come check it out. Again, this is an attachment that goes with the Mi7 Functional Trainer. We\u2019ll add a link to that video to this. It\u2019ll be on our blog. Check it out. It\u2019s awesome. Take care, y&#8217;all.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hut says this is the best Smith system he&#8217;s ever seen&#8230;and that counts for a lot, coming from a superstar athlete who has used his fair share of fitness equipment! Craig &amp; Hut also reviewed the Hoist Functional Trainer, which can pair with the Hoist Mi7 \u00a0Smith Ensemble&#8230;or they can stand on their own. 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