Glad to read these reviews as I almost bought one of these recently, never thinking that they would have 'side effects'!! Guess that is why I am not an engineer and why Joe Weider was a marketing genius!!! It's obvious that you could get the same benefit from a preacher bench.
I always got a good pump from doing curls with that thing and when I finished the workout I always had a really cool looking big red mark across my rib cage!! Yikes!
I always found, that I could not use very much weight resistance with it? The strap would cut into the back of my neck and traps and also caused my rib cage to be pushed in... which made me unable to breathe or use an increased amount of weight?
Still...the photo made me purchase one. The biggest thing that bodybuilding has sold me... was hope!
Yikes!
