Hip Press

went back and forth for a while between getting a Cybex leg press or the Rogers Hip Press and ended up going with the Hip Press. First thing I noticed is how comfortable it is on my lower back. The seat has a ton of adjustment too, so you can really dial in the ROM for pretty much any body size. Like most Rogers/Pendulum stuff it’s also built like an absolute tank. I like that you can play around with foot placement quite a bit depending on what you want to hit more. Higher/lower and wider/narrower positions can shift where you feel it between the quads, glutes, adductors, etc. The resistance curve is interesting too. To me it feels pretty challenging coming out of the bottom, eases up some through the midrange, and then gets harder again as you get closer to the top. Rogers actually engineered a variable strength curve into the machine rather than giving it the more basic resistance curve you get on a traditional leg press. My biggest wish would be separate loading horns that let you manipulate the resistance curve. If I could add or take away resistance specifically at different parts of the movement, similar to what Prime does with their adjustable resistance profiles, this thing would be on another level. Honestly wish Prime would scrap their horrid leg press and make their version of a Hip Press with that system. That would probably be an easy S tier for me. As it sits, I have this somewhere right on the border between B and A tier.

Extremely good hip press. It would not be my first choice of those currently being manufactured, but this is definitely in the top 3-4 and you’d have no regrets getting this. Good adjustability, good ROM, and feels great overall.

Very nice and comfortable movement in my opinion. I use my adductors a lot when squatting so I enjoy this movement and like that it hits my quads a little bit more. Not as quad dominant as a traditional leg press. I wish the foot plate was a little bit longer. This thing eats plates but is not the biggest plate eater I have used.

Amazing alternative to a leg press. I always felt this a ton more in my adductors (in a good way) and because you're sitting upright its easy on your lower back