Gym equipment at Mas Body Gym
Every machine here was chosen for a reason. Mike Hind MBE picks the kit one piece at a time, tests it with the team and only keeps what earns its floor space: nearly 40 resistance stations from Panatta, Nautilus, Hammer Strength, Life Fitness, Hoist, Precor, Skelcore, Technogym, Watson and Predator Strength, four adjustable cable stations, Hammer Strength dumbbells from 2kg to 60kg, and an official HYROX floor with Concept2 rowers and SkiErgs, air bikes and Panatta Eco Power Runners. See how Mike puts it to work in his guide to how we train for muscle.
- Nearly 40 resistance stations
- Dumbbells to 60kg
- Official HYROX floor
- Recovery room included
Every machine is listed below by body part, with a short note on what it is for. Jump to a section: racks and benches, chest, back, shoulders, arms, legs, core, cables and attachments, bars and plates, HYROX area, cardio and the recovery room. Inventory checked 23 September 2026; photos are added as they come in.
Racks, Smith machine and benches
The barbell end of the gym. A Nautilus squat rack, a counterbalanced Nautilus Smith machine, four adjustable Nautilus benches and a decline sit-up bench, with landmines for angled pressing and rowing.
Nautilus squat rack
A proper commercial rack with safeties set where you need them, so you can squat and press heavy on your own and bail out of a bad rep without a spotter. No flex in it under a top set.
Nautilus Smith Machine
Counterbalanced, so the bar starts light and runs dead true. It is the machine that lets you chase failure on squats, presses, hip thrusts and Bulgarian splits when balance would have stopped you first.
Nautilus adjustable benches (four)
Four of them, flat through to upright. A gym this size normally has two, which is why you are always waiting for one. Here you are not.
Life Fitness decline sit-up bench
Commercial Life Fitness build on a bench most gyms leave out altogether. Weighted sit-ups, decline crunches and decline dumbbell pressing, with the leg rollers set to your height.
Landmines
Drop an Olympic bar into a landmine and you unlock angled presses, Meadows rows, T-bar rows and rotational core work that a straight bar simply cannot do. Two of them, always free.
Chest
Two Panatta presses, a fixed-plane Nautilus press, the rare Gen 1 ten-degree fly and two peak-contraction flyes, so every part of the chest is covered without needing a spotter.
Panatta Incline Chest Press
Panatta is the Italian kit you find in the best bodybuilding gyms in Europe, and there is a reason for that. Back flat on the pad, the arc already set for the upper chest, so you can press to absolute failure with nobody standing over you.
Nautilus Nitro Chest Press
The fixed path takes the wobble out, so every rep loads the chest in the same place and the shoulders stay where they should be. This is the press to use when your shoulders have had enough of the barbell.
Nautilus Gen 1 Incline Fly
The rarest machine on our floor. Nautilus stopped building the Gen 1 line a long time ago and a ten-degree incline fly in this condition almost never comes up for sale. Those ten degrees are the whole point: the tension stays on the upper chest through a full stretch and holds right through the squeeze, which a flat pec dec cannot do. Train on it while you can.
Hoist Pec Fly and Rear Delt
A 141kg stack, seven seat heights and Hoist swivelling handles that rotate as you go, so you set your own arc instead of fighting the machine. Chest fly one way, rear delts the other, on one frame.
Skelcore Multi Flight
Counterbalanced arms on a gas-assisted cart with a pivot point you can move. That means one machine gives you a chest fly, a rear delt fly and a lat-style pull with the line of pull set to your build, not the average build.
Life Fitness Assisted Dip and Pull-up
Counterweighted, so a complete beginner gets a real dip and a real pull-up in their first week, and everyone else can slow the reps right down and still reach failure.
Back and pulling
Width from the pulldown, the high row and pull-ups; thickness from the linear row and cable rows on the Watson and Technogym pulleys with the Rock-It and MAG grip handles.
Life Fitness Lat Pulldown
Smooth commercial stack with the premium Rock-It and MAG grip handles on it, wide and close. Those handles are what let you pull with your back instead of hanging on with your hands.
Panatta High Row
Chest supported, so your lower back is completely out of it and every bit of effort goes into the lats. The vertical pull path is the closest thing to a pull-up you can load precisely.
Skelcore Linear Row
Seated with a back pad and a multigrip handle, so wide, neutral and close grips all happen on one machine without changing stations. Runs on linear rails to 150kg, so it stays smooth when it is loaded up.
Life Fitness Assisted Pull-up
Pull-ups and chin-ups from your very first rep through to full bodyweight, with the counterweight coming off a little at a time.
Skelcore Multi Flight (lat pull)
Set the rotation centres high and it is a standing straight-arm pull: full stretch on the lats at the top, hard squeeze at the bottom, and a line of pull you can move to suit your build. Nothing else on the floor loads the lats from that angle.
Shoulders
Heavy pressing on the Panatta seated shoulder press or with dumbbells. Side delts get cable laterals on the Watson DAPs and the Technogym pulleys, and rear delts are covered by the Hoist rear fly, the Skelcore Multi Flight and face pulls.
Panatta Seated Shoulder Press
Back supported, the arc set, and plates you can load one side at a time. It is the safest way there is to press heavy overhead on your own, and Panatta build it like a tank.
Hoist Rear Delt Fly
Rear delts are the muscle everybody skips and everybody needs. Swivel the Hoist handles round and you have a dedicated reverse fly with eleven start positions.
Skelcore Multi Flight (rear delt fly)
Move the pivots behind you and the same machine becomes a standing rear delt fly with the arc set where your shoulder actually is. Nothing to sit on, so the rear delts do the work rather than a pad holding you in place.
Hammer Strength dumbbells, 2kg to 60kg
A complete Hammer Strength rack in 2kg steps, all the way to 60kg. Not a gap in it, not a broken one on the floor, plus Nike and HYROX dumbbells for the functional work.
Arms
Two dedicated bicep machines, dips for heavy triceps, and the cables, EZ bars and rotating curl bar for everything else.
Nautilus 2ST Preacher Curl
The fixed preacher arc puts the biceps under load at the bottom, where free weights go easy on you. Short head bias, and impossible to cheat with your back.
Nautilus Nitro High Bicep Curl
A high, standing-style curl machine that keeps the elbows out in front and the long head of the biceps under tension the whole way. Nautilus Nitro cam, so the resistance stays smooth at the top where cheap curl machines go dead.
Precor leg raise and dip station
Weighted dips are the best heavy tricep builder there is, and the Precor frame is solid enough to hang plates off. The same station doubles as the hanging knee and leg raise.
Life Fitness Assisted Dip
Counterweighted dips for the triceps: take enough weight off for slow, full-depth reps, then take a little less off every week. The quickest way from no dips at all to weighted dips on the Precor station next to it.
Legs
Five ways to load the quads without a bar on your back, three leg curls so hamstrings get trained long, short and standing, a plate-loaded hip thrust, adductor and abductor, and a calf raise.
Precor Icarian V-Squat
The Icarian line has not been built for years, so these get hunted down second hand by people who know what they are. It loads the quads like a heavy squat with your back supported and nothing on your spine, which is why it is the first machine most people go to on leg day.
Panatta 45 Degree Leg Press
The classic 45, built by Panatta, so it takes as many plates as you can put on it. Move your feet up, down, wide or narrow and you change the job completely.
Panatta Lying Leg Press and Hack Squat
Two machines in one frame. Lying press when your lower back has had enough of the 45, hack squat when you want the quads on their own. Very few gyms in the North East have either, never mind both.
Belt squat machine
The load hangs from a belt on your hips, so the legs work as hard as a squat while your spine and shoulders take nothing at all. If your back is sore or you are coming back from injury, this is the machine that keeps leg day going.
Wolverson Sissy Squat
Quad isolation through a stretch you cannot reach any other way. Brutal with just bodyweight, and it pairs with the leg extension for a finisher that ends the session.
Life Fitness Leg Extension
Quads on their own, heavy or high rep, with a stack that goes high enough to be worth it and a start position you can set to your knees.
Nautilus 2ST Seated Leg Curl
Seated puts the hamstring on stretch before you even start, which is where most of the growth comes from. Most gyms have one leg curl. We have three, and this is the one people neglect.
Nautilus Nitro Lying Leg Curl
The shortened end of the hamstring, trained lying down. Run this and the seated curl in the same session and you have covered the whole muscle.
Technogym Standing Leg Curl
One leg at a time, standing, with the hip straight. It catches the part of the hamstring the seated and lying curls miss, and it shows up any left-to-right difference straight away.
Predator Strength Hip Thrust and Glute Bridge
Predator Strength are a high-end Croatian builder and this is their hip thrust: movable platform, adjustable footplate angle, adjustable range of motion and band pegs. No barbell digging into your hips, no faffing about with a bench, and it fits anyone from a first-timer to a competitor.
Technogym Glute Kickback
Standing, one leg at a time, with the glute isolated and nothing else helping. Technogym feel, which matters on a movement this small.
Precor Adductor
Inner thigh, trained properly rather than as an afterthought. Strong adductors hold the knee where it should be under a heavy squat.
Precor Abductor
Outer hip and glute medius: the muscle that gives the hip its shape and keeps the knee tracking straight when you run.
Life Fitness Calf Raise
Full range, standing, with a stack heavy enough to actually grow calves. Soleus work goes on the leg press toe press.
Core
Loaded ab work from every angle: crunch machine, Ab Coaster, sit-up benches, hanging raises and the Ab Solo medicine ball target.
Nautilus Nitro Ab Crunch
Abs are a muscle, so load them like one. The Nitro crunch lets you add weight week on week instead of doing endless sit-ups that stopped working months ago.
Ab Coaster
Kneel on the carriage and drive your knees up on a frictionless track. It hits the lower abs hard with no strain on the neck or lower back, and you can load Olympic plates on it as you get stronger. There is not another one in Teesside that we know of.
Ab Solo
Stand up and throw a medicine ball into a suspended target. Upper abs, lower abs and obliques in one rotational movement, with a rep counter on the front. More fun than a crunch and harder than it looks.
Panatta sit-up bench
Adjustable Panatta bench for weighted and bodyweight sit-ups, set to whatever angle makes it hard for you.
Precor leg raise station
Captain's chair with contoured elbow pads and a back pad, so hanging knee raises and leg raises stay strict instead of turning into a swing.
Cables and attachments
Four adjustable cable stations across two Watson dual adjustable pulleys and two Technogym pulleys, with Rock-It and MAG grip handles, ropes and single-hand attachments. Hundreds of exercises come off these alone.
Watson Gym DAP (two units)
Hand-made in Somerset by Watson, the best cable stations money buys in this country and priced accordingly. Each one has two independent columns, a 100kg split stack with half plates for the small movements, and chinning bars on top. Two units means four cable stations working at once.
Technogym high-low pulleys (two units)
Two single-column Technogym pulleys that adjust top to bottom. Perfect for one arm at a time: cable laterals, single-arm rows, pullovers, curls and face pulls.
Rock-It and MAG grip handles
The premium handles: Rock-It and MAG grip, wide and close. They sit in your hand at the angle your shoulder actually wants, which is why your back gives out before your grip does. Most gyms are still using the bent bar that came with the machine.
Ropes, single handles and bars
Strength Shop tricep ropes, single-hand attachments, straight and lat bars, for pushdowns, curls, crossovers, rows and pull-throughs. All of it on the rack, none of it walking off.
Bars and plates
Olympic bars, EZ bars, a rotating curl bar and landmines, with Primal and Nike plates and bumper plates.
Olympic barbells
20kg bars with proper spin on them for pressing, rowing, squats and Romanian deadlifts, racked and ready rather than left on the floor.
EZ-curl bars
The kinder angle for curls, skull crushers and drag curls when a straight bar starts to bite your wrists.
Strength Shop rotating curl bar
The handles rotate and float as your wrist moves, so the strain comes straight off the wrists and elbows. If heavy curls or skull crushers have ever left your elbows sore, use this instead of the EZ bar and feel the difference on the first set.
Primal and Nike plates
Full sets of Primal Olympic plates plus bumper plates and Nike plates, racked on the wall in order for the racks, the plate-loaded machines and the HYROX floor.
HYROX and functional area
Official HYROX kit on a dedicated floor with a marked running lane, so the classes train the real stations at the real weights.
CenterX sleds (two)
Two official CenterX sleds with official HYROX ropes, on a marked lane you can actually push and pull down. The sled is the station that catches people out at their first race, and it is the one you can practise here every week.
HYROX wall balls
Two each of 2kg, 4kg, 6kg and 9kg official wall balls, against a proper target wall. Same ball, same target height, same 100 reps as race day.
HYROX sandbags
Two each of 10kg, 20kg and 30kg official sandbags for lunges and carries. The official bag sits differently on your shoulders to a gym sandbag, and that is exactly why we have them.
HYROX kettlebells
Official HYROX kettlebells in 16kg, 24kg and 32kg: the farmers carry weights for every division from Women Open to Men Pro, and the handles are the same ones you will grip on race day.
Concept2 rowers (two)
Two Concept2 rowers, the machine the race is run on. Train your splits on the same monitor you will race on.
Concept2 SkiErgs (two)
Two Concept2 SkiErgs, the race-standard ski station and the first thing you hit on race day. Get the technique right here and you do not blow up in the first thousand metres.
Air bikes (two)
Two air bikes, a Rogue Echo and a Taurus, for the intervals that build the engine. The harder you pedal the harder they push back, which is why nobody coasts on them.
Panatta Eco Power Runners (two)
Two of them, and neither one is plugged in. You drive the platforms through a 95cm running stride and hydraulic pistons take the load, so your knees and shins never take a landing. Seven resistance levels, from an easy flush between sets to three minutes that empty you. Running work without the pounding.
Matrix treadmills (two)
Two Matrix treadmills on the HYROX floor itself, so you can set a pace, hold it, and run your intervals between stations without leaving the area.
Myzone live effort screens
Wear a Myzone belt and your heart-rate zones and effort show live on the screens in the HYROX area and around the gym floor, then sit in the Myzone app for good. Handy for pacing a sim or a sled block. Members get £30 off a belt in the members' shop.
Member perks →Cardio suite
Cardio for warm-ups, incline walks, steady-state and conditioning.
Technogym treadmills (four)
Four Technogym treadmills for incline walking and running, with the cushioned deck that makes a long steady session bearable.
StairMaster (two)
Two of the real thing. Nothing burns calories and builds glutes at the same time like a proper stair climber, and nothing else feels quite as honest twenty minutes in.
Matrix cross trainers (two)
Low impact, full body, and kind to sore knees on the day after leg day.
Matrix stepper
Steady stepping for glutes and quads with no impact through the joints. The machine people put their headphones in for and lose half an hour on.
Technogym exercise bike
Upright cycling with Technogym's programmes built in, for warm-ups and steady-state work.
Star Trac recumbent bike
Seat back, feet forward, no load through the knees or lower back. The bike to use if you are carrying an injury or just starting out.
Spin bike
Weighted flywheel and a proper riding position for intervals and hill work when you want cardio that actually hurts.
Recovery room
The bit most gyms forget. Every membership includes the recovery room, with no booking needed: walk in after your session. Non-members can use it with the £15 gym and recovery room day pass. More about the recovery room.
Ice bath
Cold water immersion after training or a HYROX session. Ease sore muscles, take the heat out of a hard week and build the habit the top athletes swear by.
Infrared sauna
Warm up stiff joints before a session or unwind after one. Heat, then cold, is the classic recovery pairing and both are a few steps apart.
Massage chair
Sit down, press a button and let it work through your back and legs while you cool down.
Pulsio Air compression boots
Pulsio Air pneumatic compression with leg and hip attachments. Squeezes fluid out of tired legs after runs, sleds and leg day, the same recovery tool used by endurance athletes and footballers.
Massage guns
Percussion massage guns with a range of heads for calves, quads, glutes, back and shoulders. Use them before a session to loosen up or after to flush out the tightness.
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