Body-Solid Works With Arnold Classic Competitor Brady Stewart

Last year we featured Arnold Classic competitor Brady Stewart and his training for the annual event with our LVIP Leverage Incline Press. This year, we worked with Stewart to provide a DLAT-SF Mid-Row Machine to help him train for (and hopefully win!) this year’s Arnold Classic.

Stewart made a post this week on Reddit detailing the installation of the DLAT-SF, why we worked with him and much more. Here are some highlights:

My primary movement for overall back/lat development has been bent rows to the chest. It is a great movement to master and will make a person much stronger overall. However, over years of bent rows to the chest and the overall trauma of bench pressing in a bench shirt, arching, and moving several hundred pounds, my back has been progressively feeling the effects. And of course those effects are not positive.

I started researching companies that have a great track record of quality, durability/reliability, and affordability. One company that I kept noticing was Body-Solid. They always had positive reviews, excellent customer service, and a good variety of equipment. I purchased the Leverage Incline Press (LVIP), a plate loaded incline press to isolate the pecs a bit more. I posted a few times on social media and Body Solid knowing my history as a lifter took notice and offered me a partnership agreement for a piece of equipment that I tried and needed for my training and gym. I will say that working with them has been a pleasure.

Newest addition is the Body-Solid Pro Dual Lat Pulldown and Mid-Row Machine (DLAT-SF) with 300lbs stack upgrade. This thing is very high quality. It is a thing of beauty. With this piece of equipment you can do pulldowns, rows, pushdowns, and a few other exercises if you are creative enough. I mainly needed it for the pulldown/mid-row function. And to my surprise, adding in the pulldowns in my training has helped alleviate a lot of my back pain. I am assuming through decompression from pulling my spine upwards while performing pulldowns. I am still doing the bent rows, just once a week, and then use this machine twice a week. I’ve even noticed a nice increase in my raw training weights.”