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The greatest piece of exercise equipment ever invented.

Not the barbell, not the bicycle.

Not the rower, the airdine, or the pull-up bar.

I'm talking about the Smith machine, of course, specifically the squats and curls you can do within its elite confines.

Just kidding. It's the VersaClimber, folks. The most brutally effective piece of fitness equipment

you'll ever use, but probably haven't. Most people don't know about it because no one talks

about it. Few use it and gyms don't

stock more than one if you're lucky. Is this because it's a useless piece of machinery?

No. The VersaClimer is almost too good, too effective, and too intense an experience for

most people. The few that have used it almost invariably quit because it's so hard,

and gyms don't have many because they can't convince people to use it properly,

to actually go all out like they've never gone all out before. The Versaclimer and I go way

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