Louie Simmons, a renowned American powerlifter and now a strength coach, developed the machine. An individual ... After reaching a level just below or at the hip level, a person swings down ...

In both of its forms, gear had no greater champion than Louie Simmons ... during a taped demonstration of the machine. But the summit of Simmons’s accomplishment resides in the lore surrounding ...

Sitting down with Louie Simmons was like plugging straight into ... HIT typically involves one set to failure, performed on machines in a circuit, with effort measured by a stopwatch.