I have this product. After suffering a massive lower body injury in a motorcycle crash a couple of years ago I needed something to help get me sprinting again. This piece really helped me along. Affordable and good.
Tip if you’re going to use a plate for eccentric movements. Put something less than the width of the plate to set it down on in front of you. This will make it easier to pick up off the ground so it’s not flush with the ground.
@@DJS100 Spot on! I like to use a few weight plates when I train concentric Nordics. The current model does stand on its side. We are working on better storage solutions for the future!
I feel like there’s an opportunity to engineer it so that you could also perform sissy squats. To me that would add a tremendous value to this product by making it more versatile for the home gym owner. Even at a $100-150 markup that would be worth it in my book
We've played around with this a bit. The main issue is we would need to move the footplate farther back. This makes the bench less ideal for concentric Nordic reps. But we are still looking into other ways to make this happen
@@I25M Reverse Nordics would work with the same set up. You just can't go all the way down. You could also just use it for the knee paid and not use the ankle lock
I do n.c. with a yoga mat, yoga strap, and aerobic step. Good exercise. No need for this piece. $25 Nordic strap works well too and is easy to travel with. Use with a door or a power rack. Can measure ROM progress with stacked yoga blocks, as is done in calisthenics.
@@soranhernandez6425 I like nice things...when an additional cost creates additional value. Watching this showed me this does not. The only way I could see it doing so is if it removed all downward pressure on the knee joint, as the nicer versions do and this doesn't. I don't train only @ home. If I did, I'd do Nordic curls like I do now and get a GHD (probably Rogue or Rep). If someone is home gym only, a Nordic strap with a door works well if need to save up for a GHD (since, as you write, it is just fine to want nice things). Not sure why someone would delay saving for a GHD by purchasing this POS. I guess I'd rec it if I didn't know better or pretending I don't for profit ( aka links are in the description).
I've been doing them with the Stray Dog Dual Utility Roller attached to my rack and the Stray Dog Balance Pad. They feel great and I love how many other things I can use the roller for. I have a small basement and space is king!
what rack do you have? I have an titan x-3 and thinking about going this route since I don't have very much space. I live in Ohio and could probably just pick it up from Stray Dog.
Great vid! I hope in a year I can rep them out like you to. 1. I did not put the wheels on the rogue table and put the back on backwards so I can stand it up 2. The Nord stick is like $40 and is great with a hotel towel when traveling 3. The EZ-Nord from the tib bar guy is like $100 and attaches to a bench. I put it on my flybird adjustable bench and can do the incline scaling as you mention Keep it up!
I had the Nordic strap, Not a big fan. It’s difficult to find balance and the stitching gave way and ripped apart mod rep. Luckily I didn’t smash my face on the floor. I pee ordered this machine and looking forward to using it
Seems like a very niche product for $250, I just bought a 3 section 4x6' floor mat, put the Olympic bar on and a cheap pad on it along with some plates, works fine for nordics... I can use the mat for other things also
I've been fabricating a rack-attachable nordic curl bar that is just as sturdy but only takes up 1/10th of the space! I would love to send yall one for a review. There are some videos of it on my RU-vid channel.
Why are half the comments talking about how you can diy it for cheaper? Yeah you can do that. You can also make a squat rack out of 4x4s and you can grow your own coffee beans and raise your own chickens and go mine your own cobalt so you can build your own smartphone but some of us prefer buying something than spend time making an inferior version.
Just use most any adjustable ab bench (with something underneath to raise the end up to flat)..... instead of that silly, unstable design. Around $350 after you include the price of weights to hold it down?......🙄
I was thinking maybe they can add a pivot arm on either side of the foam where the logo is with a small foot for the base that is shorter than the width of the foam to prevent you from scratching yourself. When in use, the arms and feet are rotated facing towards where you place your feet. When you want to store it, you rotate the arm along the pivot so that the feet are now in line with the wheels. That would give you a square base to stand it on! Maybe you can recommend that to the company!
I really like the adjustable bench that lets you do nordics that atg has advertised for a while but haven't seen a review for it. I'm guessing it's still a prototype.
I got the EZ-Nord from The Tib Bar Guy and used that on my adjustable bench to build up to my first Nordic. Takes less than a minute to setup/tear down and I put my bench against the wall so I still have a foot plate. Can’t justify a piece that size for one movement but EZ Nord for me is a great compromise.
-Misleading- The Nordic Curl is a good tester of hamstring strength. The GHR is a good builder of hamstring strength. The problem with the Nordic curl is that it actually locks the knee cap in place as well as places too much stress on the patella tendon. The GHR eliminates this risk. Yes on most GHR’s there is a leverage advantage (if you us it incorrectly) but both have a lack of resistance throughout the entire movement. I wish this channel would give more mention to Elite FTS. All of their GHR’s are purposely tilted to make them harder and take away ANY leverage advantage while also being safer on your knees than nordics. They don’t just make equipment for colleges and commercial gyms Coop. They have an awesome home gym line.
I've been so tempted to buy a dedicated piece, but I keep using my Rogue Monster storage rack. With a dumbbell shelf on the bottom, I can wedge my heels under the lip and it works perfectly even with added bodyweight. I put my knees on an abmat. The rack also allows me to wrap bands around the middle shelf to do assisted nordics. Give it a shot if you have a Monster storage rack.
I do these off the side of my rack. The crossmember is high enough to get my ankles under. I wrap an old yoga mat around it for ankle padding. I use a couple of those foam puzzle piece mat for knee padding. I use bands around the safety for assistance. The nice thing about this setup is that between the bands and the safety height, I can really dial in the assistance and overloading/progression.
Hi, very useful review, there's also the cheap PowerMark Fitness 618GHD Floor Glute Ham Developer, it will be cool to made a review and compare the two, greetings from France
I bought a freak athlete Nordic after Coop toured a CrossFit celebrity gym and there it was sitting in a corner. I wanted to buy a Rogue, but it was too expensive, too heavy, and takes up too much space. I tried cheaper door-options from Amazon, but they are not the same as a true Nordic board. I use my Freak Athlete for nordics and dragon flags.
This machine looks sweet. I do Nordics 2x per week, super-setting them with Back Squats since machine curls hurt my knees. If I have no one to hold my ankles, I use a Bosu and wedge my feet against the wall. Even with a partner, the Bosu gives the best support I've ever had with Nordics. Very cushy, though you do expend some hamstring performance by focusing on keeping your feet wedged when solo.
I bought the nordic mini about 4 months ago and it's been a great piece for us in our garage gym. We don't even add weight in the back and it still holds us. I can do a full nordic curl without the back coming up at all (I weigh 165lbs for reference.) One thing I would like is a longer tube for the leg rollers so they can be pulled up higher. It would be nice if I could sit on the flat pad with my thighs anchored underneath the leg roller pads. This would allow me to do heavier lat pulldowns on my racks pulley system.
I just started incorporating nordics and they are quite humbling. I don't have any specialty equipment, I just load a barbell on the floor with at least 80% of my bodyweight and stick a plate or dumbbell in front of the weight on each side to keep it from rolling forward. Then, I put my ankles under the bar and use a drop pad or pillow to cushion my knees.
Before the pricing of gym equipment started jumping you could get the Sorniex model for right around $300. With their "Double-Stitched Premium Naugahyde" and all. Kick myself every day for not grabbing one. Just kept putting it off. It was weird to see anything from Sorinex basically be the cheapest on the market lol.
I've been using a roller pad on my squat stand with crashpads and an ab mat. takes a bit to setup. But, its easy to scale by using bands. Can you use bands on the nordic mini"?
Bought this on a Black Friday sale and it is absolutely one of the best pieces of equipment I own. It has been Instrumental in quickly progressing my ability to do nordics. I bought the nordic stick but this is on an absolutely entirely different level. If you are serious about improving your nordic ability then buy this, don't hesitate.
He definitely mentions the price at that end of the video cause he knows people are just gonna click off when they hear it lol. Came straight to the comments to save me from wasting my time. Thx
When I started doing Nordics I placed my pad in the middle of my rack and then bands on band pegs high and behind me and looped them across my chest. This allowed me to have some assistance so I could build into doing unassisted nordics by reducing the band tension over time.
Cool review. Once other manufacturers send you their competition, sounds like a good comparison roundup. Maybe even include your DIY setup you mentioned , but didn’t show. Great job.
I've been doing nordic curls with my barbell with a pad attached to a couple jhooks on my powerrack with my knees on my bench. It works great because I can also attach a band to the rack to more incrementally progress.
Rogue Monster Lite Rack Mount Leg Roller ($87) Just started using this with my bench and Monster Lite Power Rack. It's going pretty well so far, I just wish there was something I could also press my feet up against.
i bought a tib bar from this company and love it, they're the only company i found that makes standard 1" plate tib bars. it did take a while to arrive but they are a small company so it's understandable. however, some of their products don't have 1" standard plate options (like this nordic mini) unfortunately. i'd buy more for them if they did. not all of us have 2" olympic plates around the house so it's good to offer both options. i think they mentioned it's something they'd look into offering in the future though. also their weighted foot product only supports up to size 13 or 14 shoes or something, which is a pity since i wear size 15. but overall i'm very impressed by this company and hope they can make more products that i can use in the future. as for nordic curls, what i do now (not sure if this is safe, but it seems to work so far) is use the foam foot bars on an adjustable bench i own, put my feet under that, put a foam pad under my knees, put weight on the bench (several 45 lb plates, you probably want at least your own weight in weight on the bench, i weigh less than 180 so for me that's four 45 lb plates), and do nordic curls using the bench's foam foot pads to support my feet. just mentioning it in case others want an affordable option that they can do with the equipment they might already have. this probably won't work with every single bench's foot pad design, but my bench's foot pads are adjustable, so i set them at their highest setting, in an upward angled position (there are two different ways to install them, angled up and angled down), and set up like that even my big feet do fit under those pads (with the backs of my ankles pressed against the bottom of those foot pads). you also probably will want to do this with a yoga mat or thin foam pad under your knees (or both).
Seems like it might produce unealthy levels of strain in the knee joint itself. I'm not a physiologist though. I welcome any counter to that assertion. I'm just looking at it and the motion required (all in two knee joints, 200+ lb man or woman) Is it safe for a 300lb man?
Lol. Gone are the days of Steinborn!! No squat rack no problem. Can't believe now we need an extra piece of equipment for Nordics!! Gripping onto the base of a heavy couch with your toes with knees on a career works great too!
This is not the cheapest option. You can use a standard bench with a weight lifting belt looped around it. Then slide your feet under that. Job done. No extra equipment needed. This seems like a luxury if you have the money.
lol the bodybuilder guy in the vid simply strapped his ankles to the bench using a leather weight belt. I've been doing the same for ages but with a Spud Inc glute/ham strap. No need for overpriced equipment.
Just do them on the ghr bench. You can modulate the difficulty by changing how far the pad is. If the pad is far, the knees will get under it and the exercise would become easy. If the feet pad is as close as possible to the rounded pad, your knees will have to be on top of it and it will essentially be a Nordic curl...
The GHR is actually harder if you place your knees slightly forward of the pivot point or apex. 💪Hence, the fulcrum is resting against your upper shins; not your knees. This places maximum weight load on your hamstrings leaving you crawling out of the gym post leg workout. 😢
Coop (or anyone else), I have room for one more piece in my home gym. I am undecided between the Westside reverse hyper and this Freak Athetic mini floor ghd. I have no particular injury that I'm addressing, but just simply interested in adding a final piece for improved health & athletic performance. Which would you get?
hey if you learned about these from ben then you should already be doing it correctly. If you've seen his videos on them, you'll know that it's done strict. And if you want to build up to it, you have to first start with where you can actually stop momentum wise. So essentially, stack up some mats or something to stop at based on where you're at with it and take the stack down a peg each time you get stronger at the movement. instead of having your arms out in front, you put them at your sides with your hands behind you. The strict nordic curl is usually done with the hands and fingers in contact with the lower back so as to deload it and cause it to have less fatigue. Since essentially your hands are the thing that it can brace against so that it can maintain the same position. Any movements and micro adjustments that your lower back has to make will make it have to strain that much more for you to do the lift. It's like using the neck for sit ups. It's something you have to take out of the movement. Involuntary contraction from muscles that are not intentionally designed for a lift will only cause you to generate extra fatigue and put out less force as a biproduct of your inefficiency. Also if you can't do it strict, there's no shot you're going to get this with weight. It's advanced even being able to do this strict body weight, and even with your relatively not muscular frame, you'll probably have it easier since it'll take a less advanced strength level in this lift to do your body weight as is. In general, the glute hamraise is called what it is because it uses both hamstrings and the glutes. The reverse hyper at a high angle should be called the glute lumbar swing. Also why no link the product. Oh turns out you found out about what they're planning to sell with it extra. dont wait for that. Just stack plates, sand bags, pillows, literally anything else before buying some extra shit for it. If you have extra stall mats, cut them up and use em. There is no reason why you need to wait for some extra shit just to be able to progress in a movement. Ben talked about this is in a video, if you want to get stronger at nordics you have to do them at your level and scale it. And so the progressive range of motion is the only way to train it when you're not strong enough for a full rep. i see that it cant stand upright. you didn't show an example of the rogue or sorinex standing upright. I was thinking they probably would be able to from the thought of it taking up space, if they could stand up right then they wouldn't really be that problematic. in that instance, the only issue with them is their cost being that high up there. In which it's really not that compelling for them to come out with this product as it is, it stands as an incomplete product with promises of features to scalp you of your money extra. It should be one set and it should have been all designed to be compelling from the start. Though I do disagree that it would be unusable in a corner. The only thing that would stop this from being used in a corner, is something in front of it. Theoretically though as well, they should have that peg up higher so that somebody who just so happens to have 100lb plates can fit 100lb plates without making modifications or adding cut up stall mats as risers for this thing. I mean if osmebody actually pretty heavy were to use this thing, if you can't put more than 3 plates 4 plates, then your counter weight might not be enough to begin with. It might make sense to just make it wider, make it taller, and then design it to have plate storage underneath the pad and then make it upright. That will still be limited but atleast it would be centered and then fi it can fit potentially a pair of 100 pound plates or even a couple of more plates then atleast that would be more likely to be a one size fits all scenario and actually work well for that. Basically, make it bottom heavy and wider to make it more stable.
This exercise we were able to do with little equipment. Yoga mat and a workout buddy to hold ankles. Saw some jump numbers pop off on avg 25%. Great exercise, regardless of equipment, but one can replace the plates w/a partner or two and simply standing on the edges.
I use a WOWCOR Nordic Hamstring Curl Strap, a memory foam pillow for my knees, and a resistance band around my chest attached to the top of a door for assistance. I think this would work as well as this overpriced gizmo, and it’s also quite portable. Since I already had the resistance band, door attachment and pillow, total cost was under $30.
l use stray dog strength utility roller attachment and rogue crash pads for this type of movement and other movements. no need to buy this if you already have crash pads and anything to keep your feet still in your rack.
