The room and the machines
One room, air-conditioned, parking outside. Every machine is here for a reason.
NM Élite Studio is a single room at Via Marecchiese 354 in Villa Verucchio, near Rimini, fitted with Panatta plate-loaded machines, Xenios USA racks and free weights, and a Beyond Power Voltra One for digital resistance. It is air-conditioned, has free parking outside, and is used by appointment — never more than five people at a time.
What it looks like
Three suppliers, three jobs
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Panatta
Apiro, Italy
Guided-path plate-loaded machines. Built round the movement rather than the frame.
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Xenios USA
Free weights
Racks, barbells, dumbbells. The part of the job no machine replaces.
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Beyond Power
Digital resistance
A motor instead of plates. Software works out the load, not gravity.
The machines, one by one
Under every model is the reason it earns its floor space.
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Panatta
Super Lat Pulldown Circular
Back
A circular path and independent arms keep the work in the lats without loading the shoulders and wrists — suitable even for delicate joints.
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Panatta
Super Leg Press 45°
Legs and glutes
Solid frame, clean travel: the load stays in your legs and never reaches your lower back. This is the machine that lets you push the intensity safely.
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Panatta
Dual Adductor / Abductor
Stabilisers and glutes
Constant tension through the muscles that hold your pelvis steady, and it switches between adduction and abduction in seconds.
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Panatta
Dual Leg Extension / Seated Leg Curl
Quads and hamstrings
An adjustable seat lines your knee up with the pivot. Get that right and the load goes into the muscle instead of the joint.
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Beyond Power
Voltra One
Digital resistance
A portable motor that creates resistance instead of plates. It can overload the eccentric, adjust by the gram, and hand back data on every rep as you do it. Cast iron cannot.
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Xenios USA
Power rack, half rack and Smith machine
Free weights
Squats, lunges and presses taken to the limit, with the safeties pinned where they should be. The guided bar earns its place when you isolate a muscle and want stability.
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Xenios USA
Dumbbells, plates and barbells
Free weights
Dense rubber, knurling that holds, calibrated weights. Progressive overload only works if the number stamped on the plate is the truth.
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Xenios USA
Sled, slam balls and kettlebells
Conditioning
High-intensity circuits and explosive power. The burn carries on well after you have left.
No two leg presses are the same
Change the angle, change the travel, and you change where the load ends up: on one machine the drive stays in your legs, on another part of it reaches your lower back. On your own you cannot tell — you find out when something starts to hurt.
Then there is the setup. Lining your knee up with the pivot of a leg extension takes ten seconds and decides whether you are training the quad or the joint. That is half the reason there is a trainer on the floor.