The Technogym Village is a monument to all things 'wellness' Skip to main content. ... the hack squat machine was born, and many people (myself included) now have him to thank for some very sore legs.

There's another section visible for strength training, with a series of leg-press and hack-squat machines (which were invented by Technogym founder Nerio Alessandri in the 1980s) alongside other ...

Strength training is part of Technogym’s DNA with Hack Squat, the piece of equipment that marked the foundation of the company in the early 1980s.

Technogym has been the exclusive supplier to the past four summer Olympics and will be again for Rio this summer. ... In 1983 he built his first machine — the Hack Squat — in a small garage.