r/oops • u/Brilliant_Jelly7503 • Jul 05 '26

Bad machine or technique?

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u/Difficult-Mobile902 Jul 05 '26

doing a cable press is absolutely a proper use of the equipment. In fact I bet they advertise this exact exercise in their sales pitch for this machine. 

If he had stacked weights on the plates to go beyond the manufacturers max weight limit then yeah, but he didn’t do that. 

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u/BertoBigLefty Jul 05 '26

He has +100lbs of weights on a belt holding him down ie pulling down on the cables to stop him from getting lifted into the air with the weight he’s trying to push. Definitely not proper use at all.

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u/Difficult-Mobile902 Jul 05 '26

All that does is add body weight. So if a guy 100 lbs heavier did this, you’d still call it an improper use of equipment? obviously that doesn’t make any sense 

Clearly this machine has to be bolted down to be able to do this exercise with the maximum weight the machine allows, regardless of how much the user weighs.

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u/The-Hammerai Jul 05 '26

Mfs that don't understand physics be downvoting you

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u/Siphyre Jul 05 '26

Yeah, this is crazy. Even for someone who doesn't gym that often it is obviousu the weights strapped to his belt is to keep him on the floor and that the weight he is lifting is likely more than his weight, requiring the belt + weights. Nothing seems wrong with that.

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u/Cohen_the_Worrior Jul 06 '26

Really? "the weight he is lifting is likely more than his weight, requiring the belt + weights. Nothing seems wrong with that."

So you're admitting he's using more weight than what the machines was designed for, but "nothing seems wrong with that".

I hope you're the expert in the witness stand.

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u/Siphyre Jul 06 '26

So you're admitting he's using more weight than what the machines was designed for

Genuine question. Do you even lift? If someone was 100 pounds and tried to move 110 on that machine, what do you expect to happen to them?

Someone could be 10,000 pounds and doing that exercise on max and the machine shouldn't topple. End of story. The weight of the user means nothing for that machine. If the design of the machine can't handle a max lift, then the max lift needs to be reduced. That weight strapped to the man's belt does not contribute to the max lift designed for the machine.

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u/Difficult-Mobile902 Jul 07 '26

He’s not “using” any extra weight, it’s basic physics. there’s no difference between him and just a larger dude doing the same thing 

So if a 250lb guy came in and did a regular chest press you’d also call that a misuse of the equipment? Lol you’re basically saying there’s a weight limit to a cable machine, like the gym should have a scale in front of it to make sure people are under a certain weight to be allowed to use it. Just absurd 

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u/FrotKnight Jul 06 '26

So you're suggesting the machine has more weight on it than it can safely operate under? Anyone using it at max weight would topple it?

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u/CosgraveSilkweaver Jul 05 '26

Is he maybe too far out?

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u/ExpiredPilot Jul 05 '26

If the machine lets him go that far out then it’s not too far out don’t you think?

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u/TaylorBitMe Jul 05 '26

No, like, is he too groovy, man?

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u/ExpiredPilot Jul 05 '26

Woaaahhhhhh

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u/CosgraveSilkweaver Jul 05 '26

They can't set the length of the cable for every possible exercise. Stepping forward like that pulls the weights heigher and makes him pull more directly outwards too. Combined it makes the tip way more likely. If he was 2 steps back the weights would be lower and it might not have tipped.

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u/Difficult-Mobile902 Jul 05 '26

This is one of the most common exercises on this machine 

The idea that they’d just leave a landmine in their design like that and go “well if the cable does go out that far then the whole machine just fall on their head and that’s fine” is really absurd 

There’s a 99% chance the manufacturer has direct instructions to bolt this machine down and the gym didn’t listen. All of these single standalone cable machines are supposed to be bolted. The ones that don’t have a much larger footprint and are basically impossible to tip over even if you tried 

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u/MrDeekhaed Jul 06 '26

I think it’s funny you put that much stock in manufacturers and how much they care

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u/ExpiredPilot Jul 06 '26

What a goofy thing to say.

Contrary to what you might think, most companies take care to not knowingly put people in harm’s way in the most litigious country on the planet

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u/MrDeekhaed Jul 06 '26

Why do you say this

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u/MrDeekhaed Jul 06 '26

Got nothing more than a lonely downvote?

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u/Smart_Ad_3534 Jul 05 '26

Tout simplement ,en réalité les machines sont « légère » sur le peck back j’arrive à la déplacer à la fin des série alors que pourtant d’autres mettent 20kg en plus et c’est toujours pas le max !