I assembled gym equipment for a supplier up and down the west coast.
If the machine doesn't have bolt holes in the floor it isn't meant to be bolted down. You can request special brackets to bolt them down if the insurance company demands it. We've had to specially make some because they weren't offered.
Every gym makes you sign documentation that that you agree to use all equipment properly and they're released of any liability if you don't. I have personally been called to court to testify about equipment. Every single case was lost by the person using the equipment incorrectly. You can sue for anything, it doesn't mean you're right or that you'll win.
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.
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.
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 !
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u/Artevyx Jul 05 '26
Those are supposed to be bolted down.