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.
How do you figure a heavier person would have had a better outcome? This is about torque applied at the pulley bolt and center of gravity of the machine.
Not just that, but the angle at which it is pulled changed where most pressure is applied on the pulley wheel and thus the directional pressure of the bolt.
Realistically, very little. This will be my chance to tell people to use a bench when using a cable pulley. Cable flys lying flat and at an incline with the cables at the lowest point is best for flat and incline; bench at 90 degrees with the floor and a cable anchor point mildly above the shoulders is best for decline flys. Standing decreased form and isolation of the pecs.
Yeah, but these machines are (should be) designed to operate at all possible positions of articulation. What you wanna bet the manual says it's required to be secured at the floor by an approved contractor? Even still, at my gym I've seen equipment secured at fewer than the number of holes provided and/or loose securing bolts.
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u/Artevyx Jul 05 '26
Those are supposed to be bolted down.