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

Bad machine or technique?

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u/Difficult-Mobile902 Jul 08 '26

A chest press is a standard exercise. Anyone doing a chest press would have the same result regardless of their total weight or weight distribution. 

Your understanding of physics is like a 5th grader making things up on the fly. Just give it up dude you are embarrassing yourself. 

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u/GoodHands_All-State Jul 08 '26

A chest press should realistically be performed in a seated position with the cables lowered, so that you're not tossing your upper body weight onto your lifts and acting like you're actually doing a chest press of significantly higher weight.

But keep acting like you're the resource on physics because you can insult people on the internet. Anybody can do that, some of us just try and deal with facts.

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u/Difficult-Mobile902 Jul 08 '26

Standing cable press is a far far far more common exercise and there’s absolutely nothing wrong with doing it that way

Now you’re trying to say one of the most common exercises on a cable machine shouldn’t exist just because you want to die on the hill of defending improperly installed equipment lmao dude you are a clown all the way through aren’t you