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Re: This gym setup make sense to you?

Posted By: Mark Lesniak (71.250.246.96)
Date: Monday, February 22, 2010, @ 6:26 a.m.

In Response To: This gym setup make sense to you? (Rich Cabeza)

Most commercial gym owners are crazy. You'd swear that they were trying to get themselves sued. Where I lift, they have smith machines on either side of the one power rack. If you are walking out a squat without noticing that the smith machine is in the up position, the two bars will crash into each other. The bars on the smith machines actually need to be all the way down to prevent any kind of collision. The most insane thing about the setup become apparent when someone was putting weight on one of those machines. My brother was about to descend with an around 400lbs squat. The person loading weight on the smith machine had their head directly under my brother's bar. Had I not noticed, well.......

I hate to break it to you, but nothing is going to change until someone actually gets hurt.

Messages In This Thread

• This gym setup make sense to you?
  Rich Cabeza (99.20.219.104) -- Saturday, February 20, 2010, @ 12:12 p.m.
  • Re: This gym setup make sense to you?
    Mark Lesniak (71.250.246.96) -- Monday, February 22, 2010, @ 6:26 a.m.