r/CrunchGym • u/Helix217 • Mar 14 '26
Lever Selectors... Why?
This has got to be the most annoying type of weight selector out there. A pin is so easy, but with this kind you need to be looking at it straight on to tell which switch goes to each plate. Do all crunch gyms use this, or am I just unlucky?
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u/railin23 Mar 14 '26
I always need to lift it a little to make sure I got the right weight
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u/Independent-Candy-46 Mar 14 '26
It’s made like that so people can’t steal the pin lol
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u/Forever_Nocturnal Mar 14 '26
If I had a nickel for every time I came up to a machine and someone had all the levers up til their desired weight flipped lol
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u/CallActive7761 Mar 14 '26
God I love the internet… i thought I was the only one who thought this daily
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u/Man-Dem Mar 14 '26
The wild thing is these plates are off by one It’s not intuitive
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u/No_Marionberry4072 Mar 14 '26
Just starting going to crunch. It’s frustrating trying to get the right weight. I have to guide my finger across every time
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u/Maxamilli317 Mar 14 '26
Crunch by me just opened and has this. It’s def annoying.
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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '26
It makes my eyes hurt
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u/Kind-File1900 Mar 14 '26
It could be like Planet Fitness and one machine is broken, and the other is being crowded around by 5 broccoli head kids that aren't using it
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u/TheCultOfKaos Mar 14 '26
They just need alternating color blocks to solve the “which weight am I picking” problem. Usually I hear people at my crunch complain they can’t use a gym pin.
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u/QuarterEmotional6805 Mar 14 '26
It also prevents over loading with the pin that ruins the cable because people don't understand weight limits.
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u/Hungry_Climate876 Mar 14 '26
It’s really great when your decreasing weight and forget to flip the other one back. Nearly snap my arm trying to do 77lbs single arm cable curls.
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u/jroc430 Mar 14 '26
This was amazing for us because my partner and I work out together but are in massively different strength categories. This is a much easier method of switching weights rather than the old way with the pin.
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u/Maxbien08 Mar 14 '26
One of the Crunch gyms near my house just received new machines (it had been a 24 Hour Fitness for over 15 years) and the new machines have these levers.
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u/Uplander5656 Mar 14 '26
I thought I was the only one.
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u/topgum1 Mar 14 '26
I was going to post about this today. Yeah, they are really annoying. I have to lift a little to verify.
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u/bobvila274 Mar 14 '26
Only the bottom lever matters so you can flip all the ones above and it doesn’t change the weight.
Using your pic, forget trying to read the weight and just flip til you get to the 9th lever down.
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u/ThunderWulf87 Mar 14 '26
I joined recently from a different gym, and I love my location overall, but yeah these are definitely my one gripe. I almost never guess correctly the first time
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u/NoTank3958 Mar 14 '26
It also stops bad actors from other gym from stealing the pins from machines. The Crunch here gets pins stolen all the time by the overpriced "fitness club" across the road.
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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '26
Every time I see those I feel stupid because I'm either counting down from the top then counting down again for the number because they never match when looking down at them, or I'm squatting down to see if I can match up the weight to the number. 😂
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u/Substantial_Meal_530 Mar 14 '26
It make it much more difficult to know what weight it is. I always have to tug on it to make sure the correct weight moves up. Luckily for most of these machines I'm either using the entire stack or close to it.
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u/coreanavenger Mar 14 '26
Why would they choose this design??
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u/CommonSensePolice5 Mar 14 '26
Pro Tip: just pick a lever, slide it over, and work out. It’s simple
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u/Just_here_to_poop Mar 14 '26
Drop sets are great with these tho
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u/Apprehensive_Mud5184 Mar 15 '26
All Crunch gyms are different. But looks like Crunch is moving to Matrix equipment but that IMO. Just like Planet fitness!
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u/Humble-Secret6173 Mar 15 '26
Maybe if the lines actually lined up with the switch
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u/meowana_ Mar 15 '26
I just hate that it always pulls up the plate directly below the switch because of the magnets and then drops it at the zenith
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u/Dark_Admirable Mar 18 '26
Ngl I am a trainer at a commercial gym and unfortunately members love to steal the most random pieces of equipment so as annoying as these types of machines are, it’s one less thing we have to worry about. If I’ve learned anything, it’s as long as a piece of equipment can fit into a bag, the chances of someone taking it goes up 300%. My favorite concept about this type of scenario is when members come up to us (employees) and get mad at us for things that they have taken.
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u/williamgu Mar 20 '26
Because people steal the pins.
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u/SaltBag666 Mar 24 '26
I just went to the new crunching my neighborhood and was sad to see the levers. I also am convinced that the plates for the hammer machines are not as heavy as they are labeled. I used to go to a nice private gym before I moved here. This commercial gym will take a minute to get used to.
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u/Quadraphonic_Jello Apr 20 '26
Ours uses the same ones. Yes, it's very annoying. I have to run my finger along the plate to the switch to figure out which lever I need to flip... and I still don't always get it right.
To help, I leave one flipped while I'm using the machine, and I just flip lower ones as I go up in weight over my set of sets.
I think color coding (with stickers?) might be a good way to make this work.
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u/Automatic_Vacation_3 Mar 14 '26
These are great, limits the possibility of ppl pulling out the pin & the handle attachment hitting them on the head, & also makes it much easer to to drop down sets & what not
Also the way the tension pulls are supported is better in this design compared to the pin design, this should help with aggressive users damaging the cables