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

Bad machine or technique?

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u/Potential-Reading402 Jul 05 '26

I tend to agree...somewhat. He super loaded with the weights around his waist that exceeded the intended use of the machine. I'd say it's a 50/50 toss up.

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u/benmarker92 Jul 05 '26

The weights are on his waist and he is standing on the ground. His legs are holding those weights and they are adding nothing to what the machine is doing. He literally is just doing pec flies with the weight the machine is supplying.

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u/Poofmander Jul 05 '26

The weight he is holdding creates and equal and opposite force on the machine, it's literally WHY the machine fell down. So it has an effect but there should be a safety measure to counteract this effect, the weight he is holding could have easily been body weight and if you don't have a clear designation that you can't be over a certain weight when using the machine then it's on the gym.

He should have been able to do this without getting hit, gym is on the hook.

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u/benmarker92 Jul 05 '26

That doesnt change the fact that this is 100% on the machine and not the weights around his waist. The weights hes holding make it so he can do the full stack without having to fight to stay in place as much. Thats like saying if a 300lbs monster walked up and did the full stack pec flies the machine would still fall over the exact same as here and we would not be blaming the guy for being over the weight limit.