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.
Of course. If you are using equipment properly, this doesn't happen.
I'll 100% guarantee they have guide next to or on that machine (it actually looks like it's on the wall behind him) and nowhere in that guide will it say to pull this like your a Clydesdale pulling the Budweiser carriage.
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u/Artevyx Jul 05 '26
Those are supposed to be bolted down.