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The man doing the squats in the video was super-setting his reps on the squat machine with sets of 10 reps in the power rack with 405lbs (deep). I will let other readers make their own judgements regarding your response. Sure, us equipment heads on this forum may be impressed with heavy gauge steel, but in a commercial gym no one cares. Users/buyers just want the machine to be solid and functional. But you should recognize that limiting your market due to preconceived notions will limit your profitability.Īs for hubris, no one in a commercial gym cares that you use thick steel. I guess it depends upon the type of gym you hope to place your equipment. In my home gym, shoes are optional and often not worn. Many powerlifting gyms have people deadlifting in bare feet, socks, or lightweight shoes. Hint, aside from a potential for foot injury, an unfinished edge is a tripping hazard when a person wearing shoes strikes a glancing blow to the end of an unfinished footer.Įveryone in Planet Fitness wears shoes, expensive ones, too. You might be well served to investigate the reasoning behind that design choice by others. The caps are often welded on higher end equipment. There is a reason reputable manufacturers finish their equipment and put end caps on their footers.
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As for the unfinished footers on your equipment, I was not referring to burrs. Perhaps if you listened to the marketplace and did not discount what others say, you might be more successful. You said you lost a ton of money the last time you tried to enter the equipment market. Thank you for your advise regarding commercial gyms. Regarding working out in "bare feet", while I do not know of many examples of this behavior, I would advise against it in a gym environment because you could "bloody your foot" (if a machine manufacturer did not deburr the ends of their tubes or did not utilize plastic end caps on their exposed rough sawn tube ends) or you could possibly "stub your toe" (if you were to walk into a machine). You may be confusing my fabrication methods with those of other manufacturers who simply cut parts off with a cold saw and slap a plastic plug on the end in order to build quickly and consequently save money. Don't you think you're being a little extreme.Īs far as safety (regarding getting cut by uncovered edges), both the inside diameters and the outside diameters of the pipes and tubes on all of my machines are fully deburred (after all, I have to handle these parts in fabricating the machines and do not wish to be cut myself).