r/weightlifting • u/A5teroid30_ • 4d ago
Equipment Gym Bolts Hip Thrust Machine to Weightlifting Platform
The gym I am currently going to has 4 wooden weightlifting platforms that are regularly used for both powerlifting and weightlifting. Management decided to bolt a hip thrust machine down on one of them. Is this whack?
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u/red_rolling_rumble 4d ago edited 4d ago
I’ve been to a gym where they bolted a squat rack to a platform. Why? To mess with the weightlifting and powerlifting crowd at the gym. They thought their increasing number was starting to scare off the other customers. So there’s your reason.
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u/A5teroid30_ 4d ago
It sucks because the machine has wheels on it so its suppose to be mobile but they chose to bolt it to the platform. I guess the’re trying to send a message.
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u/robaroo 4d ago
The message is you have soft glutes work on it man!
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u/A5teroid30_ 4d ago
I guess so XD. They couldn't bare looking at all the flat butted lifters any longer.
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u/chattycatty416 1d ago
Nah that's just simple liability reasons. Some poor soul flipped a 20 year old equipment in a gym and became a quadriplegic and sued and won against the manufacturer and thr gym. Basically killed the Cybex company.
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u/Afferbeck_ 4d ago
This is a crime that must be investigated immediately by IWF agents
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u/AbusedGoat 4d ago
I can't fathom the thought process that led to this lmao
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u/Ailuridaek3k 3d ago
“Oh look, a wooden rectangle roughly the same size as the hip thrust machine! If we bolt it there, we won’t damage the floor! What do people even use these wooden rectangles for anyway..?”
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u/A5teroid30_ 3d ago
It’s so weird how they don’t view the platforms as equipment. Might as well have bolted it under the squat rack.
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u/Ailuridaek3k 3d ago
I see so many globo gyms with weightlifting platforms and bumper plates that still don’t allow weightlifting. Like, you can make whatever rules you want in your gym, but you do know what that equipment is for, right? I honestly think most gyms buy WL equipment and assume it’s generic “weight [space] lifting” equipment.
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u/A5teroid30_ 3d ago
You nailed it. Drives me up a wall. Why buy $1200 eleiko bars when you could just get some crossfit bars for $200-$300. I have legit been to a gym where they have full eleiko equipment including the sound dampening eleiko platforms but a big sign that says no chalk and no dropping weights.
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u/A5teroid30_ 3d ago
We are all just as confused. The picture doesn’t really show it but theres an empty wall literally right in front of this platform that would have been perfect for it.
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u/dougseamans 4d ago
WTF I would put in a complaint. Clearly being a lifter and a gym owner I would never do this but if I was a gym member and my gym did this I would say something.
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u/A5teroid30_ 3d ago
We have been talking to some of the front desk guys. I guess they got a new manager recently and he made the decision. I’m hopeful that it’ll get moved but it’s just crazy that they thought it was a good spot in the first place. Makes it seem like they don’t really use the gym much.
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u/dougseamans 3d ago
If it’s still there next week ask why it hasn’t been moved yet. I’d never do anything like this in my gym, I’ve never really gotten a complaint about anything but I have gotten suggestions and requests and if someone makes the request repeatedly then I feel it must be really important to them and I make it happen. Best of luck! 👊🏻
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u/Powerful_Relative_93 3d ago
What an idiotic move, only time I can understand the rationale is if said gym is very tight on space. Even then I’d argue that they should find another corner of the gym and put it there with a weight tree. Solves your issue.
FWIW, I was a member of a gym where they bolted a competition squat rack to the only weightlifting platform in the gym. Let’s just say I called it quits when that happened. Luckily cancellation was no hassle and quick.
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u/A5teroid30_ 3d ago
Several of us including some of the front desk employees have been trying to wrap out heads around the whole thing. We came up with a plan to move it to a better spot but the next day they had bolted it down. I think the people in charge genuinely don’t understand what they are doing.
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u/taveiradas66 3d ago
I woul leave and tell them the reason. Or threaten to leave at least...
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u/A5teroid30_ 3d ago
The issue is I’m from a smaller town so we don’t really have any other options besides a planet fitness. This gym is honestly great but the original owner passed away and the people who took over just don’t have the same vision.
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u/taveiradas66 2d ago
Do you have some people who also train with you? Maybe start your own thing :)
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u/A5teroid30_ 2d ago
We have definitely thought about it. Maybe sometime in the future. I think we all have dreamed of having our own spot.
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u/schleifer83 3d ago
Could be pure laziness. Much easier to drill wholes and fix bolts in that wooden tile over there than properly mounting the machine to the concrete floor.
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u/RichRichieRichardV 3d ago
WTF is a 'hip thrust machine'? Who needs a machine for that? I've never heard of such a thing.
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u/Afferbeck_ 3d ago
It's just a more convenient and comfortable way of doing it than wrangling a barbell and a bench or plyo block. Definitely popularised by that glute guy over the past 10 or so years.
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u/Asylumstrength International coach, former international lifter 4d ago
That's nauseatingly frustrating.