r/weightlifting • u/A5teroid30_ • 6d ago

Equipment Gym Bolts Hip Thrust Machine to Weightlifting Platform

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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/RichRichieRichardV 4d 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_ 4d 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.