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“It would be nice if someone tightened every fastener on every piece of exercise equipment”

I work and workout at Catalyst Fitness which is a locally-owned exercise facility in Fort Wayne, Indiana USA. As the Member Liaison one of the things I do is equipment maintenance. We have hundreds of pieces of exercise equipment and all have fasteners which hold...

I thought I knew why it leaned. Fort Wayne Gym Employee

Last week an email was received from Catalyst Fitness, my gym. I exercise and work there. One of the elliptical cardio machines was leaning to one side. I tested it by gently pushing the handles side to side. It was unstable and not like it was a week ago. With a...

It’s repaired now. Life Fitness Leg curl/ extension machine

Two weeks ago a Catalyst member showed me something on one of our exercise machines. This unit is a combination leg curl/Leg extension machine. You sit in it and you exercise the Hamstrings and the Quadriceps. The problem was the bottom pad which rests on your foot...

I got an email about the Life Fitness cable machine

One Friday last month I got an email from the Catalyst Fitness maintenance web system. It stated the seated cable row machine had a cable problem. It was stuck in the pulley and out of order. The next Saturday I stopped in to Catalyst and took a look at the row...

The Life Fitness biceps curl pad is good as new

Last month I discovered three exercise machines with worn pads and they were removed and taken to our upholstery shop. Shortly after they were dropped off another machine was discovered that had a worn pad. It was kind of suspicious how it seemed to rapidly get...