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While at the gym I saw a guy doing chest fly on a machine.\u00a0 I mean, there\u2019s a joke in that itself because machines are for people\u00a0who don\u2019t lift<\/a>, but hear me out on this one.<\/span><\/p>\n Crucified on the stack of weights of 15 lb. increments were\u00a0two\u00a0<\/em>45 lb. plates.\u00a0 Adding a plate onto the pin isn\u2019t necessarily an uncommon practice, as I\u2019ve seen plenty of people at the gym do it when certain machines for whatever reason lacked the \u201cadd +5\u201d mini plates, or if they were such beasts that the maximum weight were not enough, and they insisted on adding ten more pounds instead of graduating to y\u2019know, free weights.<\/span><\/p>\n But to add\u00a0two<\/em>\u00a0plates, much less plates the weight of 45 lbs. apiece, that\u2019s a first for me.\u00a0 But here\u2019s also where the story begins to get a little funny, at least to me, and hopefully you reading this.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n 45 lb. plates are fairly large objects, in terms of not just weight, but also diameter.\u00a0 Given the configuration of this chest fly machine that our subject was using, it would be impossible to add a plate(s) to the pin while it was at its maximum weight, because when maxed out, the pin is maybe four inches off the floor, while the radius of a 45 is much larger than that.<\/span><\/p>\n Determined individuals would settle for the weight where the pin\u2019s location would be usable for adding weight to the pin, add the weight there, and hope the new total weight exceeded the maximum weight of the machine\u2019s default capacity.<\/span><\/p>\n Our subject was not that determined.\u00a0 Naturally.<\/span><\/p>\n Based on the pin location of the identical machine next to the chest fly machine that our subject was using, the two 45s were pinned to the weights starting at 175 lbs.\u00a0 So, doing a little bit of basic math here:<\/span><\/p>\n 175 + 45 + 45 =\u00a0265 lbs.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Our subject was doing chest fly at 265 lbs.\u00a0 And I use the term \u201cdoing\u201d loosely, because I didn\u2019t actually see him do a single rep, but amazingly had the courtesy to actually put his 45s back, otherwise I would have totally taken a picture of his set up after he had left.<\/span><\/p>\n Here\u2019s the kicker to this whole story:\u00a0Sans added weight, the maximum weight of this particular chest fly machine is 290 lbs<\/strong>.\u00a0 Our subject arbitrarily added weight for absolutely no logical reason at all.<\/span><\/p>\n Maybe he wanted to look like he was a beast, by adding plates, instead of moving the pin into a higher weight?\u00a0 To a machine (lol).<\/span><\/p>\n Maybe he was hell bent on lifting 265 lbs. on the dot, and not 275 or 290?\u00a0 I mean, I once knew a Geoff in high school weight training that could lift 185 like it was nothing, but tacking an additional 5 lbs. onto it made him fail like he were being asked to pull the Titanic.<\/span><\/p>\n Or maybe it\u2019s just that the guy is just plain dumb?<\/span><\/p>\n It\u2019s probably just that the guy just plain dumb.\u00a0 I mean, who are we kidding here?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" While at the gym I saw a guy doing chest fly on a machine.\u00a0 I mean, there\u2019s a joke in that itself because machines are for people\u00a0who don\u2019t lift, but hear me out on this one. 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