Gym Lifting Platforms: How Many You Need and How to Build Them Right A gym lifting platform is the cheapest piece of equipment on your floor per unit of damage prevented. Eight square feet of plywood and rubber is what stands between a dropped 200 kg barbell and a cracked slab, a bent bar, and […]
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Gym Equipment Insurance: What Underwriters Ask Before They’ll Cover Your Floor Gym equipment insurance is less about the machines than about the paperwork behind them. Underwriters rarely send anyone to look at your treadmills. They ask for a valued asset schedule with serial numbers, evidence of what it would cost to replace the kit installed, […]
Specialty Barbell Buying Guide: Which Bars a Commercial Gym Should Stock First A commercial gym needs two specialty barbells before it needs ten. Buy a safety squat bar and a trap bar first, add a Swiss bar once your straight bars are properly stocked, and leave the rest on the wish list until members ask […]
Gym Equipment Freight Damage Claims: How to Inspect, Document, and Get Paid Every gym equipment freight damage claim is won or lost in the first twenty minutes after the truck arrives. Inspect the shipment before you sign the delivery receipt: every visible dent, torn carton and missing pallet goes on the paperwork at that moment, […]
Powerlifting Gym Equipment: What to Buy for a Strength-Focused Facility A powerlifting gym needs six things before anything else: racks, competition benches, bars, plates, platforms, and floor area to drop a deadlift on. That’s the whole core list. The money a fitness club spends on selectorized machines goes into steel gauge, safety systems, and plate […]
Elliptical and Exercise Bike Repair: Bearings, Flywheels, and When to Stop Fixing Most “dead” cardio machines are not dead. When an elliptical starts grinding or an exercise bike develops a clunk, the cause is usually one of six wear parts costing $8 to $70, and the fix takes one to three hours with hand tools. […]
Gym Equipment Import Duty by Country: What US, EU, UK and Australian Buyers Actually Pay Gym equipment import duty is lower than most first-time importers expect. Under HS code 9506.91 — the heading that covers treadmills, exercise bikes, ellipticals, rowers and most strength machines — the published MFN rate is 4.6% into the United States, […]
Gym Equipment Installation: What to Do When Your Container Arrives The container arrives, the driver wants to leave in 45 minutes, and there is no forklift. That is how most gym equipment installation days go wrong — not in the assembly, in the 90 minutes before it. Here is what a clean installation actually requires: […]