Why This Maxicam Crossover Pulley is Bullshit

You see this stupid fucking machine? Do you understand what is wrong with it? I am about to get crazy smart on your ass so you might want to sit down.
You see how many fucking pulleys this thing has? Do you see the double pulley up top? The double pulley means that this weight machine gives the lifter a mechanical advantage of 3. That means that when there website boasts, “two 150 lb. solid steel precision weight stacks”, they leave out the part where you are actually only using 50lbs of force to move that weight.
Let me try to explain.
A Fixed pulley has a fixed axle and is used to change the direction of the force on a rope. It has a mechanical advantage of 1.
A movable pulley has a free axle and is used multiply forces. Simply put, if one end of the rope is anchored, pulling on the other end of a rope will apply a doubled force to the object attached to the movable pulley. This has a mechanical advantage of 2.
When Maxicam threw a bajillion fucking pulleys on their Crossover machine, they effectively tripled the force that is applied to the weight.
They could keep it simple and set it up like this:

This system has a mechanical advantage of 2. A lot of cable machines do this, I don’t know why. Maybe they think we are all pussies who can only lift half of their weight stack? Whatever the reason, this is common.
However, there is an alarming trend in gym equipment that Two Scoops will not stand for: The Double Pulley. The reason we are all gathered here today, is to point out the vagina on the Maxicam Crossover Pulley. A simple diagram illustrates the intense girlishness of this machine:

For those of you who don’t have a high school diploma, this diagram shows how the double pulley system, that the Maxicam “Max Pussy” Crossover Pulley machine utilizes, gives the lifter a mechanical advantage of 3.
Long story short, if you think you are crushing 150lb tricep pressdowns, think again: it is only 50lbs… pussy. Watch out for girly-ass double pulley machines, they are the kind of equipment Planet Fitness uses.
-Tony “Two Scoops” Muscoli