REP FITNESS FT-5000 HACK! Add 4" in Height with this easy tip!
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- Опубликовано: 18 окт 2024
- In this video I go over how to add 4" more height to your REP FITNESS FT-5000 trainer!
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New to your channel, great content! Recently orders the V2 of the FT5000 and it’s sitting in the garage (not yet assembled). I’ve heard nightmares about assembly, any suggestions or tips to help streamline to process? (I.e. tips, tools needed, etc) any assistance would be appreciated! Have a great one
This solves my only complaint with this machine! Thanks for the video!!
your welcome. Hope I explained it well enough. cheers!
I am definitely doing this today. This is a great hack. I was thinking of building 2 risers to go underneath the entire stack eventually, but this will most likely solve my problem. I am 5'9" but my wingspan for my arms is 6'1". Thanks again
your welcome. Someone commented they actually built a 4" subfloor to raise it up. This is probably a bit easier and doesn't cost anything.
I ran into the same problem With my FT5000 I just built a riser underneath of it some 2x4s, plywood and horses stall matts and made a 4 inch riser platform solved all my problems!
Nice job! You might have found this fix to be a little easier and faster.
I was fully expecting you to say cinderblocks but this works too.
Could you just remove the caps from the thing you flipped upside down, remove the plastic pulleys then put it all back together which would make the cable come out without doing all the other stuff?
I did that first and it was more work. Still have to shorten the cable so this way saves you time and is much easier
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Every inch is valuable with these machines. Great share!
It an improvement for sure. Plus its free!
Tricep pushdowns are where I need the higher height, but I have an Ares with 93" uprights, so not an issue.
Excellent choice!
I was tempted to do this with my FT3000 !
Might be a similar process
I did this with my FT3000 and it worked fine. Cutoff 4 inches of the cable as well.
@@Mikestuh awesome!! People have been asking about the 3000
@@Mikestuh I was looking at mine last night…I think all you need to do is remove one of the pulley wheels in the carriage, then remove the carriage and flip it. You still get excess cable with it flipped? The two main exercises I see this being useful for are tricep push downs and seated lay pull downs. Are there any other benefits you found from this?
@@michaeltylermedia I first removed the cable hook and then pulled the cable out of the carriage/pulleys, then I removed the one bolt that the trolley swivels on and flipped the carriage and reinstalled the bolt. Then I cut 4 inches off of the cable. No issues with extra length. Basically I followed everything stated in this video and had no issues.
I love hacks like these and no doubt you did offset the height from repositioning the pulleys. But did you really gain 4”? I get that the pulleys are 4” in diameter, but I imagined doing this would only gain you half that, or the 2” radius of the pulley and not the diameter. If you measured and the cable sits four inches higher than before then that settles that. Even 2 inches is an improvement though.
Well my math isn't great but I had to trim 4" off the end of the cable and measured it 4" higher. ha ha It was actually more 4 1/4" or so gained. Each machined might be a little different in cables etc so results may vary.
@@MacStrengthCo that’s an awesome result!
@@NoTimeForThatNow What's really weird is the pulley housing is knotched to clear the upper pulley? I wonder if it was always supposed to be installed upward? It's like the instructions got messed up and everyone just kept doing it.
I really don't get the decision to narrow the FT-5000 2.0.
One of the main compromises that comes with any functional trainer is that it has less width than a cable crossover machine, cutting that gap between pulleys is the last compromise they should have made.
Height is an issue and I get that, my basement gym has 7' 8" ceilings, and many people will be putting them in basements with 8" or less of ceiling height but my gym room is 17 ft wide by 34 feet long and can EASILY accommodate a couple more inches of much needed width.
Looks like the widest one at this price point now is the XMark followed closely by the Titan, but the XMark is the last home functional trainer in the class still bitterly clinging to nylon pulley wheels.
I agree. They should have consulted me first before making the new version.