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The gym in my new building finally opened, and it uses the LifeFitness Fit Series Fit 3 machine. I haven't worked out in ages, and I'm trying to figure out what I was actually lifting, given that the plates are labelled simply 1-21. The sales materials and manuals I've found online say that the range is 5 kg at the easiest setting to 95 kg at the heaviest. I'm not sure how that translates into weights per increment, though. Is the easiest 1 - or is it no pin at all and just the impedance of the machine? If setting 1 = 5 kg, then that means each of the plates under it (and plate 1 is the smallest) are 4.5 kg or very nearly 10 lb. Those are nice round numbers - but I'm still not sure that's right, so if I were doing lat pulls on setting 6, I'm pulling down 27.5 kg or 60 lbs?

I can't calibrate off what it 'feels' like because I haven't been inside a gym in almost six months.

Apologies if there is something obvious I'm missing, and any help most appreciated.

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    Sounds like a question you should be asking the people that manage/own your building. They should be able to provide what you need.
    – rrirower
    Commented Aug 31, 2020 at 19:30

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I would go with what you have outlined. It really doesn't matter unless you are switching between free weights or some other machines. The suggestion of the luggage scale would be most accurate, but rather time consuming for a novice lifter.

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In the end it doesn't matter - you should lift whatever setting you can do for the rep range in your program with similar effort.

Say you can do 15 reps with 60lb leaving no reps in reserve (meaning, you cannot perform another rep with proper form) then you just find a setting in your new machine where you can perform 15 reps and not a single one more. Your muscles don't know or care how much weight is that, muscles only know tension. Once you find the number you can just progress from there, increasing reps / weights over time as you would with any machine.

The progression might also not be 1:1 with your old machine, because different brands not only use different weights but the relationship between weight on plates x weight on the bar can be different due to cable length, friction, number of pulleys, etc. If you have trouble moving the pin to the next plate you could either hang a small 0.5 or 1.25kg plate on the pin, or put your water bottle on top of the plates, then you artificially create a half-step between plates.

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