Pec Deck and Rear Delt Machine FR01

This machine is usable at best for chest flies, after a small modification. It has a fatal flaw - the pivot point for the arms of the machine are behind where your shoulders are going to be during the movement. Because of this, the machine's arms feel fine at the sides (beginning of a fly), but as you converge, the machine's arms get shorter. I am 6ft tall with an above average wingspan, the arms are too short and force me to bend my elbow at the end of the chest fly movement. That being said, I removed the handles and put foam over the top so that my forearm can rest where you would normally grab with your hand. That has made it usable for chest flies. Rear delt flies are a different story. This is unusable for that movement and it shouldn't be advertised as being a rear delt machine. There is virtually no range of motion, it's essentially a quarter-rep. The arms don't get close enough together. On most other pec deck machines, you can alleviate that by sitting to the side, doing one arm at a time, and sweeping out in 180 degree arc. Due to the pivot arm position mentioned earlier, that doesn't work. You get what you pay for I guess. I'll continue to use it as a chest fly machine with my make shift forearm padding.