Matrix FitnessReviews of uk.matrixfitness.com

I’m a member of a Pure gym in London! They have Matrix equipment! Regardless of how out dated and difficult to use they are, and how they don’t adapt to different bodies, my main concern is the maintenance! Gym says they come regularly for maintenance but all the equipment have missing bolts, missing knots, loose bolts, fallen off parts, etc! A major incident and someone breaking an arms or losing a leg is eminent!

Convinced the engineers designing the equipment are secretly just a bunch of monkeys in lab coats. Terrible mechanics

My Planet Fitness just replaced their Life Fitness strength training equipment- which was awesome, with Matrix. They literally hurt when using. When I work out legs, my knees hurt. When I work out my chest, my elbows hurt. I feel no effectiveness in the target muscle while using like with Life Fitness machines. I’m feel it a waste of a workout and I’m concerned enough that these machines will do more harm than good that I’ll be canceling my membership there. I’ve read elsewhere that they’re cheaper ineffective machines so I’m very disappointed in Planet for making this change.

Like Technogym… just worse in every possible way. The lack of adjustable elements makes every exercise range from slightly uncomfortable to dangerous. A huge shame Puregym is full of it.

Matrix fitness is the worst thing to ever happen to UK gyms. The annoying thing is most of their machines could be so much better with some very small fixes that wouldnt increase the manufacturing cost. The machines are poorly designed usually for a few reasons: - Restrict the range of motion for no reason (leg press pins stop the sled too early, the chest press you cant get a deep stretch, etc) - Bad mechanics and weird angles - Some of the machines eg. chest press are super unstable and clunky (for no reason) - Overly thick handles which make grip unpleasant - Strange angles, eg. on the hack squat the foot plate is too steep, it should be at less of an angle to the floor, at present this stresses the knees unnecessarily for people with long limbs - Bad force curves. Eg. their plate loaded incline press, flat press etc have the exercise be super easy at the bottom and very hard at the top, which is suboptimal. All of these changes could be so easily addressed without making it any more expensive for matrix to produce the machines, if only they were able to copy the designes better of the leading players like Atlantis, Nautilus, Panatta and prime

My gym bought new back equipment all from Matrix, everything is clunky, bad ergonomics, terrible foot placements, and the lat pulldown/cable row have no range of motion. Terrible, terrible, terrible. The cables now have weird weight too, a full stack being 34kg?? Rubbish

I purchased 3 Matrix T75 treadmills for my company gym, as I read good reviews online. After 2 years all 3 have failed for different reasons. All with between 4-8k km on them. Our NordicTrack treadmill is still going after 5 years. Skip this company and look for something of higher quality. Life Fitness and Nordic Track are both better in my experience.

Horrible equipment. Can’t believe PureGym destroyed my fitness center after training there for nearly 15 years, by replacing all the best Technogym machines with these low quality, badly designed weight machines. The ergonomics are off, the confusion of the foot placement, which makes no sense of where to place your feet (foot handles.. what?) even the leg locks on the back workout machines seem to point diagonally upward so you feel like you are slipping out of hold. They can’t even regulate the weight indications on the machines, so it feels like you are actually push/pulling the weight that you have chosen. That is just a portion of the state of these machines. Absolute thrash. You have to see it to believe it.