Have you had any patents in your name? Have you designed an original piece of gym equipment?
Designers always aim for simplicity. However, when a machine like my biceps supinator has resistance in two degrees of freedom
things get complicated. The machine has many adjustments and 21 pulleys. It is complicated because of what it is capable of doing.
No one else has ever made such a machine. Sure, the lads here poke fun at me but that was a difficult machine to design and build.
I did everything by myself. I don't know of any other champion bodybuilder who has designed and built a professional piece of gym
equipment. The apparatus designed by Larry Scott are good but they are not pin loaded machines. Frank Zane didn't make any
significant contribution to gym equipment design. I was the first builder to use linear bearings in a Smith Machine (1982). Now all Smith
Machines use linear bearings.
I work in machine tool design and manufacturing. I deal with fairly complicated designs on a daily basis. The one thing ill tell you that every good engineer knows, its not how slick, or cool, or how much you can add that makes a great design... its when you design a complex system and simplify it to the point where you cannot take anything OFF while still performing its purpose that constitutes greatness.
Fankly I dont care if you have patents... patents dont mean shit. Is your machine industry standard? Does it have even a niche/cult following? Or do you own a patent on a machine that you have in your gym and a couple friends that you sold them too? Designs dont mean shit if no one wants the goddamn things.
Look, its great that you tried to design something yourself, but dont lie to yourself. You made something your proud of, but not something that anybody cares for. Its clearly overengineered and complicated looking, and thay kind of stupid shit matters to people. If it looks overly complicated, theyre going to assume it is and be off-put right from the get go. There is a lot of ways you could hide and simplify that system but you didnt, im assuming because you wanted it to look flashy and complicated.