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Návody
26. 1. 2026
Prevádzka
Find the model and serial number on gym equipment
The model and serial are on a plate on the frame or inside the console bay. Photograph them. If the plate is gone, say so. Do not invent a number.
3 min čítania
10. 11. 2025
Životný cyklus
Repair or replace gym equipment
Replace when the part is gone, the same fault keeps returning, or the machine is unsafe while you wait. Use the spend you recorded. Do not invent a lifespan.
3 min čítania
1. 9. 2025
Údržba
Rowing machine maintenance
Service the chain or strap, the rail, and the handle connection. An air rower, a water rower, and a dynamic erg are not the same parts.
3 min čítania
7. 7. 2025
Údržba
Indoor cycling bike maintenance
Pedal play closes a studio bike before a dark console does. The drive belt, the saddle post, and sweat on the bolts are the service.
3 min čítania
12. 5. 2025
Údržba
Elliptical and cross trainer maintenance
An elliptical fails at the pedals, the rollers, the arms, and the ramp. It does not have a treadmill belt. Do not order one.
3 min čítania
17. 3. 2025
Bezpečnosť
The equipment inspection before you open
Walk the floor before members train. A stop that fails, a broken cable strand, or a missing collar closes that machine before the door opens.
3 min čítania
3. 2. 2025
Údržba
A preventive maintenance plan for a gym floor
Build the plan from hours and classes, not from a copied calendar. A missed week is written down. A perfect spreadsheet that nobody walks is not a plan.
3 min čítania
2. 12. 2024
Údržba
Weight stack maintenance
A stack that sticks under load is out of service. Clean the guide rods, check the pin, and do not oil a stack because it squeaks.
3 min čítania
7. 10. 2024
Údržba
How to replace a cable on a selectorized machine
Replace a cable when a strand is broken or the line is kinked. Do not splice it. Record which run, and the length from the old cable.
3 min čítania
19. 8. 2024
Údržba
How to service a treadmill deck
A deck is flipped once, dressed with the specified product, or replaced. A new belt does not repair a grooved deck.
3 min čítania
10. 6. 2024
Údržba
When to replace a treadmill running belt
Replace the belt for cords, a cup you cannot track, or slip under a normal step. Measure the old belt. Do not order from the logo.
3 min čítania
15. 4. 2024
Údržba
Commercial treadmill maintenance
What to check on a club treadmill between belt changes: tracking, heat, the deck, the incline, and the stop.
3 min čítania
Kratšie poznámky
3. 4. 2026
Prehľady
Put the quote on the job before you approve it
A price in a text message is not an approval. The job holds the figure you said yes to.
1 min čítania
15. 3. 2026
Prevádzka
Tell a member the status, not the internal argument
The useful sentence is whether they can use it, and whether you already know. The part number is not for the floor.
1 min čítania
24. 2. 2026
Životný cyklus
A spare machine in the back is not a strategy until it is in the file
The treadmill in the corridor is either in service, stored with known faults, or scrap. It is not a secret backup.
1 min čítania
5. 2. 2026
Prevádzka
Reset the rig to a known plan after class
A rig left as the last workout set it is a different machine. The closer puts it back and notes what broke.
1 min čítania
17. 1. 2026
Údržba
Rain and mud arrive on the first machines
The bikes and treadmills nearest the door take the water. Their faults are often the entrance, not the brand.
1 min čítania
29. 12. 2025
Prevádzka
A manual you cannot find at the machine is a missing manual
If the only copy is a link in a leaver’s email, write ‘not on file’ and obtain one.
1 min čítania
10. 12. 2025
Prehľady
When the timetable changes, watch the assets it leans on
A new class can double the hours on four bikes and none on the rest. The faults will follow the hours.
1 min čítania
21. 11. 2025
Prevádzka
A physio corner inside the gym needs its own assets
Treatment beds and small devices are not the gym floor’s leftovers. They have owners, faults, and a status.
1 min čítania
2. 11. 2025
Bezpečnosť
Kit in a children’s area is still equipment
Smaller does not mean informal. A broken hold, a loose bolt, or a torn mat is a fault with a status.
1 min čítania
14. 10. 2025
Bezpečnosť
Clearance is a condition of the machine
A treadmill too close to a mirror, or a rack too close to a walkway, will be reported as the machine’s fault. Measure it once.
1 min čítania
25. 9. 2025
Údržba
After a move, assume something loosened
Feet, shrouds, console leads, and anchors shift in a move. Check them the same day, on the same asset.
1 min čítania
6. 9. 2025
Údržba
Belt dust is a maintenance clue
Black dust under a treadmill is not only dirt. It is the belt or the deck telling you they are wearing.
1 min čítania
18. 8. 2025
Bezpečnosť
A hot smell is a stop, not a note for later
Hot insulation, a warm plug, or a console that smells sweet and sharp: take the machine off and do not switch it back on to ‘see’.
1 min čítania
30. 7. 2025
Údržba
A new noise is a signal, a familiar noise is a note
Ask whether this sound is new. New, rhythmic, or linked to one part of the movement deserves a fault.
1 min čítania
11. 7. 2025
Bezpečnosť
Accessibility equipment is not a side cupboard
A lift, a ramp, or an adaptive machine that is out of service is a closed door, not a spare.
1 min čítania
22. 6. 2025
Údržba
Outdoor kit rusts, fades, and still needs a status
Weather is not an excuse to leave a seized pivot unrecorded. The public uses it when you are not looking.
1 min čítania
18. 6. 2025
Životný cyklus
When a repair is really a replacement
Purchase date, warranty, and what you have already spent belong on the asset — before you approve the next expensive fix.
4 min čítania
3. 6. 2025
Prevádzka
A small studio still needs one file per machine
Ten assets are not ‘small enough to remember’. The trainer who is off this week is the proof.
1 min čítania
15. 5. 2025
Bezpečnosť
A 24-hour floor has to close a machine without a person present
If the only way to make a treadmill safe is to wait for morning staff, the night is unmanaged.
1 min čítania
26. 4. 2025
Prevádzka
A hotel gym is unstaffed more often than it looks
Guests will not find a technician. The sign, the status, and a working way to report are the whole morning shift.
1 min čítania
7. 4. 2025
Prehľady
Read the register at the end of the year
The year-end is a reading of what failed, what waited, and what you retired. It is not a new system.
1 min čítania
19. 3. 2025
Údržba
A service contract is a set of jobs, not a feeling of cover
Know what they will attend, how fast, and what you still record. A contract does not replace the history.
1 min čítania
28. 2. 2025
Životný cyklus
Delivery damage is a record, not a scuff to ignore
Photograph it before the packaging leaves. A dent you mention next month is a dent you own.
1 min čítania
9. 2. 2025
Životný cyklus
Record a new machine before members use it
The arrival hour is when the serial is readable and the damage is still obvious. After the first class, both get harder.
1 min čítania
21. 1. 2025
Životný cyklus
Point the new machine at the one it replaced
The new asset starts empty only if you let it. The reason it was bought sits on the old file.
1 min čítania
2. 1. 2025
Životný cyklus
Retire a machine without deleting it
Gone from the floor is not gone from the record. The next purchase needs the reason this one left.
1 min čítania
14. 12. 2024
Životný cyklus
Replace when the next repair is the same story
The signal is repetition: the same failure, a growing spend, and a machine that no longer matches the programme.
1 min čítania
25. 11. 2024
Životný cyklus
Repair when the file says the machine is still the right one
A clear fault, a known part, and a history that is not already a list of the same failure: that is a repair.
1 min čítania
6. 11. 2024
Životný cyklus
Expected life is a planning note, not a promise
Write the date you would be unsurprised to replace it. Do not invent a manufacturer’s lifespan you do not have.
1 min čítania
18. 10. 2024
Životný cyklus
Keep the purchase next to the machine it bought
The price, the supplier, and the date belong on the asset. A finance folder that nobody on the floor can open does not help the next repair.
1 min čítania
29. 9. 2024
Životný cyklus
Put the warranty on the asset before you need it
A claim starts with dates and a serial, not with a search through an inbox on the morning something fails.
1 min čítania
10. 9. 2024
Údržba
After a busy weekend, look for what loosened
High use shows up as walked belts, sweaty posts, loose collars, and faults reported late.
1 min čítania
22. 8. 2024
Prevádzka
Monday is for what the weekend actually did
Do not start Monday with a plan you wrote on Friday. Start with the faults the weekend left.
1 min čítania
3. 8. 2024
Prevádzka
Train a new floor lead on the open list, not on the settings
The first week is: find a machine, open a fault, close one honestly, and hand over. Menus can wait.
1 min čítania
15. 7. 2024
Životný cyklus
When a machine changes site, the history goes with it
A ‘fresh start’ at the new gym deletes the repairs that explain the next failure.
1 min čítania
26. 6. 2024
Prevádzka
Brand the public page only as far as it stays clear
A member scanning a code needs the status. A full marketing skin that hides the status has failed.
1 min čítania
7. 6. 2024
Prevádzka
Add a field only when you have used the note three times
A custom field for every idea becomes a form nobody finishes. A repeated note deserves a field.
1 min čítania
19. 5. 2024
Prehľady
A chain needs the same file, read across sites
Head office does not need a different kind of truth. It needs the same jobs, visible together.
1 min čítania
30. 4. 2024
Prehľady
A single site needs a short report, not a dashboard
The useful monthly page is: what was unsafe, what waited, what you spent, and what you will do next.
1 min čítania
11. 4. 2024
Prehľady
The cost of a stop is not only the part
A closed treadmill through the busy hours has a cost in lost use. You do not need a fake formula to see it.
1 min čítania
23. 3. 2024
Prehľady
Count downtime as time members could not use it
A machine in pieces on a Tuesday night is not the same as a machine closed through a full class day.
1 min čítania
4. 3. 2024
Prevádzka
See what is overdue without a second spreadsheet
If the real list lives in a sheet, the register is a brochure. Due and late belong on the jobs.
1 min čítania
14. 2. 2024
Údržba
A recurring plan is a job that already knows when it is next
If the next belt check depends on someone remembering, it will land in the week you are short-staffed.
1 min čítania
26. 1. 2024
Údržba
Photograph the fail, not the whole gym
An inspection photo is useful when it shows the defect and which machine. A panorama of the floor is a postcard.
1 min čítania
7. 1. 2024
Údržba
The person who looked is the person who signs
A manager’s name on a walk they did not do makes the next fail unbelievable.
1 min čítania
19. 12. 2023
Bezpečnosť
A failed inspection has to create work
Fail, then nothing, is how the same note appears next month in a different handwriting.
1 min čítania
30. 11. 2023
Údržba
A checklist people finish is shorter than the one you admire
If the list is longer than the attention of the person opening the gym, it will be ticked in the office.
1 min čítania
11. 11. 2023
Údržba
Count the shelf you claim to have
A stock figure nobody has checked is a wish. A short count of the parts you rely on is enough.
1 min čítania
7. 11. 2023
Prevádzka
An issue is not a work order
The problem and the job are different objects. Mixing them is why the board gets noisy and the history gets thin.
4 min čítania
23. 10. 2023
Prevádzka
Write the lead time on the job when you order
A part that takes three weeks is a status, not a surprise to announce when the member asks again.
1 min čítania
4. 10. 2023
Údržba
Name the part on the job, not in someone’s memory
‘The usual cable’ is not a part. The next order will be wrong, and the history will not show what was fitted.
1 min čítania
15. 9. 2023
Údržba
Do not stock parts you cannot fit or identify
A shelf of unknown boards is not preparedness. It is a puzzle for the next person.
1 min čítania
27. 8. 2023
Údržba
Stock the parts that actually stop the floor
A shelf of random leftovers is not stock. Keep the parts that turn a closed machine into an open one this week.
1 min čítania
8. 8. 2023
Prevádzka
The sign on the frame and the status in the register must match
Tape without a status, or a status without tape, is how a member uses a machine you closed.
1 min čítania
20. 7. 2023
Bezpečnosť
Members do not repair the equipment
A helpful member with a multitool is not a work order. The machine comes out of service, and the repair is yours.
1 min čítania
1. 7. 2023
Údržba
Separate cleaning from maintenance
A wipe-down is not a service. A service is not a reason to skip the wipe-down. The register should not mix them.
1 min čítania
12. 6. 2023
Bezpečnosť
Power leads on the floor are a fault, not a layout
A cable across a walkway, a stacked adaptor, or a warm plug is not something to step over until Friday.
1 min čítania
24. 5. 2023
Bezpečnosť
Emergency stops have to be reachable and real
A stop hidden by a bottle, a towel, or a console menu is not a stop. Test the ones that are supposed to kill motion.
1 min čítania
5. 5. 2023
Údržba
A squeak is a note until there is play
Noise alone is usually comfort. Movement in a joint that should be tight is a fault. Learn the difference on each machine.
1 min čítania
16. 4. 2023
Údržba
Torn upholstery is comfort until it is not
A split cover is ugly. An exposed edge, a sliding user, or soaked foam is a reason to take it out.
1 min čítania
28. 3. 2023
Údržba
Lubricate only what you mean to lubricate
The wrong grease on a belt or a pivot is a new fault. If you are unsure, clean, record, and stop.
1 min čítania
9. 3. 2023
Bezpečnosť
Anchors and wall fixes are safety checks, not decoration
A rig, a rack, or a wall ball target that moves is already a fault. Tightening it ‘when we have time’ is the wrong status.
1 min čítania
18. 2. 2023
Údržba
The floor under the machine is part of the machine
A torn tile, a wet patch, or a platform that rocks will be reported as a fault on the treadmill standing on it.
1 min čítania
30. 1. 2023
Údržba
A dead console is not always a dead machine
Decide, per machine, whether the screen is the product or only a display. Write that limit on the status.
1 min čítania
11. 1. 2023
Údržba
Recovery kit still needs a status
Rollers and mats are not ‘just foam’. A split roller and a frayed suspension strap are faults.
1 min čítania
23. 12. 2022
Údržba
Rigs fail at the attachments, not at the upright you notice
The rig looks permanent. The j-cups, the bands, and the straps are what leave the floor in a bag.
1 min čítania
4. 12. 2022
Údržba
Dumbbells and plates need a file too
A cracked dumbbell is an asset, even if it never had a serial number. The set is not one vague pile.
1 min čítania
15. 11. 2022
Údržba
Selectorized machines: the pin, the guide rods, and the stack
If the pin does not go through the plate, the machine is not ‘a bit stiff’. It is not selecting the weight the user thinks.
1 min čítania
27. 10. 2022
Údržba
Benches and racks fail at pins, feet, and welds
A rack is quiet until a pin does not seat or a foot rocks. Those are the checks, not the upholstery.
1 min čítania
8. 10. 2022
Údržba
Rowers fail at the chain, the rail, and the handle
A dusty rail and a dry chain are ordinary. A frayed connector where the handle meets the chain is not.
1 min čítania
19. 9. 2022
Údržba
Service bikes for play, belts, and the thing members hit
Cranks, pedals, seats, and fans take the abuse. The console is what people complain about first.
1 min čítania
31. 8. 2022
Údržba
Read a treadmill belt before you replace the motor
Walk-off, glaze, and a hot smell have a short list of causes. The motor is not the first guess.
1 min čítania
12. 8. 2022
Údržba
Look at cables along their whole run
The fray you can see at the handle is the easy one. The one at the pulley, inside the shroud, is the one that fails in a set.
1 min čítania
24. 7. 2022
Údržba
Treat heat and humidity as maintenance, not as weather
A cardio room that runs hot eats belts, consoles, and patience. The room is part of the asset’s conditions.
1 min čítania
5. 7. 2022
Údržba
Use the monthly check for what the weekly walk cannot see
Weekly catches what is obvious. Monthly is for shrouds, torque, wear that hides, and the machines nobody likes to service.
1 min čítania
16. 6. 2022
Údržba
Keep a weekly inspection that fits one site
A weekly pass is a rhythm, not a manual. The same route, the same checks, a note only when something fails.
1 min čítania
28. 5. 2022
Údržba
Write down what the outside technician actually did
A contractor’s visit is a job. “They came” is not a resolution.
1 min čítania
9. 5. 2022
Prehľady
Keep the estimate and the actual cost on the same job
The interesting number is not the invoice alone. It is how far the job moved from what you thought it would cost.
1 min čítania
20. 4. 2022
Prevádzka
Write labour time the way the job actually went
A round hour on every job makes the history useless. Ten minutes and a return visit are both real.
1 min čítania
1. 4. 2022
Prevádzka
Put before and after on the job, not in a camera roll
The fault photo shows the complaint. The job photos show what you actually changed.
1 min čítania
13. 3. 2022
Prevádzka
Resolved means someone wrote down what fixed it
A closed fault with an empty resolution is a hidden message. The next person will open the same problem as if it were new.
1 min čítania
13. 3. 2022
Prevádzka
Stop collecting gym faults in a group chat
A stuck cable is useful as a message for ten minutes. After that, the gym needs a record attached to the machine.
4 min čítania
22. 2. 2022
Prevádzka
Record waiting on a part as a state, not a pause
A job that is quiet because a cable is on order is still an open job. The machine’s status has to say so.
1 min čítania
3. 2. 2022
Prevádzka
Move the job out of the group chat
The chat can announce that a machine is closed. It cannot be the place where the history lives.
1 min čítania
15. 1. 2022
Bezpečnosť
Separate a comfort complaint from a safety fault
A hard seat is a comfort note. A rocking bench, a hot smell, or a frayed cable is a reason to stop use.
1 min čítania
27. 12. 2021
Prevádzka
Ask for a photo when the fault is something you can see
A picture of the torn pad saves a visit. A picture of a black screen does not. Ask only when it helps.
1 min čítania
8. 12. 2021
Prevádzka
Use a priority the floor will actually apply
Five levels of urgency become one level by Friday. Three words are enough: unsafe, unusable, and everything else.
1 min čítania
19. 11. 2021
Prevádzka
Treat the second report as a signal, not a second job
Two members describing the same catch in the lat pulldown are not two repairs. They are one fault heard twice.
1 min čítania
31. 10. 2021
Prevádzka
A rating is a signal, not a work order
Stars tell you someone was unhappy. They do not tell you which bolt to turn, or whether the machine should be closed.
1 min čítania
12. 10. 2021
Prevádzka
Take a fault from the floor without making the member a technician
The report should capture what the person saw. It should not ask them to diagnose the motor.
1 min čítania
23. 9. 2021
Prevádzka
Show members the name and the status, nothing else
The public page is for the person standing at the machine. Cost, blame, and internal notes do not belong there.
1 min čítania
4. 9. 2021
Prevádzka
Hand the shift over on the register, not in the doorway
A conversation at the door disappears. The open faults and the unfinished jobs do not, if they are written on the assets.
1 min čítania
16. 8. 2021
Bezpečnosť
Decide who may take a machine out of service
If only the manager may close a machine, the unsafe one stays open until the manager is back from lunch.
1 min čítania
28. 7. 2021
Prevádzka
Close the floor with the jobs, not with a feeling
The last walk should leave a clear list: still out of service, waiting on a part, or safe to open in the morning.
1 min čítania
9. 7. 2021
Prevádzka
Walk the floor before the first members arrive
The opening walk is a short list: what is out of service, what was left unfinished, and what looks newly wrong.
1 min čítania
20. 6. 2021
Prevádzka
Move a machine without starting a new history
A new corner is not a new asset. The faults, the jobs, and the warranty move with the frame.
1 min čítania
1. 6. 2021
Prevádzka
Make every status mean one thing
If “out of order” sometimes means dirty and sometimes means unsafe, the floor will stop trusting the sign.
1 min čítania
13. 5. 2021
Prevádzka
Keep the manual and the invoice next to the machine
A document that lives only in someone’s inbox is missing the moment that person is off shift.
1 min čítania
24. 4. 2021
Prevádzka
Take photos you can still use in six months
A dark close-up of a bolt is not a record. The useful set shows the machine, the place, and the thing that is wrong.
1 min čítania
5. 4. 2021
Prevádzka
What to do when the serial plate is gone
A missing plate does not make the machine unidentifiable. It means you need another mark, and a note that the plate is missing.
1 min čítania
17. 3. 2021
Prevádzka
The file a machine needs before anyone reports a fault
Category, name, place, and status are enough to start. The rest can arrive with the first real job.
1 min čítania
26. 2. 2021
Prevádzka
Draw zones a person can walk
Floors, rooms, and zones are how someone finds a machine without calling the person who installed it.
1 min čítania
7. 2. 2021
Prevádzka
Name every machine so the next shift can find it
A nickname that only one trainer understands is not an asset name. The floor needs a name that survives a handover.
1 min čítania