Clay Steffee
Clay Steffee is the owner of Imagine Strength and VP Engineering and Product Development at Exerbotics. He has worked alongside Arthur Jones designing Nautilus and MedX exercise machines as well as engineering strength equipment for LifeFitness.
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In this episode, Clay joins me for Part 2 of Designing Exercise Machines for Arthur Jones, Nautilus, LifeFitness, and Exerbotics. He shares more about his career designing different exercise machines, the failure of MedX, the success story of LifeFitness/Hammer Strength, and much more.
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Show Notes
- 1:11 – Designing exercise machines for MedX
- 8:27 – Working for MedX to Hammer Strength
- 15:06 – Why MedX failed as a business
- 27:03 – Specific machines designed for MedX
- 40:55 – Nautilus/Medx vs. modern exercise machines
- 45:22 – Factors to LifeFitness/Hammer Strength’s success
- 53:35 – Project at Imagine Strength
Selected Links from the Episode
- Nautilus Inc.
- MedX
- LifeFitness/Hammer Strength
- Exerbotics
- Imagine Strength
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