Cable machines with different pulley configurations?
I go to two different gyms depending on my schedule and lately I've noticed that the cable machine at one gym feels way harder than the machine at the other. I assume the pulleys are configured differently at each gym but it's annoying because I'll select the same weight and it feels totally different than I expect. It makes tracking my progress on those exercises feel kind of useless because I can't really compare to my previous session if it was at a different gym.
I'm mainly doing tricep pushdowns and seated cable rows on these machines.
I don't think it's just my own fluctuations on different days because I have multiple sessions at each gym to compare now and my other exercises with free weights generally feel much more consistent.
Does anyone else have this problem? Am I crazy? Is there any quick and easy way to make a conversion between different machines? I could draw diagrams of the pulleys on both machines and do out all the math, but that sounds like more thinking than I want to do for my lifts, to be honest.