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Marcy MKM-81010 Home Gym | Perfect Gym for Beginners

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The frame of Marcy MKM-81010 Home Gym is 2 x 2.5″ heavy-duty, 14-gauge steel tubing. The base frame sports rectangular tubing, whereas the press arms and other cylindrical parts. Thus, although this is not a commercial gym machine, it’s constructed with superior durability in mind.

The MKM-81010 features a standard cable resistance system and a weight stack system. Each plate weighs 15 lbs (6.8 kg), whereas the top selector plate weighs 5 lbs (2.26 kg). Hence, the weight of the stack is 200 lbs (90.7 kg).

The Marcy MKM-81010 is easy and comfortable to use. All handles and arm developers have good grips to hold them and work them out with reliability. In addition, the dual-function arm developer and leg developer feature excellent foam padding, making this home gym unit extremely comfortable to use.

The Marcy MKM-81010 Home Gym has a 200 lbs vinyl/concrete weight stack, 291 lbs maximum weight resistance, five main workout stations, and the possibility to perform over 30+ exercises. The Marcy MKM-81010 is an excellent home gym system for beginners and intermediate users because it can work out almost every muscle in users’ bodies.

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Body-Solid FCD-STK Weight Assisted Chin-Dip | Ideal for Home Gyms

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Body-Solid’s FCD-STK Weight Assisted Chin-Dip Machine comes with a weight-assisted knee-pad mechanism. As a result, the Fusion Chin-Dip provides the same chin and dip exercise benefits to everyone, regardless of their current fitness level or weight.

Everyone has been at the starting point at some time in their lives. What makes the Body-Solid Weight-Assist Knee Raise, Dip & Chin Up so unique is the ability to accommodate beginners and help them along their way to fitness freedom. Now, users can tackle their goals head-on no matter what fitness level. The Weight Assisted Chin/Dip Machine makes it easy.

This Body-Solid chin-dip machine with the weight-assisted knee-pad mechanism has a 210lb weight stack (upgradeable to 310 lbs or 410 lbs) that allows counterbalancing your bodyweight. Build the muscles of your arms, shoulders, and back with pull-ups, chin-ups, and dips using this fitness equipment.

Add strength to your lower abdominal muscles with the vertical knee raises facilitated by this machine. Power through knee raises to tighten up that lower abdominal, or stroll through some dips and get firm, sleek triceps. Then, please take it to the other side and build tremendous lats and biceps with the lat/chin pull-up.

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Stamina X Fortress Power Tower | Features A Wide Spectrum of Exercises

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The Stamina X Fortress power tower is known as the most versatile power tower made by Stamina. It provides a workout to every muscle aiming for a total body workout through its multiple workout stations. For example, it has four pull-up stations to strengthen the arm and back muscles.

For further challenges, users can use stronghold grips. The X Fortress power tower offers triceps dips with adjustable dip bars, while vertical knee raises are for the ripped midsection. The push-ups and rows target the strengthening of the arms and chest.

Stamina X Fortress Power Tower’s build quality is strong, sturdy, and powerful with a solid steel frame construction. This substantial building is beneficial in providing stability to users while performing advanced strengthening exercises. In addition, it can support a maximum user weight of up to 250 lbs.

The Stamina X Fortress power tower is one of the most affordable mid-range models available at the moment. However, it has much more to offer than a basic model, as it integrates multiple workout stations and accessories, providing support for a much broader spectrum of exercises.

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Inspire Fitness BL1 Home Gym | Uses Your Body Weight as Resistance

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The Inspire Fitness BL1 Home Gym has a heavy-duty 2” by 4” oval 11 gauge tubular steel frame and features 2000 lb tensile strength cables, fiberglass reinforced nylon pulleys, 18” revolving curl bar, 48” steel lat bar, press arm, leg extension/curl bar, and a padded bench with adjustable seat and backrest.

The BL1 body lift uses your body weight as resistance and is adjustable from 10% to 150% of your total body weight.  Thus, you can easily select your required resistance level with the user-friendly one-handed adjustment slide lever.

The Inspire Fitness BL1 Home Gym offers the ability to perform over 30 strength training exercises. With this in mind, you can work all your body’s major muscles, including your abs, back, chest, arms, shoulders, and legs.

The BL1 body lift is a fitness machine intended for home use (a lifetime residential warranty). It came out in 2014, so it has been around for a while. It has its pluses and minuses, and in this review, I’ll try to cover them all.

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Valor Fitness BE-11 Smith Machine | Perfect Addition to any Gym

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If uncomplicated is what you’re looking for, then the Valor Fitness BE-11 Smith Machine is a perfect option. The BE-11 is a pure Smith Machine: No half-cage, racking, and worldly attachments.
Although simple, it’s also heavy-duty, very sturdy, and has all the features you’d expect of a suitable Smith Machine.

The 30 lb knurled bar runs smoothly on the reverse-pitched guide rods via linear ball bearings. These are well-made and work perfectly no matter how much weight you have loaded up. The safety latches are solid steel and lockout at 14 different points along the frame. Additional safety latches and springs can be set separately at any height.

A Smith machine with a track and linear bearings is ideal for bench presses, military presses, shrugs, squats, curls, lunges, etc. The bottom of the track even features safety springs to catch the bar if you drop it, which stops the bar from hitting your feet and the plates from smashing into the ground.

Another useful little feature of this Smith Machine is that it uses either standard 1″ plates or Olympic plates (with 2″ holes). If you want to use Olympic plates, it has sleeves that fit the bar and storage pegs. Although these aren’t the highest quality (the plastic end caps can tend to pop off), they do their job just fine.

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