Sportsroyals Home Gym, Multifunctional Home Gym Equipment, Workout Station with 154LBS Weight Stack, Exercise Equipment for Full Body Traning with Pulley System

Great machine
Great machine for the price, comes in four boxes fairly easy to assemble all parts are labeled with what step your doing. Bolt package also is numbered with step 1 step 2 etc. Just pay attention of how to route your cables & where pulleys are located as for the stability, it’s stable I’m 6.0 ft 285. Doesn’t wable or shake when working out. As for the workout it’s a great machine complete work out hadn’t worked out in 15 years turning 57 yeah you start feeling the burn again with this machine using muscles that I hadn’t used in a while. No complaints all in all great machine.

A nice but limited exercise machine, arrived quickly but with some damaged parts.
It’s not easy to design a multifunctional exercise machine. We purchased this because our Weider Crossbow Advantage had developed limitations. It uses fiberglass rods or crossbows that mimic weight resistance when flexed using pulleys. Over time, their resistance decreased and their covered cables deteriorated. Alas, that company no longer exists.The Sportsroyals machine is a real, weight-stack machine that is MIC but pretty solid once assembled. While it has many functions, it’s not as versatile as the Crossbow. Amazingly, it arrived 2 days after we ordered it in 4 separate boxes, labeled 1-4. Box 1 arrived damaged and partially open. Two pulleys from that box were damaged and I have contacted the company for replacements. The parts are logically arranged and labeled in numbered steps. Tools are supplied, but a ratchet wrench with 14, 17 and 19 mm sockets will make assembly much easier. Eventually, you will need the supplied tools but they were actually in box 2, which you may want to open along with box 1. Boxes 3 & 4 contain the weights. A hand truck comes in handy. Assembly is straight forward but will take 3-5 hours. Getting the frame installed is easier with 2 people. There are a lot of carriage bolts that fit poorly in their square slots. To get them seated takes more torque than should be required. There are a few errors in the written assembly instructions. The nomenclature of parts can be odd – they call washers “flat pads.” When the instructions mention a “disk,” it refers to a cardboard pad that has the hardware arranged and supplied tools in their numbered steps. The assembly video on this Amazon product website is extremely helpful. Once construction starts, moving the machine becomes increasingly difficult. There are no supplied wheels and the machine is very heavy. Once the weights have been installed, you can pretty much forget about moving it, so place it where you plan to use it including some space in front of it where you might want to sit or recline. I found installing the sponge cushions quite difficult until I applied soapy water to their metal tubes.Using the machine requires adjusting the position of the upper hanging pulley on part number 21 (you’ll see). Otherwise, the top weight will not drop. We needed to adjust the position of that pulley to the 3rd hole from the top. Using the machine is mostly done while sitting on it with a few exercises done sitting on the floor in front of it. There are not a lot of possible adjustments. The backrest and swing-arms are adjustable. There is a “hand cushion” that is about 1/2 the size of a chair seat cushion. It can be raised and lowered, but it has otherwise very limited function. Other than adding or subtracting the weights with which you exercise, nothing else is adjustable. The weight sizes are labeled on 2 sheet metal covers that arrived with many dents in them. The weights go from 8.8#, to 22# (about 10 kg) and then in increments of 13# all the way up to 154#, which should be adequate for most exercise enthusiasts. (From my days on the college weight-lifting team, I learned that doing many repetitions was better at building strength and endurance than doing one massive lift and getting hurt.) The enclosed assembly manual has illustrations of 15 exercises you can do written in somewhat poor English (remember, it’s MIC…). In comparison, our old Weider Crossbow has over 65 exercises. The exercise instructions advise making adjustments, such as, “Adjust the round sponge holder to the lowest level,” that are plainly not present or possible. If you find that operating the machine with just modest weights suddenly becomes unusually difficult, check to make sure that the cord is in the pulley groove and not being pinched by its bracket. That can be caused by a loose cable.In summary, this is a nice exercise machine with some limitations. Hopefully, I’ll receive replacement pulleys for the ones that arrived damaged. The dented covers, I can live with. Moving the machine will require at least some disassembly, so don’t lose the instructions or the tools!