Buy BodyCraft Xpress Pro Home GymBodyCraft Xpress Pro Home Gym Product Description:
- Bench Press Station with adjustable starting point
- Cable Station with adjustable arms
- Seat and seat back are adjustable
- The bodycraft xpress cable arms utilize pulleys and cables for unrestricted, completely natural, and biomechanically correct movements
- Lifetime warranty
Product Description
The XPress is unequaled in value, versatility and efficient design. Rated a Best Buy by Consumer Guide®!Shape your body, get strong, lose weight, even improve your golf swing with the BodyCraft XPress Strength Training System.
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31 of 32 people found the following review helpful.
Simply the best
By Big B
I have lifted weights any way you can, free weights, cable stacks, and nautilus machines. All of them have their advantages and disadvantages. I have owned a home gym(a soloflex machine, a good machine because of the iron plate adaptability, up to 400 lbs)and I have also been a member of a good gym. I stopped using free weights because of lower back problems(loading and unloading plates puts direct stress on the lower back). In the gym I used nautilus machines mostly and cable stacks. The cables stacks are good with any exercise. The problem is the frame for the cable stacks is large and unless you are rich with a huge room reserved for exercising, owning a cable stack machine is not feasible. The nautilus machines are a different story. Some machines are good and some are not. The best nautilus machines I have used in the gym are the life fitness machines. These machines for some exercises are more difficult than free weights(unless your lifting huge weight, over 300 pounds on chest and legs). If you don't believe me use a life fitness chest press machine and set the weight to the same weight you lift using free weights and you will see. The bodycraft xpress pro is a composite of the cable stacks and the "life fitness type feel" machines in the gym. I have owned the bodycraft for a week and there is no home gym(and I have used several)that compares to this one. The price is steep, but if you are a member of a gym you will pay your gym fee monthly forever(if you are a true gym rat). The bodycraft xpress pro is a one time "fee" with a lifetime warranty on any cable or part. Company's don't do this if their machines are not top quality.(This would be bad business) The cable arms are just one of the features that makes this machine top of the line. These arms allow a full range of motion on any conceivable exercise(and there are over 50 with just this part of the machine alone, you can check a bodybuilding book to see this fact) The bench press arm completely adjusts to any size user for the flat(vertical) bench, incline bench, shoulder press, and seated row exercises. This provides the full range of motion for all of these exercises. The leg extension/leg curl exercises is also top quality on movement and range of motion. The lat pulldown feature allows for any type of pulldown movement and variation, all with full range of motion. The most impressive feature for me(a man who at one time was bench pressing 405 lbs, 8 fourty five pound plates plus the fourty five pound olympic bar) is the 2:1 feature which gives a benchpress of 400 lbs. This is the only home gym on the market I am aware of that can do this. If you don't think this machine is real, go to the bodycraft website([...]) and find a dealer in your area. If you are lucky they might have the machine already set up so you can see for yourself. I was able to do this. After trying the flat(vertical) bench and incline bench, brother was working up a sweat and breathing hard(felt good). If you can't find a dealer where you can try the machine you can take my word for it!!!!! There is only one drawback(if it applies to you). I am 6'3 and the ab station is uncomfortable for me even with the seat at the lowest point. The high pulley takes care of this for me. Attach the ab strap to the high pulley and perform the crunch like a cable crunch in the gym. Even when you think you have a problem with this machine you don't.Simply the best
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful.
Great machine
By Terry LC
I have a older model of this (2003 or maybe 2004, if I remember correctly), and this machine is great. However, things aren't perfect when you are 6'3". For example, the horizontal handles for the bench press are a little low. This shouldn't be as big a problem on the new one, though, as I noticed there are two sets of horizontal handles. The higher one may take care of the problem. So that only matters if you are buying an older, used model. But on my machine, the seat does not go low enough (or the press bar and origin point of the cables does not go high enough) to really do bench press maneuvers the way I would really like to do them, either with the bar or the cables. With the cables, I am always pushing partially up instead of just straight out because they do not adjust high enough. With the bar, I am pushing slightly down instead of straight out. This, however, may not affect you at all depending upon your height. And again, the new press bar with the higher mount horizontal handle may take care of that on the press bar. The handles on the press bar could be a little closer together also.Anyway, even with the height problem, the best thing to me is the "outrigger" cables (what BodyCraft calls "cable station arms"). These pivot around to many angles and allow a whole new group of exercises. Even with normal functions, like bench presses, these cables allow you a new way to do the exercise. Basically, you get your normal workout machine plus a whole other set of exercises you can do with the cable outriggers.When putting this machine together, it is probably handy to find a picture on the internet (the BodyCraft website has a 360 spinning view you can use--at least when I wrote this) to look at while assembling the frame parts. The assembly manual is actually pretty good, but it is nice to look at a picture of an assembled machine. The cable stringing is not really difficult. The line drawings in the directions aren't masterpieces, but are decent enough to understand. I think if the cables were shown as MUCH thicker lines in the drawings, it would have been easier to follow the cable routing. I would suggest putting EVERYTHING together with all the bolts loose before finishing tightening anything. Anyway, it only took a couple of hours to put together, which wasn't bad at all, I thought.Kind of pricey though, but probably cheaper than lesser alternatives. I think just about all exercise equipment seems too expensive. Other than the problem I have because of my height, this machine is excellent. Well, now that I think of it, I bought a different straight bar (arm curl bar)--one that could rotate, because the grips kept spinning off the one that came with the machine and it became very annoying. A tricep rope is a good addition also. Also, and this is a problem with all cable machines I know of, it would be nice if there was a way to add just 5 pounds to a weight stack (instead of 10 because that is what each plate weighs)--like maybe a 5 pounds weight that could be put securely on top of the stack. 10 pounds is quite a bit when you are trying to hit your maximum, especially when doing one arm exercises. It seems a bit strange, too, that BodyCraft would put the seat bottom adjuster pin and the press bar adjuster pin on one side of the machine and the seat back adjuster pin on the opposite side of the machine. What's that all about? It would be handier to be able to adjust all pins from one side of the machine, so one does not have to reach around to the other side when setting things up. This really is not a big deal at all, but it is a refinement that could be made in the future.Other good stuff:1. It looks nice. The weight stack covers help tremendously in this.2. It takes up very little space for all that it does.3. It is heavy duty: larger cross-sectional tubes than many home gyms, big pulleys, etc.4. It is very stable on the floor. Nothing I do makes it tilt or move or slide around (I am 6'3" and 245 pounds).5. The cable system is very well thought out.6. The exercise chart is good.Also, after I recently broke my wrist and had my right arm go very weak due to my arm being immobilized for so long waiting for my wrist to heal, the cable system helped quite a bit because I could separate movement to my weak arm, instead of having my strong arm compensate for my weak one by having strengthening movements tied together to both arms (that might not make sense unless you think about it awhile--it sounded better in my head than it came out written).Maybe a problem stuff:1. If you have a very low ceiling in your basement like me, you could have a problem. I cut a section out of a ceiling tile so this gym would fit. Note, however that my basement ceiling is lower than normal, so you probably won't have a problem.Other stuff:1. You do not get the same weight feel with this as you do with dumbbells. In fact, you get a different feel depending upon which cable you pull on. For instance, the bottom cable at 50 pounds feels like a different weight than one of the out-rigger cables set at the same 50 pounds, and both feel different than a 50 pound dumbbell. This isn't really a problem, you just should be aware that 50 pounds of weights sliding on a rail with a cable winding around multiple pulleys means you might not necessarily have exactly 50 pounds when you are pulling on it.2. The set-up for rigging the 2-1 doubler for the press bar is shown here: bodycraftXXXX/pdfs/brochures/gyms/XpressBrochureNew09.pdf (replace the XXXX with .com and scroll down to page 2)My older model did not come with the little connector cables or the hookup points on the press bar to rig this up. However, with a little bit of effort, I am sure I can rig this up. I would assume the new models come with this set-up. If it does not, then maybe it is not the newest model and you need to ask to make sure you get the newest set-up.Anyway, I would not trade this machine for any machine without the "cable station arms". With them, you more than double the exercises you can do. So, really, maybe I shouldn't have complained about the price!
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful.Wow....what a machine!
By The Chemist
My wife got on a fitness kick and wanted me to work out as well. To be honest, I wasn't that interested, but she persisted, did the research, and said this was the machine to get. Boy, was she right. I love this thing. I went from never working out to running 2 miles a day and lifting weights five to six days a week. This machine is solid, but amazingly compact for what it offers. The quality rivals what you see in gyms, and it has a lifetime guarantee. I'm in the best shape of my life now, and enjoy working out on this machine. My wife uses it as well, and she loves it, too.
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