Sunny Health & Fitness Premium Smith Machine & Squat Cage Rack, Pull-Up Bar, Spotter Blocks for Weightlifting & Bench Press for Home Gym Strength Training

Good assembly instructions, solid bare-bones home smith machine for beginner/intermediate lifter
I’ve assembled several pieces of home gym equipment over the past couple of years, and this one was the best to assemble by far. I did it by myself in a couple of hours, and it would have been even easier had I had another set of hands to help (there are some awkward steps that would be easier with 2 people, but its certainly doable with just one person). The instructions are great and the hardware is laid out and labelled by step #, which makes assembly a breeze and actually quite enjoyable if you like that sort of thing.The machine itself is better quality than I was expecting, and it looks nice. It was pretty well-packed, but the package was a bit beat up and there were some cosmetic imperfections due to shipping, but no damage that cause it to be unusable.Immediately upon assembly I was disappointed with the up/down sliding action, but I re-tightened all of the bolts and greased the shiny uprights and now it’s smooth as butter. As long as you don’t angle one side of the bar higher than the other, it glides up and down without any issues and it’s easy to rack/re-rerack. My machine seems pretty stable and there is hardly any wobble at all, although I suspect if you lifted really heavy and loaded it anywhere near capacity it would probably wobble if you started pushing on the sides. It’s more stable than I was expecting it to be.If you are looking for a very simple smith machine to help with your workout and you aren’t going to be lifting super heavy, this is a good budget option that has a relatively small footprint in the home gym. I can’t speak to adding accessories to it as that’s not something I researched or plan to do.My one complaint is that the knurling on the bar isn’t aggressive (it’s not really knurling at all, but some small diamond-shaped indentions, which look nice but don’t really do anything), so if your hands are sweaty it’s harder to twist and re-rack.

Bad Design
First, the package arrived damaged and the Weight Plate Holders and Weight Plate Holder Sleeves were missing. But to make matters worse the actual machine doesn’t function properly. I spent hours assembling it just to find out that the barbell doesn’t glide smoothly at all. Complete waste of time. I didn’t notice it before, but other Smith Machines have cylinder/round glide rods. This one has cube/square glide rods and they constantly catch—terrible design. You can’t even use it. Why would they make it like this? You get what you pay for, I guess… But in that case, this is one expensive giant pullup bar when I wanted a Smith Machine. Now I have to go through the hassle of returning it.

Llega en dos cajas grandes muy protegido. Las instrucciones son claras, en un par de horas lo armé. Solo para el último paso que es colocar la barra olímpica en las barras guía, se requieren dos personas. Durante el ejercicio el aparato se siente profesional, la barra desliza muy suave y se siente muy robusto. Para las dominadas no se mueve nada. Se ve que durará mucho tiempo.

Its way more stable than it looks. Put a few 25’s on the pegs and that baby aint goin nowhere. Assembly was easy but I recommend getting a good wrench, the provided ones are turbo buttocks. The exercise variations with this one thing are endless. I would suggest also getting a bench, some bands, and maybe a 1inch barbell to go with it. Obviously this is not a power lifter’s rack. But for body building its way more than enough