Marcy Pro Deluxe Smith Cage Home Gym System

Assembly of the Marcy Pro Deluxe Smith Cage Home Gym System SM-7553 was relatively easy. Assembly took about 5-6 hours completed alone. With help, this time could easily be reduced. 100% of the parts were included and clearly labeled, instructions were easy to follow. I purchased the cage for my teenage boys who want to expand their weight training. This is a perfect machine for beginner to intermediate as if provides a great variety of exercises. The smith machine, set up with stop guards provides a safety component that beginners need.

Pros first Pretty much can do everything , plus I've been in the gym for many years and now for home this can do anything I want especially using your imagination with some extra equipment. I did at least a month of reaserch and for the money I decided marcy. OK for set up , my 14 year old son and I put this together watching the video in about 7 hours using a couple of real hand wrenches and air ratchet , just make sure the orientation is standing in the rack facing forward and the right side is right. One of my set backs was a couple of my top choices came with weight stacks and at a 2:1 ratio but I figured for the extra money I'm going to need a plate and bar set for outside the rack for squats , curls , etc so why spend the money just get a plate set and bar and still be less money. I know this is a 14 gauge steel and others say there are 12 or 10 but this set up is very solid and when weight is on smith machine or outside squat rack or on the attachments it doesn't move. definitely reccomend un boxing everything and un packing all the plastic and laying it out before starting and do the bench last. So it was new years eve and my son and I started this before company came over and after about 2 hours in I left him in the garage and at almost midnight he had 3/4 done alone. Hope this helps anyone hesitating on this for home but you will be very satified once completed. Cons second None of these are a deal breaker just my experience with mechanicals. I would of like to see the pulley weight stack bars be a hair shorter almost free floating as when I put the top brace on I noticed the bars kinda bowed a little bit causing them at the bottom to have some resistance without any weight on them. But I sprayed them with a silicone spray several times and seem to be working in better. The bench , great all around attachments , I will say this I definitely put 2 washers on the main pivot point to tighten up the sloppy wobble , that's just me wanting this bench super tight. These aren't really any cons just some of my opinions.