JX FITNESSSincMill Home Gym Multifunctional Full Body Workout Equipment for Home Exercise Fitness

The media could not be loaded. I'm writing this review to describe my experience with the SincMill SCM-1148L. I did a lot of research and shopping for a home workout setup. I watched You tube video's and also checked out the versatility and functionality of the most sought after setup's. First and foremost, this was an excellent buy. For the money your getting one heck of a workout center. This is a unit that has a very robust setup and is super solid and made for extensive workouts. I will outline what I think might be important to mention or at least was important to me.First: This package came in 4 boxes. They were heavy. Make sure you have help moving the boxes to where ever your going to put this unit together. The weight boxes were super heavy by them selves. The packaging was extremely solid and put together for shipping. NO problems there. And I was not missing any of the parts at all.Second: Putting this unit together was actually easy. In that I mean the directions were very laid out and easy to follow. I would think that the manufacturer could make the diagrams bigger or explode them up a little to see the parts flow in the directions. There are blowups on integral parts thought, which is good. I actually used the video's on You Tube that outline, in 3D, the installations step by step in great detail. I probably watched the video more and only referred to the instruction manual when things got confusing. I went back and forth on the video, stopping and pausing the video in each and every step. The first cable installation (Youtube video) was confusing as it flows right into the second cable install. (Watch my video as I outline the first cable install). The flow of the cables and how to install them can be confusing. But all in all it is easy and once you get the hang of it installing the cables, it is easy. The parts layout and the nuts, bolt, washers and all were laid out in the order of the steps to put it together. Which was an awesome advantage for following the directions on the video as the video also mentions the part numbers as you go through the video.. I put this unit together in roughly 4 hours. If you have a second person handy have them help you. Will make the steps super easier.Third: The actuation of the cables and moving the various parts of the machine is super smooth and the noise level is super quiet. When lifting and using the machine the resistance is very nice and flows evenly. It is important to mention that the space saving and foot print is awesome. As you can see from the video my area is small, yet I have room to move around.Finally I have no complaints. There is nothing bad to say about this workout center. All pro's. If I had one thing to advise you on it would be that if your super tall then you might want to consider a larger machine. I am 6' tall and I have no problems with the leg press or using the seats and leg extension unit. All the pieces fit together and work together quite nice and there is no binding or banging around.I would absolutely purchase this again and would recommend this to anyone wanting an upgrade for working out at home. Especially for the money. Once again, thank you Amazon for selling an excellent item.Thanks.

First of all, the TL;DR of this review is that I found the whole set to be good but not great. Depending on your height you will have a lot of difficulty finding full range of motion especially with the leg press, extension, and leg curl. The quality of the machine is overall good and I would recommend it ONLY for absolute beginners, people shorter than 5'8", and people not weighing more than 350lb for safety.Let me start by saying that I am about 5'6", 180lb, and I have very limited experience with working out. I am still a novice at workouts but I know what "feels" right when performing an exercise. So, please keep that in mind when I describe my limitations in this review.Moving on to the shipment and building process. All four boxes arrived at the same time days earlier than what I was originally expecting them to come. The boxes were a little beat up but all the parts inside were seemingly none the worse for wear. I built this whole set over the course of two nights for a combined total of 6hrs including the time it took to add lubrication to pulley wires and joints for best movement. I built it by myself with my own tools and I would recommend that if you were to build this to have a friend help you when attaching the top bar. The instructions provided with the set are straightforward and the pictures are better than the written instructions especially when it came time to set up the pulley wires. Initially I one of the pulleys one peg too low which cause the whole resistance to be off but once I raised it I had optimal resistance. But what about using the set?Beginning at the top, the lateral pull down was too short for even me. I did not use a chain like you may see on the product images above because even just hooked straight onto the cable the lateral pulldown bar provided no resistance at the top which forced me to lean a little more back than I normally need to when using commercial gym lat pull down machines. Using the provided adjustable hand grip attachments I was able to get a very good feeling triceps pull down, face pulls, and triceps extension exercises from the machine with just low weights.Next the chest press, flys, and rows. The chest exercises were about just right. I had to raise the seat two the second hole to be able to exercise my chest rather than my shoulders when doing chest presses and flys although once again I felt that tension was being released too early before I even had the arms pulled back to resting position. One of my major complaints about the whole set is that the seat is not adjustable forward or backwards which I felt could have resolve a large part of my range of motion issues I experienced. Such as when I tried doing upper seated rows but could perform them well because the only way I could keep enough distance to let my arms extend to stretch my back muscles was to sit way back almost on the leg cushions.Next are the lower body sections of the set. I was really excited to use this particular set because of the leg press, extension, and curl parts of the machine. Unfortunately, this is the part that let me down the most. When you see the pictures of these fine gentlemen demonstrating the leg press attachment on many of the machines you see on this sight you may notice that their legs look almost completely extended while at rest. It's because they are. I found that if I sat normally in the seat my legs would be 3/5ths of the way extended out before even pressing which only provided at most a half rep of what could be considered a good leg press. I needed to scooch myself down to where most of my lower back was on the bottom part of the seat to be in the correct position to perform a full range of motion leg press with tension remaining in the hamstrings, quads, and glutes. Furthermore, to my shock, I felt that the 160lb limit was too light to use the leg press for anything other than high rep sets. The leg extension was almost fine but I still needed to sit up further in the seat, my back off of the back rest, to have my legs keep tension for more than half the movement. The leg curls were a nightmare to adjust to. I needed to lean on the handle bars, push back with the leg that was going to perform the exercise with but plant the other leg much more forward to brace myself to perform the movement without the leg cushion rolling under my shoe at the bottom and top of the movement.Lastly are the bottom attachments. The rows may have been the most straightforward exercise of the whole set and I have the least to say as it worked just fine. However, using the same lower cable to perform a bicep curl and modified RDL were not as uneventful. At just 70lb of selected resistance I was lifting up the entire front end of the set when performing curls and a modified RDL lift using the lateral pulldown bar. I used a weighted vest in the seat to help reduce the amount it was lifted but I still felt the need to stand directly on the bar slightly to keep the set steady while using the lower attachment when performing these exercises.As you may have gathered from this review so far, I was not overall satisfied with my purchase and I decided to return this set. I was very nervous about completing this return and after only using it for nearly 3 weeks I considered if it was worth returning due to the size, complexity of disassembly, and repackaging. Thankfully, I was able to reach out to the seller of this particular set and this is where the 5 star review comes in. I used amazon's message seller feature and within an hour was in contact with the seller who was empathetic to the struggle that I faced with their product. I am happy to say that through discussing with them my dilemma I was able to be provided with a very satisfactory solution to complete my return and received a full refund without any issues.I do fully believe that this gym set is of good quality, can provide good resistance and adequate exercise but with a few caveats. I do not believe that any over the height of 5'8" or over the weight of 350lbs would be able to use this set without having worse range of motion issues. I believe that if you are considering this set you must be aware that this set will work better if you plan to use it for high reps (15-30), high sets (5+), at lower weights (60%-80% of your working sets). Mixing in a little bit of free weight exercises as well as some body weight exercises along with this machine can provide a decent workout routine for a good price value especially when this set is being sold on sale. If you are a brand new beginner with no experience at all this set can be a solid starting point but I encourage anyone looking for more resistance, heavier weights, or more strength training oriented plans to consider before buying this review.So overall I would rate the quality of this set to be a pretty solid 4 stars for exercise equipment. For beginners this set could be what you need but for the more experienced or for people who want something more similar to what is available in commercial gyms I would say consider other options. Once again, I give this product a 5 star review only because of the wonderful customer service I was provided by the seller despite my issues with the set.Respectfully,An Amazon Bargain Hunter

I have been using this for about a month now, so I can offer some info on what I've experienced so far. First, it does take a few hours to assemble. I spent about 45 minutes unboxing it all and then spent about six hours assembling by myself. I really liked the nuts and bolts being in plastic wrapped cardboard sheets that were labeled by step numbers. Steps 1-6 were all on one "sheet", then 7-13 etc, all to match the instructions in order. Very nice. It took a little time to learn all the setup steps for different exercises but it pretty much does everything that I could do at the gym. Some steps are limited such as back and stomach, and the range of motion is limited for quad curls as well as shoulder flys. One thing is the weight stack starts with 10lbs and immediately jumps by 15lb increments up to max of 160. I prefer a smaller increment below 50-60lbs so I ordered the 7x10lb weight set from the sincmill website ($45 with free ship) and will substitute some of those for some of the 15lb blocks currently in place. Overall, this is a pretty well designed machine that has some clever engineering involving the pulleys and cable runs, the chest/back press action and the overall sense and feel of reasonable quailty, especially the various pivot bushings. It's not a large commercial unit but it's good enough and worth the price.