Product Description

This 150 pounds home gym will maximize your flexibility to meet your exercise goal and boost your endurance.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #105798 in Sports & Outdoors
• Brand: Marcy
• Model: MD1559
• Released on: 2007-09-15

Features

• Home gym with 2-by-2.75-inch heavy-duty tube frame and 150-pound weight stack
• Upright bench with innovative press arm design that converts to vertical flies
• Leg developer offers ideal pivot points for correct joint alignment
• Adjustable bicep pad and built-in lat bar; solid-steel weight stack covers
• Includes exercise chart; measures 65 x 81 x 40 inches (W x H x D); 2-year warranty

Amazon.com Product Description
Enjoy a strenuous full-body workout in the comfort of your garage or guest bedroom with the Marcy Diamond Elite MD1559 home gym. Outfitted with a 2-by-2.75-inch heavy-duty tube frame and a 150-pound weight stack, the gym offers everything you need to work out your chest, lats, hamstrings, quads, arms, and more. The home gym is built around an upright bench with a pair of butterfly arms, with an innovative press arm design that converts to vertical flies without requiring you to make time-consuming adjustments. The dual-action leg developer, meanwhile, offers a perfectly aligned pivot point to lessen the impact on your knee. _And thanks to the adjustable bicep pad and built-in lat bar, it's a breeze to strengthen and tone your biceps, triceps, back, and more.

Other features include solid-steel weight stack covers; deluxe, high-density two-tone upholstery; 2,000-pound tensile-strength aircraft cables; an instructional step-by-step exercise chart that describes how to exercise all the major muscle groups; and a durable powder-coated finish. The gym measures 65 by 81 by 40 inches (W x H x D) and carries a two-year warranty on parts.

Customer Reviews

Marcy Home Gym
Purchased from [...]. I am a 40+ amateur female bodybuilder. I put this together with my 12 y.o. son in about 2 1/2 hours. I have been training at home for 2 years with free weights and needed a lat pull machine along with leg machine. The pec/fly & chest press feature does not offer full range of motion, but I use dumbbells anyway. The vinyl weights do not slide incredibly smoothly...hope this improves with use. Lat pull is adequate although I needed to shorten it up for full range of motion and remove the arm curl pad. I will be replacing the C chain clips with carbineer clips for quick release on chains. Leg extension and leg curl are mediocre...not 100% ergonomically correct...too high for me and I am 5'6". I will be tweaking this with a board under my thigh to give some extra lift. Looks are nice and it is compact. [...]. This machine will not improve on the work accomplished with dumbbells for flys/presses. Low pulley is good for curls and seated rows, upright rows....full range of motion. Seems to be constructed solidly. [...]!

Just what i needed
We purchased this at a fitness/ sports store near our home during the holiday discounts- got a very good deal.

We set it up in our basement in just about 2 hours. Not complicated at all. The instructions weren't perfect, but we managed! We also had to move it later to add foam mats underneath, and it wasn't too much of a bear.

After a couple of weeks of use, there were only a few minor complaints. Like the previous reviewer, i had to make adjustments to the accessory chains etc to fit my ideal range of motion. I'm only 5'1", so some of the motions are a little long/high for me. It is unfortunate that none of the seat parts are adjustable. If we were looking to spend more, this would have been a great feature, given our range in height (he's 6'1"!). Given that, the leg extensions are still proper for me. The biggest drag is that the slider bars (where the weights slide up and down) are not thoroughly lubricated. So when i'm being a light weight (< 20 lbs), the resistance is gone on retraction. We are going to try lubing the bars with some silicone to help this. We might need to add some to the pulley wires to slip it all up a bit.

The set came with locking C- shaped "carabiners", which are a pain for switching accessories. We picked up a couple of regular ones to replace them. We also purchased adapter plates for our weight stack (2.5 and 5 lbs plates) in order to extend the flexibility.

It was a great addition to our home gym. We had to purchase a couple extras to make it the most convenient and maximize its use. However, for what we paid for it, we are totally fine with that!