BodyCraft K2 Home Gym

BodyCraft K2 Home Gym

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Product Description

Shape your body, get strong, and lose weight with the BodyCraft K2 strength training system. The K2 is distinguished by its dual weight stack system, which can accommodate multiple users at the same time or quicker transitions for the single user. It's ideal for couples who want to make their workouts more efficient, or for folks who want to keep their pulse rate high while circuit training. The K2 offers two main stations. Station one incorporates a press/row/squat arm for safe, machine-style bench presses, decline presses, incline presses, shoulder presses, leveraged rows, and squats, with an adjustable bench that accommodates all the traditional angles (the bench slides out of the way for squats). The unique doubling feature, meanwhile, provides a 1:2 ratio for presses and squats, thereby delivering up to 400 pounds of resistance on the 200-pound weight stack. The press arm is even strong enough for dips and folds out of the way for dumbbell work.
Station two includes fully adjustable training/cable arms that support more than 100 exercises, including every exercise you've ever performed with dumbbells. Also a great station for sport-specific exercises, the station offers a high pulley for lat pulldowns and tricep pushdowns, a self-aligning leg extension/leg curl option, and a mid pulley for ab crunches and tricep extensions. And to make each exercise easier to perform, BodyCraft mounted exercise charts right on the machine.

Construction details include heavy-gauge steel tubing; 4.5-inch diameter, fiberglass-reinforced nylon pulleys with sealed ball bearing hubs; internally lubricated cables rated at 2,000 pounds of tensile strength; extremely dense foam upholstery with double-stitched, heavy-gauge vinyl covers; 1.25-inch-thick, precision-milled weight plates with EZ Glide nylon bushings; and a platinum gray powder-coated finish. The K2 measures 132 by 83 by 120 inches (W x H x D) and comes with a straight bar, lat bar, ankle strap, ab strap, hand grips, and a workout DVD.

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"I Love This Gym!"
By, Vance Absher

"Let me start by saying that this is an absolute first rate piece of equipment. I'm the type of person who researches a purchase like this to death before actually making it, and I could find no manufacturer of exercise equipment out there with a better reputation than Bodycraft. And get this - when you call their 800 number a HUMAN BEING answers the phone! To me, this is priceless.

Also, I put my entire gym together all by myself. My wife did help with discarding the mountain of boxes and plastic packaging that accumulated, but refused to assist with the actual assembly because of her unfounded notion that I'm too much of a perfectionist.

Anyway, solo assembly does allow one an intimate familiarity with the unit. Not only was every piece there that was supposed to be there, everything actually fit just like it should. During the whole assembly process (and close examination of each individual part), I could find NO instance where quality appeared to be compromised in any way.

I mean - the manufacturer warranties every single piece of the thing for as long as you live, so do the math. And buy it while you're young.

So of all the gym's Bodycraft makes, why did I choose the K2? In a word - SQUATS! Everything I've ever learned about fitness tells me that squats are the best single exercise you can do. And that's one exercise that's noticeably absent in most home gyms. Sure, you can do leg curls and extensions, and some even throw in a leg press. But nothing beats squats for total fitness - and this machine allows you to do them to total exhaustion, in total safety.

And when you throw in the upper, lower, and mid level cable pulleys - plus the movable arms (an idea borrowed from Bowflex's Revolution), I'd defy anyone to tell me an exercise you can't do on this gym.

Okay, now that I've got everything thinking I'm probably a Bodycraft stockholder or something, I'm going to try to pick this thing apart. So here's some bad stuff.

First of all, this thing is EXPENSIVE! I know that you get what you pay for, blah blah blah - but $3400 is still a lot of cash to lay out for exercise stuff. That's why you should buy it while you're young so the warranty will be longer, and you'll have more years over which to amortize the cost.

Also, it comes in about a gazillion boxes - none of which are even remotely light weight or easy to handle. (There's a down side to buying quality stuff - It weighs more.) It could be argued that anyone capable of muscling all these boxes into the assembly area is already in great shape, and probably doesn't need the gym anyway.

And if you haven't achieved all your fitness goals getting all the parts in your basement, don't worry. By the time you get everything unpackaged and laid out in some sort of recognizable order, you will have.

But at least, the actual assembly process isn't all that bad. The instructions are very concise and easy to follow, and having virtually every piece machined to perfection certainly helps.

One word of caution though - leave all the nuts, bolts, washers, etc. that are in labeled bags IN THOSE BAGS! The instructions will reference those parts based on those labels. If you take them out, you'll have to measure each individual bolt to figure out whether or not it's the one you're looking for.

Oh... and don't forget to drink lots of fluids.

Once assembly is complete though, and you get a little feel for the K2, you'll realize that the lifetime warranty Bodycraft gives you probably isn't ever going to come into play. This is one well built gym!

On a somewhat funny side-note, I had ordered Bowflex's DVD a few weeks prior, and they called me about the time I'd finished putting the K2 together to see if I was ready to order a new Bowflex. After explaining that I'd bought a Bodycraft over the Bowflex - because I'd never seen a Bowflex in a commercial gym, etc., the lady thanked my politely and told me whenever I get ready to UPGRADE to a Bowflex, to give them a call.

Folks, trust me on this one - If you own this gym, the word "upgrade" isn't even applicable. And if you've endured the assembly process, you ain't gonna be changing nothing for quite awhile!

In summary, if you're looking for a commercial quality gym for the home, you've got about 10' X 12' of good solid floor space, and $3,400 to invest in your future health, I can't imagine investing it more wisely."

"K2 is Excellent"
By, Scott Smith "jimbo" (Bossier City, LA)

"I certainly concur with Vance Absher's excellent review of the BodyCraft K2 home gym. This is one serious piece of weight equipment, built with commercial type quality.

I also assembled the product myself, and although it seemed at first to be a very daunting task, due to the tremendous amount of equipment, nuts, bolts, pulleys, etc., I found, like Vance that the instructions were easy to understand and everything fit perfectly. I spent about 2 to 3 hours a day during the week and 7 hours on Saturday to finish the work. Believe me, if I could do it anyone who can turn a wrench can do it. It's just time consuming for a novice!

Like Vance, I too researched many machines before I made my decision on the K2. It paid off because I have not one bit second guessed my choice. The outstanding quality is evident, everything has a heavy, solid, but smooth feel. You know you have quality when every piece fits perfectly like a jigsaw puzzle.

The sheer number of excercises and ways to do many of the excercises is just outstanding. Being able to work the same muscles in different ways is a huge plus. An example would be using the movable arm to do bench presses and then going over to the fixed arm bench press to do the same exercise in a different way. The leg extension is the most comfortable leg extension I've ever used anywhere, including health clubs. This machine will help most anyone reach their fitness goals in a very effective but comfortable way.

I can't think of too many downsides, but here are two rather minor nuances: The leather/vinyl cover over the leg extension/squat pads do not fit very well on my machine. They seem to be rather loose fitting, but it does not affect the effectiveness of the exercise. Also, if you use your machine a lot, you will at times have to untangle pulley cables. This may involve taking a pulley off and allowing the cable to untwist. This is similar to a telephone cord getting tangled.

In the end, this machine is pure quality through and through. Please, please do not settle for department store stuff, along with gimmicky promotion! I've been through all of that (including bowflex, soloflex, rickety department store gyms) in my 50 years of life. I say save your money and get the best, once!"

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