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» Weight Benches | | | | | | | Product Promotions: | | | | | Description: | | The Phoenix Power Pro Olympic Bench is a heavy-duty, full Olympic-size bench constructed with a 3" steel frame and uprights for durability and long life. A leg lift is included along with a deluxe lat tower and preacher curl to maximize the number of exercises that can be performed. There are storage stands at the rear of the bench for the preacher curl & lat tower when not in use. | | | Features: | |
• Full Olympic-size bench with incline, decline, and flat bench positions
• Comes with leg lift, lat tower, and preacher curl attachments
• Heavy-duty 3-inch steel frame built for stability and long life
• Built-in squat rack in the rear; 3 Olympic weight plate adapters and spring clips
• Measures 88 x 83 x 60 inches (W x H x D); 1-year frame warranty
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 88.0 inches | | Product Width:
| 60.0 inches | | Product Height:
| 83.0 inches | | Product Weight:
| 138.0 pounds | | Package Length:
| 70.5 inches | | Package Width:
| 23.0 inches | | Package Height:
| 8.5 inches | | Package Weight:
| 142.0 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 2 reviews |
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2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
 Very Heavy DutyJan 13, 2008
This is a great bench. Its everything in the description and more. You need a little time to put it together, but well worth the cost..
29 of 29 found the following review helpful:
 Ok for price if you're not too tall.Oct 24, 2005
For the price this low-end home gym is generally able to do the things I wanted a cheap home gym to do. However, there are a few issues you need to consider before buying it. The biggest issue is ergonometric - this unit is not designed to be used by anyone over perhaps 5'10" or 5'11". I'm 6'1" and this creates problems for me. I have to find work-arounds to use a unit designed for people smaller than me. The problem is that form is very important when doing the exercises (when you don't pay attention to form, you either reduce the effectiveness of the exercise or risk injury) and finding work-arounds sometimes compromises your form during the exercise.
There are also a few quality issues but these were not entirely unexpected considering the price of the unit. It would have been nice if the bench padding were a little better but its adequate. The two most annoying quality issues involve the plate bars (the bars that hold the weights). This first issue was with the plate bar on the lat tower (cable) unit. It wasn't level. This means the weights keep trying to fall off one side as you put them on. The second issue is also with the plate bars. The unit is designed to accommodate standard plates (small holes in the middle) or Olympic plates (big holes in the middle). A "sleeve" is included with the unit that slips over the standard size plate bar that enables one to use Olympic plates (big holes). However the outer diameter of the sleeve is slightly smaller than standard Olympic size so an Olympic size spring collar (to hold the weights on the bar) is too big and doesn't work. I went down to Home Depot and bought wood clamps to hold the plates in place. Kind of a pain but functional (just another work-around). If you buy this unit you probably want to go with standard plates (small hole) rather than Olympic plates (big hole).
So I put this at 4 stars because for this price you really can't expect too much and it generally delivers what I expected a cheap home gym unit to do - with the one caveat: persons over 5'10" should try to find a home gym designed for taller people. Since only 5% of the US population is over 6 feet tall manufacturers tend to design for smaller people. If you're tall, good luck on that search.
Follow-up note. At this time of the writing above this unit was sold by several vendors on Amazon so its worth comparing the pricing. When I say above that this unit is OK "for the price" means the price I paid for it not the price necessarily listed here now. At the current price (on 7/7/07) I would only list it as 2 stars but could not see how to change the star rating.
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