Brendan Murray

Compact, versatile pulley system
This review is for this unit + the adjustable lever arms. When I bought my rack, a Titan T3, I bought a relatively inexpensive high/low pulley system with it and got tons of mileage out of it. Lat pulldowns, rows, and tricep pushdowns all felt solid. I wanted a pulley tower or functional trainer for years, but square footage is critical and my ceilings are somewhat short. This tower happened to check all of my boxes: - Not needing to anchor it to my wall (but still having the option to) is huge. I have 35 lb plates that I don’t use anyway and between the weight of the unit itself and just two plates, this thing is solid. - The small footprint plus the adjustable arms makes this essentially a compact & versatile functional trainer. I haven’t seen anything else like it on the market yet. - You’re paying slightly more than what a basic short pulley tower costs but it feels like this product is currently in a league of its own. I think assembly used to be an issue before the manufacturer made an instructional video (which I found extremely helpful), I have just two recommendations to make: - The instructions note you should use a rubber mallet if you have one: mine definitely came in handy. - The hardest part for me was stringing the cable through the lever arms: this is much easier if you first run a piece of string through one end, tie it to the cable, and pull it through. For reference, I put this together while watching the Ravens/Steelers wild-card game, and was 90% complete at the end of it (if I knew the string trick I mentioned above I would have finished earlier). The one con I can list is that the plastic pulleys don’t feel as smooth as I’m used to, but there is a lot more travel on a tower than there is with the basic 2 pulley system I had earlier.
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