The BodyCraft K1 Home Gym – The Best Horizontal Gym Ever Designed

What is impressive about the BodyCraft K1 Home Gym is that it combines the selectorized weight stack and traditional bench press station you crave, with limitless range of motion Press Arms for functional training exercises. Furthermore, the horizontal design is simple and brilliant.

The Gym

The BodyCraft K1 Home Gym comes with cable arms that provide unrestricted free motion for completely natural, multi-directional training, enabling you to mimic dumbbell exercises or sports specific movements. The home gym also has a comfortable 3-position leg station for curls, extensions, and a 45-degree position for knee hold-down (for decline presses). The BodyCraft K1 includes:

• 200-lb Weight Stack
• Multi-position Press Arms
• Bench Press Station
• Squat Attachment
• Ab Crunch
• Low Pulley Station
• High Pulley Station
• Leg Extension / Curl Station
• Flat-Incline-Decline Bench
• Dimensions – 100"L x 56"W x 83"H
• Warranty: lifetime frame and parts
• Accessories: Lat Bar, ankle strap, 2 single pull handles, exercise DVD, and an exercise chart mounted on the frame

Options: Leg Press ($600)

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The Buzz

Consumer products review sites are impressed with the lifetime warranty (on everything!) as the key indicator of how BodyCraft stands behind its machines. The K1 home gym is made of heavy gauge steel tubing, and features high quality 4 1/2" pulleys rotating on sealed ball bearing hubs, 2000-lb tension cable, and quality stitching in the adjustable vinyl bench. This unit also includes double-up cabling that converts the resistance ratio to 2:1 — that means the 200-lb stack can be maxed to 400-lbs of resistance.

Users like that the BodyCraft K1 home gym keeps all exercise stations in a handy front-facing location. The K1 allows you to perform cable crossover exercises, tricep presses, lat pulls, kickbacks, leg curls, leg extensions, and a slew of sports specific motions such as a tennis or golf swing. You will especially like the horizontal bench press station that works with both standard and Olympic weights. Lastly, the squat attachment feels quite comfortable, and has a squeeze lever on the handle which lets you start and stop at the top of the movement.

Our Take

Since the K1 home gym includes a squat station and double-up straps for 400-lbs of resistance, you can skip the $600 Leg Press attachment entirely since you can work the legs and trunk with squats. That brings the sale price down on this BodyCraft home gym to an affordable $2,199, which is the same price as the compact BodyCraft Xpress Pro. If you have the space in your home, we highly recommend this one, the BodyCraft K1 Home Gym, for its excellent value and design, quality construction, and lifetime warranty.

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