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The Weider Club 290 Power Tower – Nothing Beats a Pull-up for Building Body Strength

The Weider Club 290 Power Tower is a traditional core training home gym that offers the types of simple body weight workouts people crave. There is no exercise more effective than the classic chin-up.

The Gym

Weider Club 290 Power Tower The Weider Club 290 Power Tower is easy to assemble and allows you to perform pull-ups, chin-ups, dips for triceps, push-ups, vertical knee raises, leg raises, and oblique bends. The benefit to this kind of upright strength training is that you can get an intense ab and upper body workout without hurting your back. Mounted on the frame of the power tower is a handy VKR step so you can begin the exercise without having to jump up. A wall chart is included to give you instructions in how to do the exercises and give you tips on variations.

The Weider Club 290 includes:

  • Multi-grip Pull-up Station
  • Dip Station and Push-up Station
  • Vertical Knee Raise w/Fold-away Arms
  • VKR Step
  • Sewn Vinyl Seats
  • Dimensions – 84" x 31" x 44"
  • Accessories included – Exercise Chart

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The Buzz

Trainers love the Weider Club 290 because Power Towers offer classic strength building exercises for fast effective workouts. Pull-ups, chin-ups, and dips have long been the standard exercises for developing upper body strength and conditioning. If you cannot do unassisted chin-ups and feel you won’t be able to use the Weider Club 290 pull-up station, try this amazing alternative: Grab the handlebars in both hands and hang for about 15 seconds. Breath normally and relax, allowing the spine and vertebrae to fall into place. This simple hanging exercise is good for your back, traps, and shoulders.

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Owners of the Weider Club 290 praise the sturdy design of these models and love the “extras”; features such as the dip arms that fold back to make room for pull-ups. If you are designing a small workout room, you will save thousands of dollars by going with a Power Tower, along with some free weights and a bench, over purchasing a pricy multi-gym. Users in home gym reviews also comment about the spacesaver design of the Weider Club 290 Power Tower and that the stations are on the same side of the tower, rather than opposite sides for dips and pull-ups, which is the problem with competitor designs.

Our Take

The Weider Club 290 sells for around $249. Usually only serious weight trainers tend to buy Power Towers for their home gyms but these classic exercises are ideal for everyone, both men and women. Even if you have no other resistance training equipment in your home, you can stay in top physical shape with just dips, pull-ups, and knee raises (for the abs). Along with scheduled cardio sessions three times a week, and a proper diet, you will have the fundamentals of weight control and core training covered. We suggest that if you are a beginner you should get the assisted model, the 390, for about $50 more. Both the Weider Club 290 Power Tower and the 390 model are excellent value and rate as Good Buys.

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