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The Weider Club 390 Power Tower – Aim for Variation to Gain Muscle

With the Weider Club 390 Power Tower you can forget about buying a set of free weights and benches, or spending frustrating hours trying to put together a complex multi-function home gym. With a power tower, your body is all the weight resistance you need. Along with some cardio workouts and a balanced diet, you won’t need anything else; you’ll have the tools for a simple and effective weight training program.

The Gym

The Weider Club 390 Power Tower is a self-contained system designed for pull-ups, dips, knee ups, and push ups. Since dips are hard for beginners, this system is for “assisted” exercises; that means it includes up to 80-lbs of resistance bands to help “lighten” the load of your body weight when performing dips and pull-ups. If you are a beginner, or your wife or young teenager will also be using the unit, the “assisted” dip/VKR 390 Power Tower is preferred over the unassisted model (the Weider Club 290). When you are strong enough to pull up your own body weight, simply fold away the pad and do the exercises on your own.

The Weider Club 390 includes:

Weider Club 390 Power Tower
  • Multi-Position Push-Up Station
  • Vertical Knee Raise w/Fold-away Arms
  • Assisted Dip Station with Fold-Away Pad
  • Assisted Multi-Grip Pull-Up Station
  • VKR Step
  • Sewn Vinyl Seats
  • Accessories included – Exercise Chart

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The Buzz

In the assisted mode, you can select the four 15-lb and 25-lb resistance bands to adjust the load incrementally until your functional strength improves and you can do the exercise unassisted. Trainers and equipment experts have found this to be a well-built power tower and is a good value compared to competitors’ models. NOTE: This $299 Weider Club 390 Power Tower is identical to power tower designs by Proform and Gold’s Gym; Icon Fitness makes them all.

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The Weider Club 390 is a very sturdy, comfortable unit, wide enough for big guys to do push ups, and just good overall value for the price. The power tower works better if it is placed on an exercise mat rather than carpeting or a hard floor, and users writing in home gym reviews also recommend you wear weight training gloves since the handles can be uncomfortable. The exercise chart that comes with the Weider Club 390 displays instructions for the stations and exercises, as well as proper form, and lists the targeted muscle group for each exercise.

Our Take

When we review multi-gyms, we like to find systems that include the chin-up and dip/VKR stations because these are some of the best strength training exercises you can do. Along with the pull-up handlebars, the Weider Club 390’s combination of exercises will help you to tone your obliques, hip flexor muscles, abs, back, shoulders, pecs, and arms. You can buy a freestanding dip station alone for around $200, or a Power Tower for $250, or go all out and get the combination assisted model for under $300. We recommend you spend a little more and get this one. The Weider Club 390 Power Tower rates a Good Buy.

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