The Weider Platinum Plus Home Gym – High Tech Resistance Training

The Gym

The Weider Platinum Plus home gym promises no more fussing around with bows or weight stacks and pins, because it uses Digital Controls allowing the user to press a button to increase resistance in 1-lb increments. The Personal Trainer console has four LCD windows to show your current exercise, resistance, reps, and sets. It has nine Preset workouts (3 strength, 3 toning, and 3 calorie burn) to choose from.

The Weider Platinum Plus includes:

• 240 lbs of Digital Control Resistance
• Personal Trainer Control, 9 Workouts
• High Pulley Station
• Low Pulley Station
• Ultimate Squat™ Station
• Rowing Seat
• 6-Roll Leg Developer
• Folding Bench
• Dimensions – 94"L x 47"W x 85"H
• Accessories included – Ankle and Hand Straps, Ab Strap, Exercise Chart

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The Buzz

With the quick-change motorized adjustments, the Weider Platinum Plus is designed to get those 20-minute daily workouts done without wasting time changing set-ups. The pluses are the high and low pulley stations which support 55 exercises, and the squat station has foam shoulder supports, but the overall impression of this home gym machine is that it is somewhat uncomfortable. The workouts cover all the basics, but there is too much gimmick in this design for the pros to endorse it.

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At 85" tall, the Weider Platinum Plus might (barely) fit in a basement with low 7’ ceilings, and that might be your first and only issue with it. Home gym reviews on this product are rare, and only so-so when you can find one. When they do, they complain that the Weider Platinum Plus system is hard to set up. As for needing an LCD window to count your reps and sets … who can’t count to 10? For $500, you should spend your hard-earned money on an indestructible set of iron weight plates and a solid rack such as you’ll find in the Weider C720 Home Gym System.

Our Take

Our first concern was the digital built-in trainer and wondered, who would use or need such a thing on what is advertised as the “World’s First Electronically Controlled” home gym? The Weider Platinum Plus retails for $1,599 but we’ve seen it on sale for as low as $499 -- and that actually tosses up more nervous red flags than shouts of "It’s a steal!" We recommend you skip the hype (and the on-board computer) and go with a more reliable system with traditional resistance. The Weider Platinum Plus home gym is Not Recommended.

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