The Weider Pro Fury System: What Were They Thinking?

The Weider Pro Fury system is the cheapest functional trainer on the market — and not in a good way. It boasts an innovative (if unnecessary) arc design, but even that feature can’t overcome the limited range of motion offered to the user while performing exercises.

The Gym

The Weider Pro Fury system comes with a 100-lb stack, a removable bench, and six pulley stations for upper body development. It also has a 4-role leg developer for the quads, hamstrings, glutes, and hip flexors.

The specs on the Weider Pro Fury include:

• 100 lbs Vinyl Cast Weight Stack
• 2 High Pulleys
• 2 Low Pulleys
• 2 Mid Pulleys
• Removable, Adjustable Bench
• 4-roll Leg Developer

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The Buzz

The Weider Pro Fury has a quite a few limitations starting with just 100-lbs of weight, a low resistance which most men will quickly outgrow. It is also built with cheap components — such as the vinyl weight stack (a good system will use iron) — and doesn’t offer any particular feature that makes it a stand-out gym. Quality functional trainers range in price from $1,800 to $4,000, and Weider is trying to dupe an uneducated public into buying an inferior knock-off.

There aren’t many reviews on the Pro Fury, which must mean it isn’t a big seller. We won’t waste your time on a long review, but we would mention that Weider does make several excellent budget gyms; for example, the Weider Max Home Gym does everything this system will do, and it offers more resistance, more features, and costs about $200 less than this product.

Our Take

At $799, the Weider Pro Fury is a poorly designed functional trainer. Keep in mind that it has three pulley heights – all at fixed starting points, which defeats the purpose of getting full Range of Motion from cable gym functional training! Just to show you what we mean, compare it to the Powertec Shape System, which has two pulleys on a sliding carriage so you can pick your own starting positions, and its frame is wide enough for cable crossover work. The Fury? Nope. The pulleys are too close together to perform those exercises. There isn’t one thing we like about the Weider Pro Fury system. Not recommended.

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