Valor FitnessBD-62 Wall Mounted Cable Machine with Adjustable Dual Pulley System Functional Home Gym Workout Equipment

If you are looking for a device with a small footprint that allows a variety of exercises in multiple planes at a very reasonable price point, this could be perfect for you. Assembly could have been made easier. Labels on the hardware and parts would have helped. But I put it together by myself and I think it took me under an hour, and I am not especially handy. You will need wrench and either a second wrench or, better, ratchet, and you will need a big Phillips screwdriver (there are just two screws that require that screwdriver).I found the mechanism surprisingly smooth.Pros:Low price for what you get.Small footprint (about 4 square feet)Smooth actionAbility to adjust height of the pivot pointAbility to use plates with 1" or 2" holes.1:1 resistance (10 pound plate adds 10 pounds of resistance; if you use only one handle it is 2:1 -- adding 10 pounds of weight adds 5 pounds of resistance)Can use one hand or twoComfortable handles with some adjustability (and can easily swap out to other handles, bar, rope, etc.)Pulleys can swivel somewhat allowing exercises that change angle of pullSturdyConsInstructions/labeling not terrible but could be better.You do need to anchor it (but there is no way to have both a small footprint and no need to anchor; because I hope to be moving fairly soon, and as mentioned am not especially handy, I was able to position mine in a place where I could use a ratchet strap to secure it, and not have to mar the wall.)I would recommend this product to a friend. (Actually, I already recommended it to two friends).EDIT: I have now had this unit for about a year. I use it about twice a week. I am at least as pleased with the purchase now as I was then. And the price is actually a couple bucks cheaper now. If you are thinking about it, get it. If you use it you will get more than your money's worth.ADDITIONAL EDIT: To clarify the ratio, it is only one to one if you either use both handles at once or clip into both cables. So you can choose 2:1 (10# load provides 5# resistance) or 1:1 (10# load provides 10# resistance). Bonus! The posts are 1" diameter. Olympic plates (2" hole will work fine, but if you want them to fit snugly you will need to get the adapters. Those just slide onto the existing pin. I had a bunch of old 1" plates so I cleaned them up, painted them and now they stay on or near this machine. It's a great addition to a home gym, allowing you to do many of the things you might want to do in a commercial gym.

Update: 9/16/2019 - I’m coming up on two years of using this great piece of equipment and I still highly recommend it. Since I bought it I found numerous ways to modify it for even more uses by using different attachments and combination of attachments. The only limit is your imagination. I’ve had no issues with any of the parts they’re all still working just as they did two years ago. A great piece of workout equipment!And what a great value! I just got mine setup in a spare room and it not only doesn't take up much room at all, but it works great. Plenty of range of motion.I have a bunch of equipment in my garage, but when it gets cold it is such a pain to go out and fire up the propane torpedo to heat up the place. This will allow me to get through winter without having to join some gym and blow a bunch of money, put up with all those people hogging the equipment just to sit there and text and send selfies of themselves. Or want to talk to you when you're just trying to get your workout done and get out. For the price I paid for the BD-62 I would only get 7 months of gym membership. But I own it and after that it's a free ride.. in the comfort of my own home where I can come in in my underwear and yell and cuss to get that last rep without worrying about getting kicked out.One question was can you do crossovers with it. You might not think with the two cables being close together you can't, but you totally can. Well chest flys anyway. I attached the included handles at the longest length connection and you can totally wrap around in a crossover type exercise with them. Great.Some have mentioned that it's not tall enough for lat pulldowns and it might be kinda limiting on that one single exercise depending on your height (you can sit on the floor). I built a pedestal to bring it up a little higher but not so high you loose the lower angle. You can hit your lats with other exercises like the single arm pulldown that you can do standing up.I had looked at a big full sized functional trainer that was awesome. But it was $2000... and as compact as this one was compared to some others I was considering it would still take up a lot of room. I was in the process of clearing out that spare room completely to make room for the BD-62 but since I got it installed I've found it takes up so little room I don't have to bother! I'll include a shot of mine with the pedestal I made. I put a rug under it all to protect the carpet.I would use wider, heavier duty washers for the wall connection than the dinky ones they provide though. Makes for a more solid connection.And I would make a point of attaching the top to solid wood in the wall rather than using the anchor bolts for drywall. If you can’t find a joist where you want to put the BD-62 you can span a piece of 1x wood across a couple joists then bolt it to that.And you can either strap the bottom front feet to the floor or drill holes in the front feet and bolt it to the floor that way. That’s what I did and it’s solid. I also put a couple L brackets on the front of the pedestal and then screwed that to the floor through the carpet. It isn’t going anywhere.Defintely worth it!

Great home gym addition.Easy assembly and use.

For the price, it's a very good unit so far, been 3 week in now. Came with the anchors to bolt the top and bottom, feels secure and I have not felt otherwise using it. Using just one of the pulleys is very smooth and works well. Using both by clipping them together onto a bar or something else is not smooth and that should take a star off it but all in all, it's hard to complain about what this can do. I've decided to mostly stick with one side when I can for the smoother glide of lifting the weights. Other issue that people mention is height. Being 6'2" I find myself kneeling or sitting to do some of the exercises I'd prefer or should do do standing. But you can do them by adjusting how you do them. I knew height on some exercises would be an issue and I've just found ways to do them differently. Adjusting the pulleys down/up to whatever height is great and works well.But considering what it does, the price and the exercises it now allows me to do at home that I couldn't do before, it's a very good, solid machine which I highly recommend. If you think it's cheap because of the price, it's not, it seems well built and solid once you secure it. Very happy with this purchase overall.Install instructions were not the best but if you take your time it's not hard to figure out. I just followed their video for doing the pulleys and lines and that was a piece of cake following it. I was able to put it together by myself, including leveling/bolting it to be secure.Just need to know what people are using to oil or grease the poles of the slide? I know some people mentioned what they did in here and I'll go back and try to find out what they used. Should the lines be greased or oiled?