Home Gyms

Enjoy a strenuous full-body workout in the comfort of your garage or guest bedroom with the Marcy Diamond Elite MD1559 home gym. Outfitted with a 2-by-2.75-inch heavy-duty tube frame and a 150-pound weight stack, the gym offers everything you need to work out your chest, lats, hamstrings, quads, arms, and more. The home gym is built around an upright bench with a pair of butterfly arms, with an innovative press arm design that converts to vertical flies without requiring you to make time-consuming adjustments. The dual-action leg developer, meanwhile, offers a perfectly aligned pivot point to lessen the impact on your knee. _And thanks to the adjustable bicep pad and built-in lat bar, it’s a breeze to strengthen and tone your biceps, triceps, back, and more.

Other features include solid-steel weight stack covers; deluxe, high-density two-tone upholstery; 2,000-pound tensile-strength aircraft cables; an instructional step-by-step exercise chart that describes how to exercise all the major muscle groups; and a durable powder-coated finish. The gym measures 65 by 81 by 40 inches (W x H x D) and carries a two-year warranty on parts.

Customer Review: Ok if you are short, poor customer service
I purchased this just over a year ago to compliment my free weight workout I already did. The first thing I found is I was way too tall for some of the workouts (I am 6′2″). I couldn’t use the leg curl / extension because my legs are too long and hit the ground and I have to hunch by back down to do pull downs. I realized it would be a bit short, but not to the point of non-usefulness for some workouts. Luckily my free weight bench had the leg attachments so I didn’t need to use that part and I got the unit on sale so I was ok with this limitation.

What bothered me was the craftsmanship / customer service. When I purchased it I had to assemble it which was no big deal, but when I got to the end the last step is to install the two metal cover panels over the weights (where the pictures of all of the workouts were), I realized that they forgot to cut out the part so you can actually get to the weights and adjust them. I wasn’t going to disassemble the whole thing and return it so I called the company and explained it. They said they made a bad batch and would ship a new one out. A month later nothing, two months nothing. I called again and again they said they would ship it out. Again nothing for two more months. Finally I just gave up. It doesn’t affect the machine at all so I just live with it, but to me it shows poor customer service and craftsmanship so I hope nothing else breaks that would need to be serviced. I will probably never buy another piece of equipment from this company.
Customer Review: Marcy Home Gym
Purchased from Dunham Sports. I am a 40+ amateur female bodybuilder. I put this together with my 12 y.o. son in about 2 1/2 hours. I have been training at home for 2 years with free weights and needed a lat pull machine along with leg machine. The pec/fly & chest press feature does not offer full range of motion, but I use dumbbells anyway. The vinyl weights do not slide incredibly smoothly…hope this improves with use. Lat pull is adequate although I needed to shorten it up for full range of motion and remove the arm curl pad. I will be replacing the C chain clips with carbineer clips for quick release on chains. Leg extension and leg curl are mediocre…not 100% ergonomically correct…too high for me and I am 5′6″. I will be tweaking this with a board under my thigh to give some extra lift. Looks are nice and it is compact. I paid $249 on sale…a satisfactory value for the low cost. This machine will not improve on the work accomplished with dumbbells for flys/presses. Low pulley is good for curls and seated rows, upright rows….full range of motion. Seems to be constructed solidly. I see it retails for $400…I would never pay that much for this unit! .