I'm thinking of getting a cheap York home gym. The model that I'm considering is the 4180, pictured here:

http://www.imageshack.us/files1/york4180.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us/files1/york4180.jpg)

I want to get this home gym for the high and low pulleys, primarily. I don't expect a cheap unit like this to have silky smooth pulleys, but I'd like to make sure they're not too uncomfortable to use. The weight stack is selectorized, which is nice, but it's only 120lbs. Supposedly there's a way to increase the resistance so that it feels like 160lbs, but I don't know how effective that really is. What I'm wondering, with regards to the weight stack, is whether I'm likely to outgrow it quickly.

Anyway, if you have any experience with a York home gym I'd love to hear your thoughts on their machines.

With out knowing your strengths, age, sex, etc... My opinion would be not to purchase that piece of equipment. 120 lbs really isn't much and you'll likely want to increase it sooner or later. Get something you can keep increasing weight to maximise your gains.

York Makes nice stuff and right here in my home town so I would buy York Barbell's equipment for sure, but not the model you are showing here. That 120 pounds is not much, you will out grow it quickly. in fact it wouldn't be enought weight for me now. So IMHO think if I were you I would wait and save untill you could get something better that is more expandable and you won't get bored with quickly, anything less is a waste of hard earned money.



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Thanks for the feedback, guys. I was going to split my money between a bench and this, but I guess I'll just plow all the money into a bench for now. No sense in buying something I'll outgrow.

Is it realistic to workout the lats for extended period of time (months) without a lat pulldown? I'm a little concerned that I'm going to run out of exercises with just dumbbells.