Sept 21/2007

Was in a Costco today ( B.C.,Canada). While there I noticed they had the Gold's Gym Pro Smith Machine for sale.

$999 Cdn.

This rig has 2 high pulleys, 1 low pulley,freesquat and freebench safeties, Butterfly rig, Smith rig, comes with 210 lbs of plates and has a bench that you could hold up the front end of a Kenworth with.
Plus the bench has a caster at the back for easy moving, plus several handles for pulldowns.

Also there is a preachercurl and leg extension add-on.

This rig sure looks like it can take some punishment.

Has oly-style plate collars on it. Not sure if you can take them off for one-inch-hole plates.

Could not find the weight limit for the Smith bar on the carton (of which there are 7). But I'm guessing the free-bar safeties will go 800lbs or better.

Just from looking at it, this rig looked pretty impressive for the money.

If you have one...how do you like it?

This is not the Marcy they had a while ago.

Does anyone know the dimensions of this home gym? Usually there's a web post or something about these sorts of things, but I can't find anything on the net. If anyone knows or can find out this information, it would be greatly appreciated.

Height is 85" according to this info...

I believe this to be the same gym I saw..

http://www.goldsgear.com/search/GGBE6974.html

Interestingly,when I went on Costco.ca and also Costco.com they didn't show the Gold's Pro Smith,only the Marcy on the Canadian site.

I notice on the link to Gold's the warranty is only 90 days. If this is the same machine I saw in Costco Nanaimo B.C. I can't understand why. The one in Nan is built like a tank.

The Marcy looks similar....but I have only seen the Marcy in pictures.