INSTRUCTIONS: When others say the instructions are bad, wow, there might as well not be any. There are just tiny illustrations of the unit at various stages with captions that tell you contact your vendor if you have questions. I ended up using screen shots from the online photos to figure out how it fits together. Took hours! Some pieces are not drilled correctly either making it really difficult at certain points. DESIGN: This looks kind of like a graviton at the gym. That type of gym machine would be smooth consistent support through your range of motion. That's because it operates on cables with weights. This operates on rubber bands, so at the start of your rep, you have no support at all, and at the lowest point of your rep, well, you WOULD have the most support, but the unit just bottoms out. Either way, at the beginning of your rep, you are lifting your full bod weight, so why bother. Also, the support is pretty far off the floor. I measured it, and it is the same height as my kitchen counters. Could you get up on to your kitchen counter with your knees? LOL! Of course not. But if you could, there is a major design flaw still because the assist pad and rollers are set into the unit quite a ways, not directly below the bars like the picture seems to suggest. So, tricep dip – you cant even reach the assist – so you are on your own. For Lat/bi using the upper bar, the assist pad is sort of too far away, so you are reaching for it with your knees. Ok, so, no tricep dip, and lat works like this. Figure out how to get onto the assist pad holding up your entire weight, reaching for the support with your knees, start your rep and the rubber bands begin pushing back the father down you go, until it just bottoms out. Meanwhile it is a noisy and shaky cycle. Could you use this without the assist? Sure. But you paid a lot extra for that feature. Also, you can do the roman chair abs… but there is no extra back pad for that, you need to get out your tools every time and unscrew the assist, and reinstall it as the back support. Seriously, that is really what they expect you to do. Personally, I don't think that is safe because when you do that, the brackets for the assist mechanism stick out, and you are likely to hit them with your legs and cause injury. They are welded on, so there is no way around that. Bottom line, it looks kind of cool assembled, but it is completely useless.
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