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

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!

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?

Item was perfect for my needs, I needed a pulley system with a small footprint, stable but light enough that I can still remove it and store it on my closet when I have a guest. HOWEVER, I found that it is really too low for lat pull down or anything overhead just like what others have said. I am only 5'7 and I still had to put it on a 10" wooden box just so I can comfortably work on my lats without seating on the floor, thus minus one star. Easy assembly by following the pictures from the ground and up. The pictures were showing part numbers instead of step by step instruction, just be familiar with the screws as they have different sizes. I then use 3 hook eye on my studs and fastened the unit using screws and bolts horizontally against the hook eye to lock in place rather than screwing the unit directly on the studs as I wanted to be able to attach and detach the unit easily for storage. Be sure to loosen the popper pin clockwise and enough so that the unit glides smoothly against the metal bar, funny how I thought mine was defective but I just didn't loosen it up enough to release the pin, it doesn't say on the instruction but I think it was meant to lock the popper pin in place for safety. Good for the price compared to other functional training equipment's that are so over priced.