Cable Machines

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Cable Machines for Sale: One Station, Most of a Gym A cable machine runs a weight stack through pulleys, so you can pull or press from any angle rather than only against gravity. This page covers the whole cable category. What sorts it is how many stacks a machine carries, how far apart the uprights sit, and whether the whole thing is one station or several. Cable Machines for a Home Gym: How Much Station You Need A cable machine is usually the piece that covers the most exercises per square foot, so in a home gym the question is less which one is best and more which one fits the space. A functional trainer keeps the two uprights close together in a compact footprint that can sit against a wall, which is the usual answer when the room is tight. A cable crossover spreads the uprights wide so you can stand in the middle with your arms out, which is what a cable fly needs and what the extra floor space buys. Our comparison of a functional trainer versus a cable crossover goes through where each one wins. If what you are really after is one machine that covers a full training week rather than a cable station specifically, that is a different category and our home gym systems hold it: functional trainers, Smith and rack all-in-ones, and traditional multi-stack gyms in one place. What a Single Stack Cable Machine Actually Gets You The phrase covers more ground than people expect. A lat pulldown is a single stack cable machine. So is a low row. What most people mean when they ask is a single stack functional trainer or a cable column, running one or two pulley points off one stack. At the entry end of that range the stacks are both light and short, and the machine runs out of resistance well before you run out of ambition. Higher up it changes. The BodyKore Universal One is the single stack we would actually recommend: a heavy column that takes attachments and earns a place as the centrepiece of a room rather than an accessory to it. For a machine that has to carry a full