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Smith Machines for Sale: Built for Home Gyms and Training Studios A Smith machine is a barbell fixed to a guided track, with hooks running the length of the uprights so the bar can be racked at any point in the lift. Some of the machines here do only that. Others pair the Smith bar with a cable stack, a lat pulldown, a pec station or a bench in the same footprint. How Much the Smith Machine Bar Weighs, and Why It Varies This is the specification most people never check and the one they ask about first, and there is no standard answer because it depends on how the machine is put together. On a standard machine the carriage carries its own weight, so there is real resistance on the bar before a single plate goes on. The Body-Solid Series 7 bar is 25 pounds and rated to 600. On a counterbalanced machine a counterweight offsets the carriage instead and the starting load drops close to nothing, which is what the ProClub and York STS machines do. Neither is better in the abstract. It changes what your numbers mean, and it matters more in a shared room, where a light starting weight is what makes the machine usable by everyone in the house. Our guide to Smith machine bar weight covers what different machines actually start at, which is worth reading before comparing two of them on paper. Smith Machines for Home Gyms: How Much Machine Do You Need? In a home gym the Smith machine is often the entire strength section, which is why so many are sold with a cable stack, a lat pulldown and a bench attached. That is the right buy when the room has space for exactly one big piece and it has to cover a full training week. If a full multi-station setup is what you are after rather than a Smith machine specifically, start with our home gym systems instead. What sorts them is how much the machine has to cover on its own. The Powerline PSM200 is the residential option and it is fine for most home gyms, but it is lighter gauge steel with smaller uprights and a lower weight capacity than