I have a Weider home gym, if you could call it that, that i use when i can’t make it to the real gym.
This is what i don’t get: At the gym I start off benchpressing around 95lbs for a warmup set, using their machine.
At home on my Weider, i only have 46lbs (i need to go to play it again sports and buy some more used plates) and it is alot harder.
Is it all the pulleys causing more resistance? Is a pulley screwed on too tight?
I got one of those in like 8th grade, and I know on mine the pulleys doubled the resistance, so 50 lbs of weight thrown on = 100 lbs of resistance, etc.
[quote]gotoheel wrote:
Is it all the pulleys causing more resistance? Is a pulley screwed on too tight? [/quote]
Could be either one, yeah. Who put the thing together, you or a “professional”? If it’s assembled improperly, that’ll throw everything off (and, of course, it’ll probably break sooner). Try to find a fitness equipment repair specialist in your area who can repair it or give it a once-over. Where do you live?
Another thing to consider: Resistance is resistance, so make the best of what you’ve got. Design you’re training around the reps you want to do, not the weight you want to use. If you’re shooting for 8 reps, use whatever weight allows you to do reps, regardless of whether it’s 40 pounds or 70.
As long as the motion on the weider machine is smooth, don’t worry about that or the “weight” difference. Just keep a record of the weight/reps/sets you do on any piece of equipment to track your progress.