XMark Functional Trainer Cable Machine with Dual 200 lb Weight Stacks, 19 Adjustments, and Accessory Package XM-7626

Have been in the gym for over 25 years. Have been looking for a real gym quality pulley machine without paying an for an overpriced brand name. This is it. Very happy with the smoothness of the pulleys as well as the slide mechanism. For me the weight of 200lbs. per stack is plenty. I am only giving this item 4 stars because of multiple issues encountered with incorrect numbering of parts. The set comes in 8 boxes...two large boxes and 6 boxes that contain the weight plates. About 25% of the items had an incorrect sticker number on the plastic wrap. Some of the numbers were not of existing parts if you reference the master parts list. Isn’t wasn’t too difficult to figure out where the parts went by the picture. However, I likely wasted an hour of time trying to figure out where the parts truly went. The other issues as others have mentioned is the cable routing. Here is the best advice I wish I had seen elsewhere. YOU MUST RUN THE CABLE AS YOU INSTALL EACH PULLEY. DO NOT TRY TO INSTALL THE PULLEYS FIRST. If you do, you’ll be taking off the pulleys so the cable and the nuts on the end will fit through. Once you do the left side, the right side will be so much easier.

This is a great addition to our home gym. It came in 8 boxes with curbside delivery. Some of the boxes came damaged but xmark assured us that if any piece was damaged we would just have to email them a picture of the part and they would replace it without us having to go throught the hassle of shipping the part back. It took about 4 hours for me and my hubby to put it together. Majority of the time went to figuring out the cable system. Both of the weight rods were a tiny bit bent and a little rusty in the tap holes (my husband is a machinist and notice every little thing) and xmark had no problem sending replacement parts to us within 4 days. Their customer service is astounding. We are very confident in this purchase. This is a very sturdy, nicely welded piece of equipment. I only wish the weight plates were rubber coated and not old school steel.

I have been a gym rat for 25 years using similar equipment to the XMark for the past 5. I am a big fan of similar cable machines as I can do just about any exercise I can imagine at a variety of angles.I bought the XMark to replace my barbell based workbench at home. I no longer have a suitable gym nearby and I was becoming more worried about the safety of the barbell set-up with my grandchildren visiting more frequently. I also wanted a machine that my wife and kids would use. None of them touched my old workbench.I chose the XMark primarily for the value compared to similar machines with similar features and perceived quality.Once my wife and I had assembled it, I was quite pleased with the smooth operation and solid feel of the XMark. My only minor complaint in use is that I have to bend my knees a bit to do pull-ups (I'm over 6' tall), but I can understand the design benefit of fitting in rooms with lower ceilings.The assembly had a few annoying gotchas. On the plus side, the parts were well organized and laid out in an easy to use format. The packaging was first rate and I saw no damage to any of the equipment despite the fact that all of the external shrink wrap had been destroyed in transit.On the minus side, many of the parts were mislabeled. I also had to make two trips to the hardware store to replace one bolt with bad threads and to buy an Allen wrench that fit the smaller bolts. There was also one missing washer. I expect that the company would have sent me the missing parts but my wife and I assembled it on a Saturday and the help line did not have office hours until Monday. The assembly instructions were the worst part. There were a number of errors throughout and the diagram (with no text) on how to thread the cabling was of little help. Better documentation could have saved us an hour or so of unneeded aggravation.However, the superb quality and feel of the XMark after assembly far outweighed the negatives in putting it together. I look forward to my whole family using it in the future.