Most home gyms -- and gym weight machines -- come with a weight stack. You select how much weight you want to lift by sliding a selector pin into the appropriate weight plate in the stack. But the Weider 2100, and a few gym weight machines, have no weight stack at all. You adjust how much weight you're lifting by placing weight plates on a small bar attached to the machine.
Features
Plate-loading feature aside, the Weider 2100 offers a fairly standard range of home gym attachments. The leg lever, chest press and butterfly arms, high pulley and low pulley are all packaged around a single upright weight bench.
Exercises
The Weider 2100 is designed to exercise every major muscle group in your body. The press arm allows you to work your chest, shoulders and triceps. The butterfly arms isolate your chest. You can use the leg lever for leg curls or leg extensions, working your hamstrings or quads, respectively. You can use the high pulley station for lat pull-downs and triceps push-downs, and the low pulley works for upright rows, biceps curls and squats.
Size and Capacity
The Weider 2100 measures 60 inches long by 42 inches wide by 74 inches high when fully assembled. It's not designed to fold up or wheel away for storage when not in use, so place it somewhere that you won't mind looking at it every day. The Weider 2100 home gym has a maximum user weight limit of 300 lbs, and is designed to hold a maximum of 150 lbs. of weight plates.
Adjusting Resistance
The Weider 2100 weight carriage is designed to accept standard weight plates, which have a one-inch diameter hole in the middle. You can adapt the weight carriage for Olympic weight plates, which have a 2-inch diameter hole, by sliding the Olympic adapter onto the weight carriage bar.
Actual Resistance
The actual amount of weight you lift varies according to which attachments you're using, plus variable friction between the pulleys, cable and weight carriage. If you load 75 lbs. onto the weight carriage, you lift approximately 67 lbs. with the press arm, 49 lbs. with the butterfly arm, 98 lbs. with the low pulley or leg lever, and 100 lbs. with the high pulley. Load the carriage with 150 lbs. and you'll lift 117 lbs. with the press arm, 81 lbs. with the butterfly arm, 176 lbs. with the low pulley and 173 lbs. with the leg lever or high pulley.
Warranty
The Weider 2100 is no longer in production. Originally a 2002 model, it was sold and warrantied through Sears, with a 90-day guarantee against defects.
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