The Total Gym 1500 is a piece of home exercise equipment designed to give you a total body workout. The Total Gym 1500 folds up and stores flat so that you can keep it against a closet wall or under a bed. But the Total Gym ships disassembled, so before you can work out with the total gym or store it, you have to get it put together. It only takes a few minutes to get the Total Gym set up for a workout, once you've got it out of the box.
The Main Unit
Step 1
Slide the glideboard all the way up toward the nearest crossbar, then stand the Total Gym up on its rollers. Support the middle of the unit with your hands, careful to keep them from getting pinched between the moving rails, as you slowly spread the rollers apart and lower the middle of the unit to the ground until it lays flat.
Step 2
Locate the spring-loaded pin with a knob-shaped handle near the back crossbar of the unit. Pull the pin out and hold it out as you swing the vertical height adjustment bar up from between the rails to stand upright. Release the spring-loaded pin and listen for it to click back into place. If you don't hear it snap all the way home, jiggle it until it does slide all the way home. If it's fully inserted, you should be able to see its end poking through the other side of the rail.
Step 3
Place one foot on the back crossbar of the unit to keep it steady. Use one hand to support one of the glideboard rails while, with the other hand, you pull the C-shaped height adjusting pin out of its bracket and lift the rails until the hole in the bracket lines up with the lowest hole on the vertical height adjustment column. If you know you're ready for a higher (more difficult) setting, adjust the bracket upward accordingly, always lining it up with one of the holes in the column. Slide the C-pin into place from the back (outside) of the unit and swing the arm of the inserted pin down until it sits flat against the height adjustment column.
Accessories
Step 1
Locate the wing accessory, which has one bent bar and one straight bar connected by a shorter third bar. If two foam rolls aren't already attached to the straight bar, locate them and then wet both ends of the straight bar down with soapy water. Work the foam rolls over each edge of the bar. It's OK to install the wing accessory right away, but don't use it for working out until the foam pads have fully dried out.
Step 2
Install the wing accessory by locating the holes at the top of the right and left glideboard rails. There should be a matching hole in each rail. Place the wing accessory over these holes and line up the holes in the accessory with the holes in the rails. Slide the two hitch pins that came with the wing accessory down through the holes in both wing accessory and rails. Make sure they seat all the way down. Alternatively, you can also install the wing accessory at the bottom ends of the rails by following the same procedure; just lift the glideboard out of the way as you work. The wing accessory is now ready for use.
Step 3
Line the leg pulley bracket up with the hole at the top of the vertical height adjustment column and slide the hitch pin that came with the bracket through the hole in the bracket, through the hole in the height adjustment column, and out the other side. Visually verify that the pin is protruding from the other side of the column.
Step 4
Unhook the arm pulley from the hook on the bottom of the glideboard and hook the leg pulley's O-ring, located at the end of the pulley rope, to that hook instead. Next, hook the D-ring attached to the leg pulley itself on to the leg pulley bracket you just installed in the vertical adjustment column. Make sure the pulley rope is not twisted. You're now ready to use your leg pulley accessory.
Tips and Warnings
- The wing accessory can be installed in one of four directions: If you install it at the top of the glideboard rails with the bent bar on the accessory facing toward the glideboard, it's set up for doing pull-ups. If you place the bent bar facing away from the glideboard, but still at the top of the rails, it's set up for crunches, leg exercises and sit ups. Installing the wing accessory at the bottom of the rails with the bent arm angled toward the glideboard prepares you to do a front press, and installing the wing accessory at the bottom with the bent arm facing away from you prepares you to do squats.
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