The Weider 1200 is an in-home strength-training gym with several workout stations plus a high and low cable pulley. Although you can do a full-body workout on the Weider 1200, it provides more options for upper body exercises than lower body exercises. The cable pulleys and the included attachments allow you to do over 50 different strength exercises.
Core Stations
The upright bench on the Weider 1200 has four workout stations around it: chest press arms that double as butterfly arms, a lat pulldown station, a quad developer and a preacher curl pad. These four stations target your chest, back, quadriceps on the front of your thighs, and your biceps. Your hamstrings, which are the muscles on the backs of your thighs, and your shoulders do not get worked with the four core stations on the Weider 1200.
Accessories
The Weider 1200 home gym has high and low pulley stations, which allow you to do over 50 different strength exercises using the included lat bar, ankle cuff and extension chain. Hook the ankle cuff to the low pulley to do leg sweeps, leg curls and glute extensions. Use the lat bar on the low pulley for shoulder shrugs, upright rows, bent-over rows and seated rows. Attach the lat bar to the high pulley for tricep pressdowns and seated abdominal crunches.
Upper vs. Lower Body
Three of the four core stations on the Weider 1200 focus on upper-body strength exercises: lat pulldown, preacher curl and press arms. The low pulley with the ankle cuff attached allows you to do several isolation exercises for your quadriceps or hamstrings, but it is difficult, although not impossible, to do compound lower body exercises with the Weider 1200, such as squats and deadlifts. You can do squats by attaching the lat bar to the low pulley and holding the bar in front of your body while squatting. However, the movement isn't natural and makes it difficult to maintain good squatting form.
Weight
The Weider 1200 offers up to 214 lbs. of resistance. However, this isn't actual weight; it's the resistance that results from the cable pulley system. The weight stack has six 12.5-lb. weight plates and one 6-lb. weight plate, for a total of 81 lbs. The cable pulley system changes the actual resistance for each station. For example, if you choose the fourth plate down for the chest press station, you are pressing about 127 lbs., but the fourth plate only provides 70 lbs. of resistance at the high pulley station.
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