M7 Home Gym Package with 350 lbs Dumbbell Set

2” Hole Spacing

The 2”x 2” Smith machine market were flooded with 3” and 4” hole spacing machines, but the most suitable adjustment of J hook and safety catch would only vary between 1” and 2” in real use based on our engineers research and self-experiment. This is the first reason why we use 2” hole spacing, our engineers insist on it. Secondly our customers from Facebook group, their discussions, advises and recommendations all lead to 2” hole spacing, this reinstates our direction is right, we are on the right track.

Square Sliding Tube

Square sliding tube was a great attempt by our team after internal discussion (No other brands has done that). There are 2 reasons behind this design, one is we want to try something different apart from our competitors, design differently, but with intention, which lead to our second reason.

With intention - we want to make the whole machine in harmony, we try to combine the functionality of sliding tube and design of upright together. It worked but here is the tricky part, square design may not as smooth as rounded design.

How we manage to fix it? Our engineers came up with a bold idea, get rid of the old plastic adapter, redesign and mold a new one for square sliding tube only. We used nylon instead of plastic because it has lubrication and higher intensity of hardness, we also used a new design called ‘ladder’ on the inner of adapter by minimizing the contact surface as much as possible to reduce the friction. In this way, we can ensure the smoothness of trolley while sliding up and down, also guarantee it would not deviate from the track.

True Vertical Leg Press

The idea of combining a vertical leg press on smith machine is not special, or out of mind. Some other brands have also done it, putting a footplate on the smith bar, easy and quick, and it worked. But while we were designing M7 and came up with this idea, we asked ourselves, “Will this really work? Are we willing to buy a smith machine that put a footplate on smith bar and use it?” We had a thorough discussion, made a similar one, self-experiment a dozen of times, we decided to modify it. Why? Because it is not safe. Firstly, you could not stop at any time. Secondly, the only way to re-rack the bar is using your feet and ankles, what if you trained so hard on your leg today till exhausted, will you still be able to re-rack using your feet and ankles? Therefore we took a look of commercial vertical leg press design, decided to add the 4 levels of safety limiters on it and modify the footplate, not just clamping on the smith bar, fusing the whole footplate on the smith machine and make it easy to install&remove. In this way, you could use 4 level of safety limiters to re-rack if you are exhausted or use it as a starting point.

Cable Tensioner

Our team all agreed that floppy cables are as unappetizing as cold pizza. But it happens quite a lot after using cable for a period of time cause it has been stretched a lot. Therefore we were thinking could we make a simple and easy device to fix this problem? We made one and is on M7 now. Once you find that the cable is not as tight as it should be, you can shorten the length of the chain to adjust the tightness, easy peasy, even your kids would learn from a glance.

Extended Safety Arm

Our motto is never compromised on safety and there is a saying in martial arts also compatible with our motto, “one inch longer is one inch stronger”, it originally references how the longer a weapon like a sword is, the stronger you are because of a bigger attack range. We share the same philosophy here, the longer a safety arm is, the stronger this machine would be because of a bigger safety range. This concept was came up from one of our team member who loves powerlifting, he always saying if this machine’s safety arm is not long enough, i will not use it. Why? Because he likes to take a small step back after he lifting the bar while doing squat. Now our M7 is his daily routine. We guarantee our safety arm would be the longest in its range.