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Total Gym 1700 Club | 
| Brand: Total Gym
Category: Sports
Buy New: $359.95 (On sale from $499.95)
You Save: $140.00 (28%)
New (4) Used (1) from $300.00
Rating:  49 reviews
Sales Rank: 1471
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 69
Dimensions (in): 94 x 24 x 44.5
Model: C13300-4
UPC: 793993133021
EAN: 0793993133021
ASIN: B0001IVN48
Release Date: March 12, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 3-4 business days
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| Features:
| • | Ergonomic glide board and attachments for strengthening and sculpting muscles | | • | Counterbalances percentage of body weight against gravity for smooth resistance | | • | Pilates bar helps improve range of motion and balance; dip and press-up bars | | • | Weight bar lets you add up to 75 pounds of additional free weights (sold separately) | | • | Exercise mat helps protect floor; provides total upper and lower body workout |
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Amazon.com Product Description
Want to tone your entire body without buying a complete home gym? Check out the Total Gym 1700 Club, which helps you strengthen and sculpt every major muscle group in your body using a single glide board and a few handy attachments. The Total Gym 1700 Club works by making you lift a percentage of your body weight against gravity, making the resistance smooth and fluid. As your strength and conditioning improves, you increase the total resistance by boosting the incline, thus increasing the body weight lifted in the exercise. The Total Gym 1700 Club thus not only works your upper body, but also your lower body, abdominals, and even your cardiovascular system. And by reducing body fat and increasing the proportion of lean muscle mass in your body, the strength training effectively turns up the thermostat so that your body burns calories constantly. The Total Gym 1700 Club also offers several handy attachments that add a new dimension to your workout: a Pilates bar that helps you improve your range of motion and balance; a weight bar that lets you add up to 75 pounds of additional free weights to intensify your workouts (weights sold separately); dip bars and press-up bars; and an exercise mat to help protect your floor. All it takes to get in great shape is 15 to 20 minutes per day, three to four times a week. Key Features: - Pilates Bar to add a new dimension to your workout by helping you improve your range of motion and balance
- Dip Bars and Press Up Bars add exercise versatility
- Exercise mat protects your floor
- A larger glideboard for workout comfort
- Wider tower for added stability
- Auto-lock height adjustment
- Exercise flip chart for easy reference while exercising
Product Description
IMPROVEMENT. Total Gym 1700 is deluxe... with a new weight bar, dip bars and larger glideboard. Now, PRICED LESS! Introducing the dee-luxe version of the Total Gym exercise family. Same great Fitness Quest name brand, but with more bells and whistles to increase your workout. How so? New dip bars add variety. New weight bar supports up to 75 lbs. of additional free weight (weights not included). Pilates exercises help improve your range of motion and balance. There's even a wider, more stable tower, exercise chart and new floor mat. This top-notch home unit tones almost every major muscle group in your body. Turns out, I exercised my right to swing a volume buy so you can pocket welcome cash savings! Look: You get resistance training and cardiovascular workout on the same machine; Pilates bar adds a new dimension to your workout along with foam hand grips for exercise comfort; Exercise mat protects your floor; Dip bars and press up bars add exercise variety; Larger glideboard for workout comfort; Auto-lock height adjustment; Folds easily to slide under a bed or place in a closet; Measures 55 1/2 x 18 1/4 x 9 1/4" h., weighs 102 lbs. Some assembly required. We recommend you consult a physician before beginning any exercise program. Get the best of the best ONLINE today. Please Note: This is a Heavy / Bulky item. $35.00 for heavy / bulky shipping and handling will be charged in addition to regular shipping and handling. Total Gym 1700
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Total Gym Review September 7, 2008
This has been a great resistance training product for me. Setup was relatively easy although the product is not quite as portable as I thought it would be; it does take up quite a bit of space and is heavy to move so you are best off to set it up someplace that you don't have to move it. The exercises are easy to learn and fun to do. The gliding motion is smooth and transition between exercises is quick and easy. It has been very effective for me so far. The one complaint I do have is that the bench apparatus is heavy and difficult to move the incline up and down between exercises; if you have a bad lower back like I do you have to be very careful.
 Design Improvement Needed September 2, 2008
I found removing the pulley from the glide board almost impossible. The ring on the bottom of the glide board is almost too small to hook and unhook. They make this look easy and indeed it was in the 1500 model. Some fix should be offered for this. Otherwise it's a great little machine
 total gym 1700 club August 22, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
excellent product, if you follow the routine, you are going to see changes in 3 weeks.
Nice equipment! August 15, 2008
Excellent machine to have a full work out on! I don't think it will replace the gym completely but almost there! Very easy to use and to change between workouts although wen it comes to put it back in the storage I'm kind of lazy so I always have it assembled!
I would Definitely recommend it.
Pretty Good Value August 5, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This product does what it says and if you use it regularly use it you will see results.
Will it build muscle? Maybe. I can recall doing the 1st set of exercises (beginners workout) on a low setting (2) and thinking that this is too easy. The soreness I experienced over the next couple changed my mind. Take it slow. I can certainly say that the Total Gym will tone muscles and I am stronger than I was before, but you won't become a body builder with a total gym.
I like this product but there are a few things that I wish I knew prior to purchase (none of these are deal breakers for me though):
1. The box and all of the literature says "fully assembled". Well this is mostly true. The main unit is fully assembled but all of the extras (dip bar, pilates bar, etc) will make it seem like it is unassembled. It took me forever to find where they hid the very brief manuals that come with the unit (in between the folded machine for me). For a "fully assembled" gym, there end up being a lot of parts.
2. The unit is big. Much bigger than I expected. Fully unfolded and setup, it is much longer than my treadmill. It is also pretty heavy. The literature that comes with this Total Gym say it is 94 inches long unfolded (7.8 feet) and weighs 69 lbs. It does have 2 wheels on one end, but the size and weight of the machine makes it awkward to move around. It will stand up (for closet storage) which is a plus, but it is not stable when standing. Keep this in mind.
3. The 1700 Club is not supported by Total Gym (totalgym.com). According to an email I received from EFI Sports Medicine:
"Thank you for contacting EFI Sports Medicine original owner and maker of the name Total gym. The total gym model that you own is manufactured by Fitness Quest this company is a licensed manufacturer by us to make their own model of total gym"
Not that there is anything wrong with that. The Total Gym 1700 Club costs a fraction of what an EFI's model costs. Fitness Quest has minimal web supplied support other than an email address. The EFI web page (totalgym.com) has much more information about workouts, but don't expect to find any information on accessories or instructions for this model.
4. The workout DVD supplied with the unit is old (2002) and does not illustrate anything other than the basic movements and workout. It is still good, but don't expect any information concerning this model or the accessories that come with this model (like the dip bar). There is a Pilates workout video on the same DVD. I've watched it but I've never done the workout so I cannot comment on its worth.
5. I found it very difficult to unhook the cable from the bench. This is necessary for any exercise that does not use the pulleys. My trouble stemmed from a bad carabiner that would not open all of the way and allow easy unhooking from the bench. I had to unscrew a portion of the frame from the padded board to get the leverage needed to get it off. A quick trip to Lowes where I bought a slightly bigger carabiner solved my problem, but it was very frustrating.
6. It takes some getting used to to position yourself on the board correctly. Remember, while you are trying to position yourself, the bench is gliding all over the place. It takes practice but it is something that you get used too. A slightly longer board would help, but that would require an even longer unit, additional weight and I'm sure more than a few $$.
Overall, my unit is stable, the bench glides easily, costs a fraction of what the TV model costs and it works better than I expected.
Recommended.
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