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Talk to a home gym specialist| Weight Stack (Total) | 2 x 74 kg (148 kg in total) |
| Stations | Power Rack, Smith Machine, Cable Pulley, Landmine, Chin-Up, Dip Station |
| Frame | Heavy-duty 16-gauge (1.5mm) powder-coated steel |
| Warranty | 12 Months Parts Replacement |
If you train solo at home and want one station that covers heavy barbell work, the CORTEX SM-25 gives you a power rack, Smith machine and twin 74 kg pin-loaded cable stacks in a single 16-gauge steel frame. The spotters take up to 200 kg and the pull-up bar matches it, so you can push hard without a training partner.
It suits a lifter who wants free-weight squats and presses plus guided cable and Smith work from one footprint, with a landmine, dip station and chin-up bar built in. The included lat pulldown bar, straight curl bar, two single-arm handles, leg roller and extension chains mean your first cable session needs nothing extra.
What stands out is the twin 74 kg stacks on a 2:1 ratio: each handle feels about 36 kg at full stack, smooth enough for high-volume cable work.
The 218.6 cm height needs clearance for pull-ups, so measure before you commit. For me the real value is the six stations in one footprint: rack, Smith, cable, landmine, chin-up and dip covering a full programme.
Adela Ledvinkova · Bachelor of Exercise & Sport Science · Our In-House Fitness Coach
This is a full gym built into one footprint: power rack, Smith machine, cable pulley, landmine, chin-up bar and dip station. That covers squats, presses, rows, pull-ups, dips and cable work without buying six separate machines.
In my coaching career, the people who train consistently at home are the ones who never run out of exercise options. This frame removes that excuse.
What this means for you: One frame handles a complete upper and lower body programme, so your training doesn't stall when you want to try something new.
Two independent stacks give you 2 x 74 kg, 148 kg in total, loaded by pin for quick weight changes in 5.7 kg steps. Because each side is separate, you can train both arms together or work one side at a time.
A 2:1 cable ratio means the resistance you feel is roughly half the plate weight shown, about 36 kg at each handle from a full stack, which is useful to know when you set your working load.
What this means for you: Independent stacks let you fix left-right strength imbalances, which a single-stack machine can hide.
The Smith bar runs on a fixed path, so you can press and squat solo without a spotter chasing the bar. The 203 cm bar takes Olympic plates on its 50 mm sleeves and weighs 11.5 kg on its own.
The Smith bar guides the path for solo accessory work; the free-weight rack does more long-term, so use both for what each does best.
What this means for you: If you train alone, the guided bar lets you push heavier accessory sets with the bar path doing the stabilising.
The built-in dip station handles bodyweight dips for chest and triceps straight off the frame. No separate dip stand to buy or find floor space for.
Dips are one of the best pressing movements most home gyms skip because they lack the kit. Here it's already part of the station.
What this means for you: You get a genuine bodyweight pressing movement without adding another piece of equipment to the room.
The cable station uses 6 mm cables built from a 4 mm galvanised steel core wrapped in 2 mm PU coating, so the lines run smooth and hold up to repeated loading. Pivoting pulleys let you set up both sides for functional cable work.
Cable work is where you build the smaller supporting muscles, and the included handles mean you can start the day it's assembled.
What this means for you: The attachment set covers lat pulldowns, rows, curls, single-arm cable and leg work without buying extras.
The frame is heavy-duty 16-gauge (1.5mm) powder-coated steel with a 296 kg net weight, which is what keeps a machine this tall stable under load. Heavy, stable frames don't rock when you rack a loaded bar.
I have high standards for frame construction, and the station load ratings here suit a serious home multi-gym.
What this means for you: The frame grows with the lifter, so you won't outgrow it as your loads climb.
Dedicated plate pegs hold both Olympic and standard plates on the frame, so your plates live where you use them instead of cluttering the floor. Each peg is rated to 50 kg.
A tidy rack is a rack you actually use. Loose plates on the floor are a trip hazard and a reason to skip a session.
What this means for you: Your plates and bar store on the unit, keeping the surrounding floor clear for lifting.
The included attachment hangers keep the lat bar, curl bar, handles, chains and other pieces on the frame between sessions. Nothing gets lost in a cupboard or left across the room.
With this many attachments in the box, having a home for each one on the frame is what keeps the setup usable day to day.
What this means for you: Every attachment has a spot on the machine, so swaps between exercises are quick.
The power rack section gives you J-hooks and spotter arms set across 10 height positions, so you can squat and bench free-weight with a safety catch underneath. The spotters are rated to 200 kg and the J-hooks to 180 kg.
This is the part that makes it a real rack rather than just a cable station. Free-weight squats and presses are where most of your strength gets built.
What this means for you: You can train heavy free-weight squats and presses solo, with spotter arms catching the bar if a rep fails.
The supplied manual sets out 16 steps and recommends two or more people, and the bolts and fixings come in the box. You'll need a spanner and an Allen (hex) key to work through it.
At 296 kg assembled, this is a build-it-where-it-lives machine. Pick the spot first, because it isn't moving once it's together.
What this means for you: It's a permanent install, so measure your space and plan for a helper on build day.
| Product Type | Multi-Station Home Gym |
| Frame | Heavy-duty 16-gauge (1.5mm) powder-coated steel |
| Resistance Type | Pin loaded and plate compatible |
| Weight Stack (Total) | 2 x 74 kg (148 kg in total) |
| Weight Stack (each) | 74 kg |
| Weight Stack Composition | 12 x 5.7 kg plates and 1 x 5.6 kg plate per stack |
| Cable Ratio | 2:1 |
| Pulley Ratio (Unilateral) | 0.49 |
| Pulley Ratio (Bilateral) | 0.98 |
| Cables | 6mm thickness (4mm galvanised steel core with 2mm PU coating) |
| Smith Bar | 203 cm length, 11.5 kg weight, 50 mm Olympic sleeves |
| Stations | Power Rack, Smith Machine, Cable Pulley, Landmine, Chin-Up, Dip Station |
| Adjustments | 10 height positions for J-Hooks, Spotters, and Smith Bar |
| Included Attachments | Lat Pulldown Bar, Straight Curl Bar, 2 x Single-Arm Handles, Landmine Handle, Leg Roller, Extension Chains |
| Storage | Weight plate pegs (for Olympic and standard plates), barbell holder, and attachment hangers |
| Max Load (Smith Machine) | 150 kg |
| Max Load (Spotters) | 200 kg |
| Max Load (J-Hooks) | 180 kg |
| Max Load (Pull-Up Bar) | 200 kg |
| Max Load (Storage Pegs) | 50 kg |
| Assembled Dimensions | 203.5 cm (L) x 151.3 cm (W) x 218.6 cm (H) |
| Net Weight | 296 kg |
| Warranty | 12 Months Parts Replacement |
Effort: 16 assembly steps in the manual, which recommends two or more people. Tools: a spanner and an Allen (hex) key (bolts and fixings are included).
At 218.6 cm tall it fits under a standard 2.4 m ceiling with about 21 cm to spare, so leave headroom in mind for chin-ups. The footprint is 203.5 cm long by 151.3 cm wide, so measure your space and leave clearance around the cable stations and Smith bar travel. Confirm the spot is permanent before you build it, because at 296 kg this isn't something you'll shift on a whim.
There are two 74 kg stacks, 148 kg in total. But the cable runs a 2:1 ratio, so what you feel at the handle is roughly half the plates you select: about 36 kg at each handle from a full 74 kg stack. That's normal for this style of machine and gives you smoother, longer cable travel for movements like lat pulldowns and curls. For heavier pressing, load plates onto the Smith bar instead, rated to 150 kg.
Yes. The cables are pin loaded but also plate compatible, and the Smith bar takes Olympic plates on its 50 mm sleeves. It ships with a solid kit already: lat pulldown bar, straight curl bar, two single-arm handles, landmine handle, leg roller and extension chains. Most buyers find that covers the main movement patterns without needing to buy extras straight away.
It suits a lifter who wants a full training setup in one footprint: power rack, Smith, cables, landmine, chin-up and dip. The 16-gauge steel frame with a 180 kg J-hook rating and 200 kg spotter rating handles serious loading, so it grows with you from beginner through experienced. Six stations in one frame means you can train the whole body without owning separate machines.
The manual sets out 16 assembly steps and recommends two or more people. You'll need a spanner and an Allen (hex) key, and all the bolts and fixings come in the box. Give yourself a solid session with a second pair of hands, since at 296 kg the frame sections are heavy to position. Take your time squaring everything up as you go so the Smith bar runs true.
This ships as a heavy, bulky freight item, flat packed across multiple cartons, so it travels on our freight network. We deliver Australia-wide through a network of over 190 depots and keep you updated from dispatch to arrival. On delivery day, have a clear path to where it's going and a second person ready to help move the boxes.
Take photos before you start assembly and email support@cardioonline.com.au within 48 hours of delivery. We lodge the freight claim, organise replacement parts or a full unit, and stay on it until you're training. You won't chase the courier or deal with the manufacturer yourself, that's our job to sort out for you.
It carries a 12 month parts replacement warranty, handled by us here in Australia. If this product page shows the 100 Day Money Back Guarantee badge, you also get 100 days to change your mind: return it as-new, disassembled and in original packaging with all parts, and we refund the product price and original delivery fee with no restocking fee. We organise the return freight; you cover that cost. Any assembly fees aren't refundable.
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Download the user manual (PDF)6-in-1 power rack offering versatile home gym functionality with solid build quality at an excellent price point. Customers praised the "fantastic" quality and "smooth" operation. However, assembly instructions are consistently criticized as "pathetic" and "very poor" with unlabeled parts. Some concerns about welding quality, pulley durability, and sizing for taller individuals or wider exercises.
Recieved the pack last weekend, 2 half days for a single person yo put it together, between meetings and mum duties, only needed a 2nd person for one part of the build. I section for the fully was a little off and required to ve widened to get the wheel in. Quality of the parts is fantastic for a home gym, it really elevates the space it's in.
SM25 6 in 1 power rack Review and Assembly tips I was quoted $600 to assemble the machine, but I declined thinking I could do it myself as long as the instructions made sense. Although most of the instructions was ok, certain parts were frustratingly vague. I can only say thank you to David from the Boronia outlet for being patient with me and giving me a few tips along the way. Assembly took me 2 weeks to do (working full time with a family stuff slotted in between). If I was to do it again, I could probably finish it in 2 days knowing what I know now. Here are some tips that hopefully would help others in a similar situation. 1. Download the latest manual from their website. You will find it at the bottom of the product information page. Do not Google it, it might end up with a manual for a different version. It might look the same, but it isn't. Trust me. 2. Assembly is a 2 person job for certain parts. I really am amazed if David can do it by himself, but for certain steps it would be a lot easier and maybe safer if someone was holding part A steady whilst you are trying to fix on part B and C etc... 3. Think of the best position to put the machine in the room. It is important you don't have it too close to a wall, as a final part requires you to slip on a sleeve to the end of the smith bar and you could find yourself like me where you don't have enough room to slip it on and the machine is already loaded up so it is not easy to reposition! I had to reverse a few steps to partially remove the smith bar in order to put on the sleeve. 3. There are a lot of bolts to tighten. Best to have a good socket wrench set rather than relying on the included basic tools. 4. When installing the feet to the back beam, make sure everything is square and equal distance. Measure the distance between the front of the legs and the back of the legs to make sure they are the same. It will become very hard to adjust later when loaded with weights. I found I couldn't install the front top beam later because the bottom feet were not in a perfectly square position. 5. There is an earlier step where you rest the weight stack rods onto the bottom legs. They kind of dangle there as they fit loosely and there is nothing securing them at the top yet. You load the weights on the rods and hope it balances without tipping over. If it tips, you can expect to see some deformation in the hole where the rod slots into. Later you are meant to slot the other ends of these rods into the beam at the top. I was surprised to see that the rods were 30mm too short to slot in at the top. I was told you have to lift up the rods so they are not actually touching the base anymore in order to slot them in at the top. You then tighten the grub **** at the top so the rods are essentially hanging from the top. 6. The part involves fitting the smith bar gave me the most trouble and I was stuck on this for over a week. The instructions need a lot of improvement. For a start, Part 27 "Smith Slider" are 2 different parts. They are not the same. one has a little stopper arm on it and needs to be fitted differently to the other. The stopper arms needs to be at the top. It will not work if the slider is fitted upside down and the stopper is at the bottom. 7. There is no guidance on how far in the smith slider should be positioned on the smith bar. This initially caused an issue where one hook never sat flush to the peg. You have to centre the sliders until they both roughly sit equally on the peg. Also later steps like putting on the front top beam might also help square things up and help the hooks sit better. Overall I am happy with the machine for the price. I guess if I paid for a similar set up costing 5 times as much I would might had had less problems. Who know... I am deducting one star for the bad instructions and not every part being numbered. Some were numbered and some where not...surely not that hard to put a number sticker on the remaining parts. 2 of the upper steel boards came with scratches to them and one of the pins had rust on the end. I am still deliberating whether to raise a warranty claim to get these parts replaced. Probably not at this stage as I need to get on with other things. Hope this is helps others.
Just assembled this for my son . The instructions are pathetic. The images are blurry and the same instructions where doubled up . Parts where not labelled and some where labelled incorrectly. The parts that where plasma cutted where not deburred before powder coating. Some parts where not welded together straight some parts where not bent straight. Some parts should be made out of a better grade if steel to last. Pulleys are very cheap and I cannot see them lasting extended period of time. I have evaluated this as a metal fabrication point of view. I can see how I can repair these items in the future being a fabricator buy trade. A consumer should never have to plan how to repair a brand new item in this case I have. The proportions of this item are small but due to my son's height of 178 cm it works good . For taller people I think they may be disappointed. The function does as described. I think if they spent $250 more on the materials and charged accordingly the product would be perfect.
Ok, seriously impressed with this. Wasn't expecting a whole lot for the price to be fair, but the quality of the build and ease of putting this together makes it not just excellent value for money but a fantastic piece of equipment in it's own right. Went together so easy (yes I'm a little handy, instructions aren't great but diagrams are pretty good). What I really like is that I feel like I can use it with full confidence. Everything works, everything fits, its smooth and its stable. 10/10 would recommend.
Very Happy with my purchase, Rack is versatile in so many ways,will look to expand my gym in future,recommended.
Shipping was brilliant. The gentleman was wonderful and very helpful in getting it off. My husband assembled it, and everything worked and looked great.
Amazing product. Works perfectly and it looks great.
The set is great and was pretty straightforward to put together. Our only problem was the screws werent labeled for sizing so we had to measure them before using to make sure we were using the correct ones when building initially. Some of the photos in the manual showed the incorrect orientation of parts, so was a little bit of messing around. Only needed 2 tools for the whole build
Its pretty good, no legitimate complaints. I was worried for the price it would be a little flimsy but so far so good. I had a nut that didnt **** and they sent me a replacement reasonably quickly. Made a couple of mistakes assembling it, the instructions could be a little better and some numbering and quantities on the screws would have been really helpful, but overall it wasnt particularly difficult. The weight isnt enough for seated rows or pull downs, so Im doing bent over rows with the smith machine and single arm pull downs. The smith machine seems fine, doing the leg press in reverse as the angle on the foot attachment doesnt feel quite right to control heavy weight. Overall absolutely no regrets, particularly for the price, and very satisfied with the quick response to a part issue
Firstly can I say, lifespan customise service and product are to a good standard I would recommend these products to other people. BUT, the instructions that are provided are very poor, they are hard to read, nothing in the boxes are labelled, it felt like that all the parts where just dumped in with little care. If I could recommend that lifespan have another look at the instructions and see it from a customer point of view. Thanks
Easy to set up. Solid build. But need few changes to it such as when I sit to do the bench press, my elbows touches the side metal. Due to that I have to always make sure my elbows are abit more in. Can't do wide bench presses. Also purchased the chest fly upgrade and had to return it back as while purchasing there weren't any proper picture or instructions on how much more space needed to attach it. When took it out the box then only realised needed that extra space which I didn't have. But overall customer service was good and manage to return back the item.
Happy with this overall. All pretty good quality. So far my only comment would be that the pully system isn't very good when doing pull downs. The way the pulley's have to both connect to the pull down bar forces them to turn inwards a lot and the cables are pushing against the sides of the wheels quite a lot. It's a very functional gym though. I'd say I'm still happy with it.
took a whole day pretty much to put together by myself, not a hard job.. it actually surpassed my expectations for quality and function. I couldn't be happier
I brought and ordered it on 4th Sept 2023, to help me getting back ontop of my health issues. It arrived on 17th Sept at depo and i picked up on 18th Sept.. Absolutely Super quick turn over, the workers at Broadmeadows depo help me load, perrrfect..Thankyou.. Its all together now, EASY Assembling and Easy As Instructions to follow..I'm excited, i now can do workouts in my own time and privacy.. I have gone over everything to check for any faults or crappy welds as others have said.. PERSONALLY 100% PERRRRFECT.. This is why i gave the whole setup 5 STARS and also 5 Stars to the staff.. Thankyou.. You ask would i Recommend. YES 100%..
We bought this during EOFY sales, bargain of a buy! We do love our new gym, set up in our shed, took about a day to put together, we did notice the quality of welding was average at best (my partner is a welder), many dags and messy welds thus the 4 stars. The only other thing that bugs me is that the weights aren't marked. But for the price, honestly, a very good start to a home gym set up! Everything works well and the many exercises we're able to do is fantastic! Thank you!
Cant thank you enough for this machine and your service. You kept us continually up to date with the delivery progress and the product is better than we imagined. Such strong, good quality and very versatile for exercising every part of the body. We were pleased with the packaging and all parts were included thank you.
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