It arrived in 4 boxes, one of which was enormous. The entire package was intimidating to even look at, so it took me a day or two to muster up the patience and will to set the machine up. The setup took only about 3 hours from start to finish and the manual was detailed, bringing one up to the finished product in about 20 steps.

I have been working out on my new FT for just a few days. So far I am incredibly impressed with the workouts and the level of flexibility of the FT. I opted for the FT because I think that not having the bench attached to the actually unit gives me a little bit more flexibility in my work outs..the bench in my opinion would get in the way. I bought an after market bench from Target. It works perfectly and is an added plus when I move to my selecttech dumbbells. First lets talk about the setup.