With the rise in home workouts, more and more people are investing in equipment to reach their fitness goals from the comfort of their home. While it can be hard to replicate the effectiveness of all the strength training equipment you can find in a gym, Tonal 2 ($4,295) has solved that problem by creating a sleek machine you mount to the wall that can create up to 250 pounds of resistance (up from 200 pounds in Tonal 1). Using resistance bands that customize how much weight you want to use, Tonal can replicate nearly every exercise you can perform on gym equipment, such as bicep curls, deadlifts, goblet squats, bench presses, and more. It also has an unparalleled archive of exercises and more than 3,000 coach-led workouts across categories like strength training, cardio, yoga, HIIT, and mobility. I got to try out the new Tonal 2 machine — keep reading to hear about my experience and why I think it’s the best home-workout equipment to invest in.

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What I Like About the Tonal 2 Home Gym

At first glance, Tonal looks like your standard cable machine at the gym, along with a large screen to show you how to perform certain moves. Sure, I could do cable pull-downs and triceps push-downs, but what else could I do with this machine? It turns out, a lot. The arms smoothly move and click into place in nearly a dozen different positions vertically, and you can also adjust the arms horizontally to swing closer to the screen or further out for a wider range of motion.

Tonal lets you customize your own weight preferences after signing in and completing a fitness assessment. The fitness assessment includes performing a few exercises such as bicep curls and deadlifts starting at a certain weight, and adjusting more or less depending on your rep speed. From there, it suggests what weight you should use for several similar exercises: more for chest press, less for bicep curls, etc. It also keeps track of your reps throughout your workouts.