Starting A Home Gym? The Mikolo M4 Smith Machine Is The Perfect Fit!
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Vern Cowles | Usawa Fitness
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I currently own two Power Racks, the Fitness Reality 810xlt Super Max Power Cage and the Sunny Health and Fitness Power Zone Strength Rack but I recently added the Mikolo M4 Smith Machine and I can unequivocally tell you that the M4 Smith Machine is leaps and bounds above the two power cages. The Mikolo M4 Smith Machine is the ultimate piece of home gym equipment and perfect for any fitness enthusiast! It comes with all the bells and whistles to help you get your best workout in and I’m feeling it. It’s a smith machine so it's ultra versatile and designed to help you get the most out of your workout routine, allowing you to perform a variety of exercises including squats, lat pulldowns, seated rows, bench press, shoulder presses and a whole lot more.
If you are a seasoned lifter like myself you probably want to shy away from a smith machine because that fixed bar on the inside by this cage has J-hooks and safety bars on the outside so you can use it to lift the way you’re used to with a non attached Olympic bar. That has been the kicker for me. And if you’re a personal trainer this thing is next level. Check out the video and let me know what you all think and as always thanks for watching. Love and peace everybody. Out!
Mikolo Smith Machine, 2200lbs Squat Rack with LAT-Pull Down System & Cable Crossover Machine, Training Equipment with Leg Hold-Down Attachment（2023 Version）amzn.to/3rWN6tx
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Got to say I really appreciate your no nonsense reviews. They are straightfoward and don't dwell on things. I really like that in a reviewer. Thank you again.
Wow! Thanks for the kind words. I appreciate it and I'm glad you're getting value from my content. I'm still pretty small but I'm giving this channel my all and the encouragement is really appreciated.
So much info & such a dope video. Thanks for sharing Vern!
Thank you Max! It was a lot of work but I had to do this one right! ☺️
Great Review once again!!! You’re really helping me get my Garage Gym together and I greatly appreciate it!! Keep up the good work.🙌🏿🙌🏿
Thank you I can't even tell you how much it means to us when you all watch our videos. I appreciate it more then I can tell you. Thanks again!
Thank you so much for testing and trusting our products. This would be a bravo review video!
Wow! I've never got a comment from the company before. I'm honored! Thank you! I truly love the M4!
Vern dropping bars 🔥 lol, great seeing you succeed and being able to bring in high quality stuff for reviews that’s excellent 🙌🏻
You've got me over here lol Logan! Man I think I was feeling myself after I watched that one playback because of the whole head shake after I did it. I'm so damn goofy with this whole thing these days but it's so much fun. Thanks for your support bro. I appreciate it.
Another top-notch review. Keep up the amazing work, Vern!
Thanks Nigel! That was a tough one man. I really wanted to get everything I was thinking into it but man I really like that thing.
Great review! Very detailed and well explained.
Thank you!
Great review, thank you!
Thanks Ben! I'm glad it was helpful man.
That’s an awesome beast right there man awesome!
Thanks man! It's my favorite so far man.
Great info !🦾
I tried! I left a few things out but I'll be doing an updated video.
You are the man dude.
☺️ Thank you! I appreciate that.
The Mikolo is straight beast mode. I'm loving it but in agreement with some of its shortcomings. Great review. Now about your rappin skills 🤣🤣
Man I'm clearly the next Tupac with those bars I dropped! 😎🤣
Very nice complete review!
Thank you!
Very high quality review. I'm surprised it has under 100 views. I think I'm sold on this model.
Thank you.
i like this guy, i came here looking to see if this was a good machine for me but i also got great entertainment, Ima drop you a sub man, good shit.
Thanks Bro!
Sure love your energy. It’s very clear you love what you do.
As far as the leg hold down attachment…try using a hitch pin (that’s the pin that secures a trailer hitch). That way you can just pull it in/out
Thank you I appreciate that and I think something like that is exactly what I need to do. I keep working around it but I need to go ahead and try that. Thank you!
I just payed off my row machine and I came across your video and I’m buying this. I saw your DIY fix video and I’m doing that too. Subscribe and became a fan. I wish you did workout videos.
Hey man sorry for the slow reply! I just saw this. You won't even have to worry about that! They fixed everything I mentioned! I have the M7 here too and I'll be dropping my initial thoughts video this week. They are both on point! Thanks for the love you've showed on the channel. I appreciate that. I'll be doing live stream workouts again at some point this year! 💪🏾
@@UsawaFitness oh cool. I’m glad they made the fix’s. I can’t wait to get this thing.
@@JamesBrownlip You're going to love it. I'm serious. It's my work horse! I use it every single day.
@@UsawaFitness that’s my plan too. This will give me more options to do more. I can not wait. Thank you for your reviews. Looking forward to your videos
Nice job on the review and commentary.
Thank you brother! As always I appreciate you man!
Hey brotha, what’s haps on da daps? 1st time watching ur video. You just convinced me to purchase this. I’m subscribed. Outstanding No BS review. Thank you sir👏🏼👏🏼
Hey man thanks for watching. That M4 is bomb! On everything... I love mine. Thanks for subscribing and checking out the channel! 🙏🏾
Nice review brother! I've never seem a Smith Machine system with all of the attachments. If a person got this system; they probably wouldn't need a gym; thanks for sharing.
It's definitely filling that home gym shoe! Thanks for watching.
I just put an M4 together, and they seem to have listened to your complaints. The leg holds are now on a pin, which I appreciate for using the catch for bend-over rows. Cable ends are on a ring with 4 adjustment holes. Much better. Having a Dip and T-bar on a home gym is an awesome add...and The Fonz can never be wrong! Great review, thank you!
First of all you just made my day for knowing who the Fonze was! But secondly congratulations on the Smith Machine! I have been hearing they've addressed a few of the concerns I brought up during my review. I'm loving that because this Smith Machine is fantastic and now it's even better. What do you think do far? Please stay in touch and let me know if there's anything I missed that I can get out to the TH-cam community.
The sad (or funny) thing is my wife just handed me my mail, and on top was an AARP Magazine with...Henry Winkler, The Fonz, on the cover. Oh man, we are all getting older, but still trying to jump the shark tank!!..;-)) As for the machine, assembly was great, good production quality, no problems with any bolt alignments. For the price, you can't beat this thing. Thank you for all you do, and I will start watching the rest of your content. All the best!, Mark@@UsawaFitness
@@markvisconti4507 Man it's those kind of reminders that let us know we really are getting older but at least we're trying to stay fit! Thanks for hitting me back Mark and watching my stuff too! Take care.
Dope lil rhyme bruh,😊
Much appreciated! 🙏🏾
I am interested in the Mikolo M4 Smith Machine but have some questions about it:
1. What are the usable interior dimensions of the rack space between the inner edges of the crossmembers/uprights?
2. What are the dimensions of the rear support feet sticking out the back of the rack on the floor?
3. What is the highest height from the ground the smith bar can reach? What is the lowest it can reach with and without the safety stopper installed?
4. Does the cable system support 1" plates with a removable sleeve like the storage pins or only 2" olympic plates?
5. Can you flip the pull up bar upside down to save vertical space? Does this interfere with the smith machine or any other aspects?
6. How long are the smith bar sleeves for loading plates on each side?
7. Can the outer free weight safety catches withstand a 300lb or 400lb bar being dropped a short distance (under 1ft) onto it?
8. What is the realistic weight capacity of the J-Cups with someone bringing down the bar and trying to rack it? Not just the static load weight capacity.
Sorry for all the questions just trying to get a full understanding of the machine and if it will work for my usage and space!
Thanks!
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Love the double pulleys with independent weight stacks, and that the cable output can be adjusted up and down.
Not a fan of the smith part because of being constrained to a fixed bar path.
Sticking with the 810XLT for now. But not opposed to upgrading. This one is not quite it.
Keep up the great work Vern!
Thanks man I really appreciate this comment coming from an 810xlt owner. I love that cage! And I hope all my videos will always show that I'm real with it when I'm passionate about something I'm reviewing. bBut as my channel grows I can't help but feel some insecurities surrounding how you all will feel as I review alternatives to some of the things I've loved and reviewed, especially now that my channel is growing through your support and these vendors are seeing that and sending me options to review. I say all that to say thank you!
@@UsawaFitness I’m glad you are getting new equipment and reviewing a variety products. That’s what you need for your channel to grow. You can only talk about the 810XLT so much.
My favorite part of the video was when you disclosed that you did indeed receive it for free (honest), but also that they have no control of what you say and you will show all of the good and bad and will never mislead us. That’s the heart of your channel (for me at least).
I’m very happy for you and how your channel is growing. You earned it. Looking forward to future videos.
Thanks man! It feels like the channel is rising up to another level and I'm about to try to kill it! 🤣
Take you a pipe that’s long enough to go across from one pulley to the other, sit in the middle and use the Olympic bar on the j hooks to hold your legs down. That will allow you to spread your arms wider and get more underneath them for lat pull downs
Thanks man! 🙏🏾
Hey Vern. How have you been sir? I think I am going to pull the trigger and get the machine. I may try to build it myself. I remember you told me you did yours lol.
I did. Listen this is important. I'm not sure if they still pack them the same way but spread everything out on the floor but don't remove everything from the bags. The bags have a corresponding number/letter on them and that's how you can tell which piece matches the paper work. If you don't do it like I'm telling you you'll have to figure each piece out. It's not hard though. You can do it all by yourself. I did. I promise you I did. 👍🏾
Thanks for your reviews. I am just starting to look at this companies products. I have a question: On the smith machine how far down is the starting point when doing deadlifts on the Smith Machine? A lot of smith machines sit high at the lowest point so doing deadlifts isn’t really great, the lower the starting point the better it is to do deadlifts and I like a smith machine to act as a supporting mechanism to help with doing my regular deadlifts off the floor.
Thanks.
Yes you're going to find the same kind of limitation on deadlifts with this machine that you find on others. It's higher then a free floating Olympic bar so I typically use a stepper when deadlifting with the fixed Smith machine barbell.
Hey vern, fantastic review ! I have a few questions . Is it possible to switch the landmine and seated row to opposing sides of the rack, i only have enoigh space on the left . Also, can i take off the lat pulldown attachemnt on the saftey bar ? I alrady have a lat pullll down machine and will get in the way ot squats like you stated . Appreciate it man !
Those are some good questions that I'm not qualified to answer. 🤣 Let me take a look at the way that little Olympic bar holder is attached I think that might be the only thing stopping you from switching the two sides up. You could definitely take the lat pulldown off though. I'll hit you back once I head back out to the garage.
I appreciate it bro ! I'm currently debating between this or the power rack with the duel pullysystm
@@bleedblue1604 The fitness reality rack might work with the new pulley system.
You could probably get a trailer hitch pin that would be almost the perfect size to get rid of that nut/bolt set up for the knee hold down.
Harbor freight $4.99 would probably solve the inconvenience
I gotta look. Thank you! 🙏🏾
Can you effectively do hip thrust on the Smith machine?
To be honest I haven't tried. I've always had an Olympic bar for that.
HI. is the height as accurate as they advertise on 82.7"? my ceiling is 84" and thinking if I can mount the pull up bar upside down.
I'll measure it with a tape measure today and let you know.
Do you know a similar rack like this but for Europe?
I'm sorry I don't at this point.
Remove the bolt on the leg hold down and swap it out for a Pull pin used on trailers
Exactly what I've gotta do. Been thinking about that. Thanks for the push. I need to stop being lazy and make that happen. 👍🏾
1.Beastiality
2. Dope Rymes and good times
3. Smith and functional equal - What cant I do foo
4. Dipping and never tripping
5. Mikolo: Come pull up
6. You can do it all yall even when you dont ball - Boss up
Awe man! I see I need to do this again because you cats keep dropping bars! 💪🏾👍🏾
all the affordable rack in the $800 price is the tulie, mikilo and real fitness commercial , been eyeing the major lutie, what do u think ?
I haven't been and to get my hands on anything from Major Lutie yet but from what I know it's a pretty good brand.
@@UsawaFitness
got it, thks man. I'm just torn between the lutie and real fitness commercial.. hard decision
@@hjkjccdggjhvb I feel you man! It's definitely tough making long term purchases like this. Fitness Reality products are solid! I can tell you that much for sure. I have a bench and the 810xlt and I love both of those.
You still have your outside gym setup with the tarp? How is it holding from rust?
Yep I still have it! It's still looking good but the Olympic plate holders and the safety bars are showing some signs is rust. I should have bought a new tarp over the winter but I wasn't paying attention because I was in the garage so winter. I hate that I neglected it a little
I'll be doing a video on it this summer.
Your outdoor gym video helped me decide to set up my outdoor gym so I’m looking forward to the video!
@@305trades6 I love that gym! It was brought in by covid so it was like the one good thing that came out of the pandemic.
Hate to bend my legs all the time on cheap end of home power racks! They are so short in height like 7’ tall! Only those who are 5’ can do a pull-ups normally!😂 That another reason to by high end power racks that are 91” and 100”(same as commercial) tall!😊
According to the National Building Code (NBC), the standard ceiling height is ninety-six inches. So they typically make these units smaller then the ones you see in the gym so these things are basically for people who want to build out a home gym with some give and take. Win some lose some kind of thing. 🤣
Does it come with the weights
No those are mine.
This is to small man
you can use 600 lbs weights there like squat?
and this cables will hold? l can use 350 lbs on back traning for reps easy with cables
I'm pulling close to 300 in that video. Everything I review is on the consumer level so they make it a little smaller. I might try some prosumer or commercial level if I were you.
@@UsawaFitness There are versions with a thicker profile for sure
Can you do muscle ups on this and does this rack wobble?
It's heavy enough but I can't do em so I couldn't tell you for sure. 🤣 I'm going to shake it around a little when I workout later and I'll get back to you.
@@UsawaFitness thank you sir!! I just wana know if it will wobble doing any pull ups haha try like shaking yourself while you're on the pull up bars. Also does it come with the olympic barbell and can you switch it out to your own? Can you switch the barbell on the smith machine or it is only for that one if it comes with one?
@@quincy189 The attached barbell is built into the system so you can't take it out or anything but as you saw it has j-hooks for a separate barbell that you can use like a squat rack or weight bench so you're not forced to do lifts under a fixed bar if you don't prefer to do that
@@UsawaFitness I see so no matter what you can't swap out their olympic bar bell for your own? Is this only for olympic size weights or is there option to take off the olympic size to fit 1inch size weights?
@@quincy189 it's only for Olympic size weights although there is an Allen screw and you might be able to modify it if you wanted but it's definitely not designed to do that
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All the details are in there.
Is this 2:1 pulley ratio?
I'm not sure what the exact ratio is but you're definitely going to load a lot more weight on those pulleys then you do at the gym.
@UsawaFitness thank you sir.
You're welcome!
Vern this is the one I have been looking at how is it…
Willie I keep it as real as it gets on here and I love it man. I was going to keep my Sunny Health and Fitness Cage but I honestly think I can give that to my family because this thing is doing it all. The thing I always hated about Smith machines is squatting and benching under that bar. But you have the choice on this one man. It's solid too! Ultra heavy! My only real concerns or those I mentioned in the video and I'm thinking of some ways to deal with those.
@@UsawaFitness yeah I saw about the long arm part and I have them that is my problem with reality cage with lat piull downs. But I like it had the other attachments. This weird cause when was chatting yesterday. I was looking at their brands online. We must talk soon so I can get some serious information from you. Send me a email address when you can bro.
@@UsawaFitness I been looking at that cage a good bit. Is it hard to assemble?
Hey man, I meant to hit you back yesterday. Hit me up on my Usawa Fitness website's contact us page but that is crazy that we were talking about the same piece of gear and didn't know it. It's not overly difficult to assemble it's mainly like the rest of em it's just got a lot more pieces. It's not bad you just gotta take your time and pay attention because it was my birthday and I had clients so I was rushing and I make a few mistakes that forced me to start take that mug apart to fix. 🤣
@@UsawaFitness Lol. I probably will get someone to assemble. I’m not mechanical inclined 😂😂. Will hit you up on your page brother..,
All you need is this some plates, adjustable dumbbells and something for cardio and you have an entire gym. Nice.
It's a bomb piece of equipment for a home gym!
The machine is not budget friendly it’s 1400 bucks on amazon.
I feel you on that. It's just that Smith Machines can run twice that and it's at the more budget friendly end of Smith Machinea at it's price.
This comment is not about this video but want to place it on your latest video to possibly help you get a little boost. Thanks for your videos on the DIY Carroll fly that I just discovered. This could be a complete game changer for home gym owners like myself who don’t have the space for multiple pieces of machinery.
Thank you! I love that piece and what it brings to the table. I appreciate you checking it out and I'm glad you found it helpful.