This bench meets my basic exercise requirements at a reasonable price. Item was easy to unpack/set up and seems to be holding up to 4x sessions a week. Only complaint is locking the bench back pad to an angled position where I have to place a locking pin into the back pad frame. There is no detente or other mechanism to help line up the appropriate bench position hole and the back pad frame so the pin can be inserted. As a result, one has to partially push the pin into the hole and move the bench pad frame up or down to align with the pin before locking the pin in position. An alternative is to tip the entire bench on its side and attach the back pad (actually much easier). If you are going to make several back pad angle changes in a session, this could prove a hassle.
Locking backrest is difficult
This bench meets my basic exercise requirements at a reasonable price. Item was easy to unpack/set up and seems to be holding up to 4x sessions a week. Only complaint is locking the bench back pad to an angled position where I have to place a locking pin into the back pad frame. There is no detente or other mechanism to help line up the appropriate bench position hole and the back pad frame so the pin can be inserted. As a result, one has to partially push the pin into the hole and move the bench pad frame up or down to align with the pin before locking the pin in position. An alternative is to tip the entire bench on its side and attach the back pad (actually much easier). If you are going to make several back pad angle changes in a session, this could prove a hassle.