Weider X Factor Gym
Just when you thought you’d throw-up watching Randy Cotoure pimping his exercise machine called the Tower 200 and calling everyone princess, along comes Joe Weider and his gang of back-door marketers trying to cash in on their “newest home gym breakthrough” called the Weider X Factor.
Want to know what’s funny about the Weider X Factor and the Tower 200 gym? They’re both knock-offs, or re-imaginings if you will, of the hapless Suzanne Somers EZ Gym that was pedaled by the fine fitness experts over at HSN (at least that’s where I first saw it).
Wait a minute… what the hell is going on here? Now I’m confused.
Let’s see if I’ve got this straight. There was a gym from Suzanne Somers called the door gym that targeted women initially, and now men too because there’s a market thanks to these other idiots who jumped on the bandwagon. Then comes a re-invention of the the door gym idea called the Randy Couture Tower 200 Gym that’s marketed as a quasi MMA tough guy gym. The Tower 200 gym was demonstrated in the TV commercial by the Carpenter from HGTV’s Designed to Sell (Greg Plitt), that later appeared as a personal trainer on the show “Workout” with Jackie Warner. And now Weider is making a gym called the X Factor? Is that right?
So is the X Factor the third generation of the Suzanne Somers EZ Gym?
Suzzane Somers EX Gym
What started off as a lackluster product that sold for $79.95 in the EZ Gym (or sells for depending on when you read this) has grown into the Weider X Factor Gym with a bloated price tag of $599? Seriously???
Maybe Joe and the boys at Weider need to spend a little more time on R&D and develop their own ideas. Oh wait, they did that a few years ago with the Weider Crossbow. No, I’m confused again, the Weider Crossbow was a lousy attempt to steal customers from Bowflex. How’d that workout I wonder?
Weider X Factor Verdict
If you put a gun to my head and made me choose between the Weider X Factor, the Tower 200 and the Suzanne Somers EZ Gym -with tears in my eyes- I would tell you to pull the trigger.
If that tongue lashing didn’t change your mind you can go read about the Weider X-Factor Gym on the official Weider Website
