In recent years, there has been a lot of improvement in the market for home gyms and today's products are now up to par with gym equipment in meeting the goals of fitness buffs.

Count on top fitness equipment manufacturer Icon Health and Fitness to come up with the Weider Platinum Plus Home Gym - a prize catch in the arena of user-friendliness and high-tech features. With it, you'll be able to customize your workout goals and choose which routines you think are best for you.

A sleek digital control panel allows you to input commands at the touch of buttons. The digital control resistance system of the Weider Platinum Plus Home Gym can move in gradual increments of a pound each, as opposed to that of most other home gyms whose resistance adjustments are limited to 5- or 10-pound increments.

The personal trainer programs in this innovative home gym can be selected based on the user's personal objectives and capacities. It can even set up complete, comprehensive fitness routines for the user.

Its system is upgradeable to 340 pounds and provides you with 9 workout programs based on specific fitness goals. You'll enjoy a full range of motions using the resistance tables, and you'll breeze through your routines with the efficient motorized resistance adjustments which allow quick and smooth changes.

Costing about $1,600, the Weider Platinum Plus Home Gym literally works every part of your body. Select from routines that would help you burn fat and lose weight, strength-train, or circuit-train.

If you don't want to choose your own routines and would rather have someone do this for you, then you can make use of the Weider Platinum Plus Home Gym's digitally built-in trainer.

It offers 240 pounds of resistance upon purchase, and you can always upgrade to 340 pounds after a payment of approximately $100. The Weider Platinum Plus Home Gym has been designed with your safety in mind, as the pins for stacked weights have been eliminated, minimizing the risk of finger injuries. You'll only be using cables, pulleys, and a crossbar.

Expect to perform 75 exercises with the efficient Weider Platinum Plus Home Gym. It comes with a curl bar, a curl pad, and a leg attachment to let you do preacher and hamstring curls.

This home gym also comes with both a high and a low pulley, and you can easily attach a pair of handles to each one when you want to work out your arms. You are also free to choose the number of sets and reps you wish to program for each exercise, and the machine's full range of motion helps you get optimal results from your workout. The data is also easy to read from the console's four windows.

Although it's a relatively large piece of equipment weighing approximately 300 pounds, it can be folded up for storage when not in use.

A few of its downsides are: It doesn't have a pec dec, the bar for lat pull downs need to be bought separately, and parts still require moving around. However, given its price, ease of use, and multitude of features, it remains to be a steal.