What Is Best Fitness? The Body-Solid Value Brand Explained
Here's the most important thing to know about Best Fitness: it's Body-Solid's residential value-tier brand. Same company. Same Forest Park, Illinois headquarters. Same engineering team. Same supply chain. The Best Fitness line exists to bring Body-Solid's design pedigree to a more accessible price point — beginner and intermediate home gym buyers who want trusted equipment without the commercial-grade price tag of the flagship Body-Solid catalog.
If you've been on the fence about Best Fitness because you've never heard of the brand, this is the answer: you've absolutely heard of the brand behind it. Body-Solid has been making fitness equipment in the U.S. since 1989. Best Fitness is how that 30+ year track record gets to a $200 to $1,500 price band that makes home gym building realistic for first-time buyers.
The Body-Solid Connection
Best Fitness products ship from Body-Solid's Forest Park, Illinois facility. Every Best Fitness product description on Everything Gyms confirms this with the "Ships from Forest Park, IL" line — the same line that's on every Body-Solid product. Same warehouse, same shipping operation, same warranty handling.
What's different: Best Fitness products are tuned to a value spec. Lighter steel gauges in some places, simpler attachment points, smaller weight stacks on cable equipment. Nothing is unsafe — this is still Body-Solid engineering — but the components don't need to support paid commercial gym duty cycles, so the brand can build to a residential spec at meaningful savings.
What's the same: warranty support, parts availability, customer service phone tree, and the fundamental design philosophy. Buying a Best Fitness piece doesn't drop you into a different ecosystem. It's still Body-Solid; it's just the residential value door of the same building.
Who Should Buy Best Fitness
Three buyer profiles fit cleanly:
The first-time home gym buyer. You're building a gym for the first time and you want trusted equipment without spending $5,000 on the centerpiece. Best Fitness gets you Body-Solid quality at a fraction of the cost.
The casual to intermediate lifter. You train regularly but you're not chasing 500-lb deadlifts. You want equipment that handles your real lifts and lasts for years, not equipment built for paid commercial deployment.
The cardio-and-strength-in-one-room buyer. Best Fitness has a real cardio lineup (treadmill, recumbent bike, cross trainer, indoor cycle, mountain climber) plus strength (power rack, Smith machine, functional trainer, multi-station gym). You can build a complete home gym from one brand without going premium-tier.
Skip Best Fitness if: you're a competitive lifter who needs commercial-spec equipment, you're outfitting a paid gym (Body-Solid Pro Clubline is the right answer there), or you want the highest-end every-feature flagship in every category.
The Best Fitness Lineup at Everything Gyms
Best Fitness covers more product categories than any other brand we stock at this price band. Here's the lineup organized by category.
Strength: Power Racks and Smith Machines
The Best Fitness BFPR100B Power Rack at $435 is the brand's flagship rack and one of the best price-to-quality entry-level cages on the market. Solid steel construction, standard J-cup spacing, compatible with the BFLA100B Power Rack Lat Attachment at $350 and the DR100 Dip Attachment at $125 to expand functionality.
The Best Fitness BFSM250B Smith Machine at $640 is a standalone Smith with the BFLA250 Smith Machine Lat Attachment at $350 available as the lat tower add-on.
Strength: Multi-Station and Functional Trainers
The Best Fitness BFMG20B Sportsman Gym at $670 is the brand's most popular multi-station gym — a single-stack selectorized home gym with chest press, lat pulldown, low row, and leg developer in one frame.
The Best Fitness BFFT10B Functional Trainer at $925 brings dual-pulley functional training (the cable crossover-style movements used in functional fitness programming) to the home at a residential price.
The Best Fitness BFCCO10 Cable Crossover at $625 is a dedicated cable crossover frame for the lifter who specifically wants the wide-spread pulley work.
Strength: Benches and Accessories
Three benches cover the major use cases. The BFFID25B Folding Adjustable Bench at $230 is the budget pick that folds away for storage. The BFOB10B Olympic Bench at $400 is the upgraded fixed bench. The BFAB10B Ab Crunch Bench at $185 and BFAB20B Semi-Recumbent Ab Bench at $345 cover dedicated ab work.
Storage and supplemental: the BFDR10B Dumbbell Rack at $195, BFWT5 Standard Plate Tree at $99, BFWT10B 2-inch Olympic Plate Tree at $175, and BFVK10B Vertical Knee Raise at $290.
Cardio
The Best Fitness BFT25 Treadmill at $1,620 is the cardio flagship — a residential treadmill with running-spec deck and motor.
The Best Fitness BFRB1B Recumbent Bike at $550, BFCT1B Cross Trainer at $730, BFSB5R Training Cycle at $625 (indoor cycling), and BFMC10B Mountain Climber at $230 round out the cardio category.
Recovery
The Best Fitness BFINVER10B Inversion Table at $280 is the recovery and decompression option.
How Best Fitness Compares to Body-Solid
Same company; different price band. The clearest way to think about it:
Buy Best Fitness if the price spread between the value pick and the flagship is meaningful to you, and if you don't need commercial-spec components. The BFPR100B at $435 versus a Body-Solid SPR power rack at three to four times the price isn't a quality difference for home use — it's a duty cycle difference that doesn't apply to your gym.
Buy Body-Solid if you want the higher-end specs (commercial-grade leg machines, premium selectorized multi-stations, full lifetime warranties on flagship pieces) and the budget supports it.
Buy both if you want a smart mix. A lot of our customers buy Best Fitness for cardio and small accessories (where the value tier doesn't compromise the experience) and Body-Solid for the structural strength centerpiece (power rack, multi-station home gym).
How Best Fitness Compares to Major Fitness
Different brands solving different problems.
Major Fitness builds integrated all-in-ones that put a power rack, Smith machine, and cable system into one frame at a value price. The product range is narrow and the focus is on the do-everything strength station.
Best Fitness builds a wider product range across cardio and strength but stays modular — you buy the rack, you add the lat tower, you buy the bench separately, you buy the cardio piece separately. Best Fitness doesn't make an all-in-one in the Major Fitness sense.
For a buyer who wants one purchase to cover most of strength, Major Fitness wins. For a buyer who wants to build a full strength-and-cardio gym at a value price band, Best Fitness wins.
What to Pair With Best Fitness
The Best Fitness catalog is internally compatible — Best Fitness racks accept Best Fitness lat attachments, Best Fitness benches work with the rack frames, and the cardio pieces are standalone. Build out from one of three starter packages:
Beginner Strength Starter: BFPR100B Power Rack ($435) + BFFID25B Bench ($230) + Olympic bar and plates.
Intermediate Strength + Recovery: Above plus BFLA100B Lat Attachment ($350), DR100 Dip Attachment ($125), and BFINVER10B Inversion Table ($280).
Strength + Cardio Combo: BFMG20B Sportsman Gym ($670) + BFT25 Treadmill ($1,620) for a complete home gym in two purchases.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Best Fitness really made by Body-Solid? Yes. Best Fitness is Body-Solid's residential value-tier brand. Same Forest Park, Illinois facility, same engineering team, same warranty support.
What's the warranty? Best Fitness products carry residential warranties tuned to category. Frames carry the longest coverage; cables, pulleys, and small parts have shorter terms. Specific terms are listed on each product page.
Do Best Fitness and Body-Solid attachments interchange? Some do, some don't. Best Fitness racks generally take Best Fitness attachments by design; cross-brand compatibility is hit or miss and we don't recommend assuming it works.
Is shipping really free? For most Best Fitness products on Everything Gyms, yes — free shipping nationwide from Forest Park, IL. Larger items ship via freight to a curbside delivery.
What's the assembly difficulty? Smaller pieces (benches, plate trees, dip attachments) take 30–60 minutes. Larger pieces (power rack, Smith machine, multi-station gyms) take 2–4 hours and benefit from a second person.
Browse the Lineup
The full Best Fitness collection at Everything Gyms has every active product with current pricing. If you're starting from scratch, our Best Fitness for beginners under $500 guide walks through the first-purchase decisions. For a deeper look at the flagship power rack, see our Best Fitness BFPR100B review. And for the broader cardio picture, the Best Fitness cardio lineup covers the treadmill, bikes, and cross trainer in one place.