Arsenal Strength starting weight: what every Reloaded machine weighs empty

What Arsenal means by starting weight

A plate-loaded machine has no weight stack: you load plates on a lever arm or a sled, and the empty arm or sled already resists before the first plate goes on. Arsenal Strength calls this the starting weight and prints it on the product page of most Reloaded machines.

Read the quote next to each figure: Arsenal says whether the starting weight is per arm (iso-lateral machines, where each arm moves on its own), per foot plate, or for the whole movement. We copy that wording as it is and never add, double or round anything.

A starting weight describes the empty machine; it is not a conversion. It tells you what the machine adds to the plates you load, not how a Reloaded machine compares with a Hammer Strength or a Life Fitness one: the lever length, the path of the handles and friction still differ.

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How to read the figures below

• Per arm: an iso-lateral arm moves on its own, so the starting weight applies to each arm you push or pull, not to both together.
• Whole movement or per foot plate: the figure applies to the movement exactly as Arsenal's quote describes it.
• Arsenal states its figures in pounds; each one is shown as stated, with its badge, the quote, the link and the date we read the page.
• The same starting weight can feel different from one machine to the next: where the arm pivots and the angle of the movement change how much of it reaches your hands.

Chest press: Arsenal Strength Reloaded

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Incline press: Arsenal Strength Reloaded

Incline press weight by brand: stacks, starting weight and what the pin means

Shoulder press: Arsenal Strength Reloaded

Shoulder press weight by brand: stacks, increments and what the pin means

Seated row: Arsenal Strength Reloaded

Seated row and low row weight by brand: stacks, increments and what the pin means

Leg press: Arsenal Strength Reloaded

Leg press weight: is what you load what you push?

Arsenal Strength selectorized machines

Arsenal's selectorized machines have a weight stack instead of a starting weight. Where the product page states the stack, it is below with the link and the date; otherwise: no data yet.

Compare with other brands

To see the starting weight or the stack of the same movement at other brands, open the guide for that movement or the plate-loaded starting weight guide, which lists every plate-loaded machine in the catalog.

Converting a load between two machines needs a force curve for both. No Arsenal Strength machine has one yet, so the comparator answers "No data yet" for every Arsenal pair.

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How every figure is labelled

MachineConvert never invents a number. Each figure carries one of three levels, with its source link and the date it was read:

Measured

Read on the machine itself with a force gauge, following the measurement protocol, with a proof (continuous video or photos) and the date.

Manufacturer

Quoted word for word from the manufacturer's official page or document, in the units printed there, with the link and the date it was read. A stack weight says what the plates weigh, not what you feel at the handle.

Estimated

Computed from a mechanical model of the machine (lever, cam or pulley) built from sourced inputs. Each estimate shows its method, its error band and a derivation page, and is marked as not verified by measurement.

MethodologyData rules

Help fill the gaps

If you train on an Arsenal Strength machine and have a luggage scale or a force gauge, measuring the empty arm or the force at a given load is the fastest way to turn "No data yet" into a real comparison. Every submission is reviewed before it is published.

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Arsenal Strength machines in the catalog

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Related guides

Plate-loaded machine starting weight by brand: what the empty machine weighsShoulder press weight by brand: stacks, increments and what the pin meansSeated row and low row weight by brand: stacks, increments and what the pin meansLeg press weight: is what you load what you push?Incline press weight by brand: stacks, starting weight and what the pin meansChest press weight stacks by brand: Technogym vs Life Fitness vs Hammer StrengthPlate-loaded vs selectorized machines: why the numbers differ