Merrithew SPX Reformer Bundle - Best for Advanced Practice & Rehabilitation
A professional-grade, classical reformer bundled with a tower and box. Designed for advanced users and rehab, it offers the most comprehensive exercise repertoire but demands significant space and skill.
- +Includes a foldable vertical tower for Cadillac-like exercises targeting flexibility and rehab
- +Bundle comes with a reformer box to expand seated and lying exercise options
- +Classical spring system with five heavy, even-tension springs builds significant strength
- -Tower requires high ceilings and adds considerable vertical space demands
- -Heavy spring tension makes it challenging and not suitable for beginners
- -Bulky design at 96 inches long and 115 pounds is difficult to move or store
The Merrithew At Home SPX Reformer Bundle is a serious apparatus for elevating a Pilates practice to professional or rehabilitative levels. It is a classical-style reformer, meaning its five springs provide heavy, uniform resistance, demanding and building considerable strength, control, and endurance—it is unequivocally for advanced practitioners. The included foldable vertical tower is its most transformative component, attaching to the reformer base to mimic a Cadillac or Trapeze Table. This tower features spring-resistant push-through bars and loops, enabling a vast array of exercises focused on spinal articulation, deep stretching, and targeted muscle work often used in therapeutic settings. The bundle also includes a reformer box, which is essential for proper execution of the short-box series and provides support for knee-friendly modifications. The carriage is padded for comfort, and the foot bar adjusts to four positions.
However, this capability comes with spatial demands beyond just floor space. The tower structure requires ample vertical clearance when in use, making low-ceilinged rooms impractical. The entire unit is substantial, measuring 96 inches long and weighing 115 pounds, so it is a permanent fixture in a dedicated home gym. The classical spring tension, while excellent for building power, offers less granular resistance adjustment than contemporary color-coded systems, which can limit exercise scaling. For the dedicated athlete, instructor, or individual using Pilates for targeted rehabilitation, this bundle provides studio-level versatility and challenge unmatched by standard reformers.