ISO Arms

Absolute trash. Don't believe the influencers who would have you believe you could recreate a commercial gym experience with lever arms. They're heavy. They're awkward. They take up so much space that you almost have to leave them on a rack or find an unused spot to keep them close by. The lever arm makes most of the things you'd use them for absurd. The only thing they are good for is actually using them as jammers, but most of us don't train something like that regularly, or can at least approximate that with a viking press attachment on a landmine. The best day I had in my gym was the first time I went in there and realized that these were gone. I really, really hated these things. For the price and all of the stupid additional things (Vendetta stuff, Kaizen stuff - remember that dude?), it will definitely overrun the cost of an actual commerical machine. I hope this message finds at least one person who is thinking about doing this and warns them off. Then, I'll have fulfilled my mission of keeping people from this idiocy. Stay away.

These would be great if….. I’m finding a lot of great things about lever arms but the things I want to set up are a huge pain. I left these on separate uprights to make it more desirable to set up. They are heavy awkward and actually started to scratch the paint off my uprights. I’ve waited months for the vendetta trolleys to be become available. I just find myself wanted to just move on to something better, I just gave up and took them off and got rogue trolleys and now I’m waiting on my vendetta adaptors . Currently for sale on fb mkt place. Luckily I bought these second hand I’m not losing too much on these.

I hate lever arms. These are more basic than the rogue and installing and moving them up and down is annoyingly more difficult.

REP Fitness ISO Arms are just okay unless you add the Vendetta adapters and different handles and weight plate pins. Then they are amazing and awesome but to add all those products can get pretty expensive but i think that is worth it. Many companies are starting to realize this and they are starting to design them with all those options.

I got these secondhand with my PR-4000 rack and I thought it'd be cool to use these. I used them for awhile to find out they are very cumbersome to set up for a 4-5 set workout. If you wanted to change the height and the placement of the arms themselves, it took >5 minutes to set up. You are literally sweating trying to position them JUST right for your exercise. I mainly used them for chest press, shoulder press, chest supported rows, and calf raises (with pull-up bar attached). I tried to do leg press but it wasn't the same. Then I tried to figure out how I can use these arms with the Dialed Motion Ibex functional trainer but I decided to take these down because of how much of a pain it was. Also the resistance curve was okay depending on the exercise.

Built well but I never used them. If you have these and like them or want them and know you’ll actually use them go for it. But removing them is a huge pain and they’re really not that versatile especially now with other options available. Mine are awaiting bulk trash pick up.