I had a pair of 25s and 35s of these during covid and bought them right at the start to get some weights up at a place I was working at away from home. They were fine. Good tolerances, design is cool. But they're not MiUSA and the price is comparable to Strength Co weights, which are MiUSA, so really you're paying for the Rogue name and a little bit of CS on some Chinese plates. For all of that, they're fine. I wouldn't think of buying them now with Strength Cos out there and with Rogue's USA Made plates coming in at a simliar price for a set, no contest. I did sell these for a little bit of a profit when I was able to get a full set of irons that better aligned with what I was looking for in my space, so there is an upside to someone writing Rogue all over something.

I owned these very briefly during covid, which turned out to be a very good time for me to learn what I wanted in a weight plate. There was quite a bit of scarcity at the time, but I had a job that allowed me to pretty much constantly refresh websites and get in on re-stocks. I purchased these because they were available. They were the same price as Rogue's Echos at the time (Rep charged for shipping) and my invoice had them at about $400 w/shipping for a 230 lb set. that's up to $520 now plus tax, so quite a bit of an increase, but in line with Echos. The problem I had with these was like most other budget friendly bumpers at the time, they were THICK: 2.8" for a 45, while Echos come in at 2.4", easier to handle plus you can get more on the bar. I wouldn't buy these given Echos are the same price, and especially now that Fringe Savages are 1/2" thinner. If you're going budget right now, Echos are the thing, Savages are $619 for a 230 lb set. I'd get Savages because I think they're just a better plate, but I'd wait for a big sale, which come frequent enough. Unless you're buying comp bumpers, these are pretty much what I'd look at.

I initially had the 5 bar version and ended up selling it and getting the 9 bar version. The biggest drawback for the 5 bar is the stability. If you have 2 bars on one side and none on the other, it will tip over. So at one point I had 3 bars - one was a trap bar and on the other side I had a curl bar and an SSB. When I took the SSB off and the curl bar, it almost put a hole in my wall. Build quality was good and the price was as well; but I didn’t like having that happen, so I got the 9 bar holder instead.

I have to knock a star off for performance because it’s almost impossible to move around the gym. I had this for a few years and love the camber action on box squats. It really messes up your balance and forces crazy focus on your core. I ended up swapping this bar for a set of Rogue monos and couldn’t have been happier. I’ve replaced this bar with a pair of camber attachments from StrongArm Sport - it feels nearly identical to having the camber bar but it’s not a starting weight of 85 pounds so much easier to move around and easier for athletes with lower range benches and squats to use it. The Titan bar is good for the money if you have the space as well as the desire/ability to move it all around.

Okay, so this IS NOT a commercial piece of equipment, let's get that out of the way entirely right now. But, it helped me recover from knee surgery, so it'll always have a place in my heart. We bought it prior to having a home gym, per se. We always had a treadmill (living in a perennially wet climate, we liked having the option for indoor cardio), so this just went next to the treadmill. It felt cheap. It is cheap. In every sense. Bare bones, and low cost. But definitely did what it was supposed to do. The problem was, we took it partially apart to get it into the moving van and after we moved into our house, it never worked right again. So if you buy this, don't ever take it apart. We tossed it out, but after some time, my knees are getting cranky again. So we decided to get another one about 2 years ago. It was just too flimsy for us now that we are accustomed to having a great home gym. So we donated it to the parish priest and ended up with a Precor commercial recumbent bike. The difference is startling. And we paid $400 for the used Precor while this thing is retailing now for $200. That is a no-brainer if you can move the awkward Precor to get it into your home (or similar, I see sub $500 commercial pieces around me all the time). I paid $119 the first time I bought this bike, but I paid $249 the second time, the value is no longer there.

This was... ok. I paid $49 for this when I first bought my PR 4000 rack. At 2x the price currently without any additional design changes, and given you can get the far superior Kleva version on Rep's website for $40 more, this is a HARD PASS. Not sure why they have doubled the price on this but I would not do it. It was fine to use, I suppose, but having gone to Kleva years ago (before the Rep collab), just wouldn't feel right using something like this again.

I owned the Fitness Reality X Class 1500lb Light Commercial Utlility Bench as my first adjustable bench when I Amazoned a gym together in 2019 for the first time when we moved to AZ. It also had a leg developer that I bought separately. Altogether, the thing was just under $500. You can get so much more today for $500. But I knew little at the time about the home gym game, wasn't a serious nerd back then. What I did learn about this bench when I got it in was how unreasonably tall it was. I want to say it was between 20" and 21" and clearly was designed by a giant or by someone who had no idea about lifting. For starters, no lehhhhg draaaahve from flat bench, and I felt like a child in a Dennys booth trying to put my feet into the leg developer. The bench was well constructed but the vinyl was slippery and the overall use was horrendous. I quickly learned from my mistake and sold it off for a hefty loss and started down the Rep and Rogue bench road to bench perfection and have not looked back.

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.