I bought a rusty set of these on the cheap, wasn't really expecting too much from them, but I have been bitten by the vintage iron bug and when I see plates that are in the Iron Guide out in the wild, I tend to want to get them. What I will say is that after I cleaned these up (oxalic acid bath and a lot of scrubbing, nothing super fancy), and added ivory colored paint to the lettering, these are one of the most nicely cast plates I have. The lettering and detail is phenomenal. They do have one weird feature. The hub protrudes more than the rim, so there are gaps between them when they're sitting on a bar. This is a mixed bag. It irks me, but also it makes it super easy to grab them.

I got this off Amazon as a replacement for my first bench -- an even cheaper Amazon one. I got it because it has a hyperextension pad, and it worked fine for that. However, the thing I was not expecting was that this is *not an incline bench*. Just look at the picture, there are three adjustment hooks and they all move the bench in the decline position. It's a decline-but-not-incline bench. I kept it around for quite a while as a back extension (before saving space with the Ironmaster hyperextension bench attachment), but it has gone out to Facebook marketplace.

This is the best bar I have ever owned. I mean, it's a Rogue Ohio with extra aggressive knurling. What's not to love. The knurling itself bites reasonably hard (I have the 2, not the 3). It's gradually eating through the plastic on my roller j cups. I do find with low bar squats the center knurling can be aggressive on the back, and I honestly probably wouldn't be psyched to drag this up my shins for deadlifts (not a problem for me because I exclusively do trap bar DL nowadays).

I bought this treadmill based on a Reddit recommendation, where it is widely considered to be a decent, entry level, no bells and whistles option. I don't really know what to add beyond that. It's a treadmill, it'll go up to 15 degrees of incline, and it goes faster than I need. Seems solid and reliable, and was also a lot less expensive than the "premium" brands. I also like that it doesn't connect to the Internet and try to sell me subscriptions.

I honestly wouldn't want to use the ancores without this. Added some magpins and it makes moving the ancores an absolute breeze.

I got this from Facebook marketplace. My units came from a CrossFit gym, so have seen a ton of use, but they're still going strong. I didn't want to jinx myself but it feels like these are simple enough mechanisms that they might work for many years to come. I probably wouldn't have paid full price for these, but "heavily used marketplace" price was acceptable. I keep these mounted on a rack with the darko rack mounts. Without that, fiddling with the Velcro straps world probably mean that I never used them. Weight feels reasonable. There is definitely a different feel from a weight stack. Not worse, just... Different. The biggest limitation with these is that they max out at 65 lbs. I double up my units for things like tri pushdowns, but also needed to keep a lat pulldown / low row machine for things where the combined weight isn't enough.

This was my first barbell and it served me well for a couple of years. I upgraded not necessarily because I had to, but just because I wanted to. It's inexpensive, the knurling is a bit passive, and my collars had some friction and didn't spin super great, but it gets the job done and handled everything the first few years of my home training threw at it

This is the bench I got to kickstart my gym alongside some bowflex adjustable dumbbells and some gym tiles that came with our house. It adjusts, it's reasonably sturdy, and it's extremely cheap. I probably wouldn't trust it now that I bench heavy, but for what it is -- an entry level bench -- you can't ask for more.