Medium Sized Craig's Reviews (90)


(4.67)
4/16/2026
I think I bought this scale via the Vintage Weights PGH youtube channel. Pros: Accurate, goes up to 440 lbs, easy to set up. Cons: The display is attached to the scale by a wire, and has a wall mount. Unfortunately the wire is so short that if you wall mount it, you can't see the display while standing on the scale. Highly recommended. I do a lot of grip training and I use this to weigh whatever implements I'm lifting. Also I highly recommend putting something over the metal surface of the scale (I used a cut down carpet tile, plywood would also work) to avoid metal-on-metal contact
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(5.00)
4/16/2026
I love to curl in my squat rack, however as I've gotten older, curling with a barbell is beginning to irritate my elbows. I googled rackable ez curl bars and ended up being advertised these. Excellent piece of kit, just put a slight angle onto the handle, easy to slip on and off the barbell, and saved me some money and the space.
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(4.00)
4/16/2026
I bought this bar to fit a very specific niche for myself: Seal rows (hence the camber) in a cramped part of my gym (hence wanting a short bar). This is the only bar I could find that fit both of these things. It works great, although I will say the coating was scratched before I even got it out of the box, and continues to get scratched if I so much as breathe in its direction. Do I really care? No, but it irks me a little
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(5.00)
4/16/2026
I'm exceedingly happy with this bench. This was my first upgrade from the cheapo Amazon option, and it is serving me well. I went for the IM bench because of the large attachment ecosystem. It's well built and light, and I would buy it again in an instant. The seat angle thing that comes up in many reviews happens not to bother me. I just tend not to put the seat on until around 45 degrees (e.g. I generally incline bench at a lower incline without the seat on there), and at higher inclines it's less of an issue. One gripe I do have is that the seat positions are numbered, but the numbers aren't on the same side of the bench as the foot pedal you press down, which is the one I always use. would love to have seen the numbers be on both sides.
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(4.33)
4/15/2026
This was my first pulley system, and it was really good for what it was. First, the pros: 1. It's an inexpensive way of getting a cable system into your gym if you have a spare upright (note, it isn't removable, you're giving up an unright here), 2. Plate loaded, which works great for me, 3. Has both upper and lower pulleys, which can be swapped out quickly. The big downside for me was that I have a shorter ceiling, and after mounting the lower pulley, the upper pulley and the trolley itself I was never able to get the ROM I needed. I also bought the lat pulldown seat to go with that, but as you can see in the photo below, if I were to mount a seat above the lower pulley, the trolley would be pushed up even further and the ROM would be terrible. I'm not going to dock points from a review because of my ceiling, but I will note that the tolerances were never quite spot on, and I could never stop the trolley from rubbing on the uprights, and also my initial order was missing a few pieces (which took two rounds of iteration to correct), so I'll knock a couple of points off build quality. That said, if you have a high ceiling and want to get started with a cable system, this one did me well.
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(4.00)
4/15/2026
I bought this initially when I was using the full Revolt pulley system so I could low row off my rack. I have upgraded fromt he pulley system, but saw no reason to remove the footplate from my rack, Every now and again I come across a movement where having a stable plate to pull against it useful. The big pro here is that this is inexpensive. The downside is that there is some give in the manufacturing tolerances, the plates always have a bit of slop when pinned in. I don't think they're going to break at all, but it does feel a bit rickety.
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(4.67)
4/15/2026
I was a little doubtful when I first bought this because I lift in a temperature and humidity controlled basement, so rust isn't really a problem. That said, I had noticed that the knurling on my dumbbells was losing all its shine, so I took a flyer on this. Let me tell you, I was extremely freaked out by the amount of skin dust that came out of that knurling, and now they're shiny and good as new. 10/10, extremely gross experience.
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(5.00)
4/15/2026
This used to be my main rack when my gym was smaller, as I added more space, this turned into a rack attachment center. It currently has foot rests, dual ancore pros, a landline attachment. The uprights are 81" tall, the same height as my basement, so I couldn't mount the pull-up bar high. I ended up putting the diagonal bars low so that I can give the Ancore system a new angle to pull from, and mounted additional wall mounts on sideways from the top of the rack so I can cover them in hooks for small equipment pieces. Overall, I have no criticisms of this piece, it served me well as a rack and now as whatever it is
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