SimianLogic's Reviews (5)


(3.00)
5/7/2026
I think I spent ~$90 on this and used it for a couple of months before paying ~$400 for the RitFit. It does leg extensions well enough to burn out your quads, but it was a massive pain to set up. I have most of the pieces lying around the gym still -- I used the bottom leg roller for a little while on my rack but the screw snapped off after about a year. Cheap junk, but better than nothing if you don't have more space. Would just get a bench-attached one today if I didn't have space for the standalone.
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(4.33)
4/29/2026
You can also use it for specific foot/ankle rehab exercises, but I mostly just use it as a calf block for calf raises. There's a little hollow that lets your toes really sink/dig in. No idea if it does anything, but it feels like it's doing something different. Not the cheapest/best calf block but I rotate between this and a slant board. If you're into balance boards or slack blocks already you'd probably like it (I do!).
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(4.33)
4/23/2026
I have a rackable EZ curl bar, but it's so wide that it was hard to do pullovers in my space (on the decline bench). I got this bar for just that one movement and it does that job well. Also sees some bonus use as a 3-grip-option hammer curl bar. The outer grips are not quite as flat as an ez curl and not quite a full hammer, but I think of them as normal-curl-flavored hammer curls and reverse-curl-flavored hammer curls. The weight horns are too short to use it for bench work (get a real multi-grip bar for that). The "bonus" features are mostly useless. I might saw off the cable attachment point -- it makes the bar very tippy if you put it cable-side down. This thing is 15 lbs and a little too unwieldy to use as a cable attachment (plus I have plenty of those already). As a landmine handle it's more interesting because theoretically you can load plates on the outside and get more ROM but the weight horns are very short (curl bar!). I have bumpers and would have to get some metal plates to go over one plate per side (I *might* be able to fit 2 plates per side if I dig some spring collars out of storage). I could see it being useful but I have other/better handles so I don't actually use it for landmine work. It's a tricep bar. It's cheap. I probably should've gotten the shorter square-looking one instead.
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(4.00)
4/23/2026
I pulled an old wall-mount 80s cable machine (DP GymPac) out of my parents' basement. It had a single high pulley at 2:1 that could be hooked to a low pulley. I sawed off its middle carriage to get about 8" more range of motion and swapped the original pulley for two high pulleys bolted to my ceiling joist. It was missing its weight stack pin, so I used a bike handle and some epoxy to make a "knurled" weight pin. Added some stickers. Planning to rebuild it using some longer guide rods, a 3x3 upright, a Dialed Motion retractor, and a DM Trolley at my next house.
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(5.00)
4/23/2026
I leave this thing next to my work-at-home desk and try to hit 3-4 movements a day as little movement breaks to get the blood moving. Still relatively new to lifting, but I figured out that if I do kettlebell halos regularly my shoulders don't get unhappy. I hit a breakpoint where doing them at 25 lbs on my Bowflex KB was too easy and 35 lbs was too hard and looked around for a more granular tool. Found Mark Wildman's youtube videos and decided to give 2H club swinging a go. At 6'3, this is more of a 2H Club than a mace (they sell it as a bulava and in-between club/mace). Worked through some YT videos and ended up with enough movements (2H swings like a KB, 360s, pendulums, mills) to get my money's worth. I don't do any kind of leg work on it (lunges with a 20lb isometric bicep hold are idiotic) but it ticks the box well for shoulders + rotation + grip and I can continue to add weight over time in tiny increments. Only con (not worth deducting a star): the standard plastic lockjaw collars that came with it started slipping at ~15-18 lbs but the amazon keppi special holds pretty tight as long as I don't bang it on a ceiling joist. The club itself is great, though!
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