Speediance Gym Monster Smart Home Gym, Multifunctional Strength Training Machine, Smith Machine Power Cage Workout Station, Squat Rack Cable Machine, Full Body Fitness Equipment for Home Workout

DISCLAIMER: I'm not affiliated with Speediance in any way, nor am I being paid for this review. After two months of owning the machine and working out every single day, I wanted to give an in-depth overview of my experience as this has honestly been the best purchase for my health I've ever made and so far has exceeded all expectations. IF YOU READ NOTHING ELSE, BUY THIS MACHINE IF YOU ARE ON THE FENCE! FITNESS HISTORY: I'll be 40 this year, and have been in and out of every gym imaginable over the past 15 years. I've primarily worked out with free weights the entire time, with a few months of Orange Theory, Crossfit, F45 thrown in. Although I'm fairly fit and active, consistency has always been an issue for me. I'll go 12-18 months getting in amazing shape, take a 2 week vacation or get sick, then go 6 months sliding backwards until I repeat the cycle all over again. ALTERNATIVES: Before purchasing the Speediance, I was dead set on getting a Tonal after trying one out in a local mall. Unfortunately since I live in a Condo, I couldn't risk the noise that travels through the walls which IS a major issue if you research the Facebook / Reddit groups that talk about this. With that in mind, I was debating between Speediance, Vitruvian, and Oxefit as free standing solution. I chose Speediance since it was extremely compact compared to the Oxefit (which shouldn't be a part of any home gym unless you have a huge house), and the Vitruvian only allowed for exercises from the floor (the stand accessory was canceled last year due to lack of demand). POSITIVES: The Speediance honestly blew me away when I first received it and the build quality is much better than I was expecting after reading some complaints on the FB groups & Reddit. • Size: The Speediance is extremely compact and looks amazing next to my Peleton. It literally takes up around the same amount of floor space as my Powerblock Dumbbell stand. If you live in an apartment or condo, you can put this thing nearly anywhere and barely notice it once the platform is up. • Price / Subscription: I'm lucky enough in my career where price wasn't a determining factor in deciding between which smart gym to purchase. With that said, Speediance can't be beat if you purchase now with the free lifetime subscription, and there's no world where I could ever recommend purchasing a tonal at 2x the upfront cost + $750/yr in subscription fees. It honestly feels like a steal. • Cables vs Free Weights: I've done a lot of barbell/dumbell work in my day, but honestly rarely use cable machines outside of facepulls / lat pulldowns / tricep work. I was expecting this to feel like a Bowflex which is my only real experience with cable resistance, but it's nothing like that. The best way to explain it as it's like free weights on steroids and you can feel all the stabilizer muscles working. Bench presses, squats, deadlifts etc all feel much better to me than traditional free weights. • 220lb Resistance: I'm not a powerlifter or a large guy, but am strong for my size (5'7). My 1RM for barbell work is 180lb Bench, 220lb Squat, 240lb Deadlift. Originally I was worried that I would max out this machine fairly quickly for certain movements, but the cable resistance has humbled me. When I did my first strength assessment each lift was easily 25%+ less than what I can do with free weights, aka unless you are a huge power lifter you aren't going to max out this machine. • Variety of Movements: With free weights I will normally stick to the standard compound lifts and the accessory exercises I've always known. The huge array of different movements built into the software + instructions on how to perform them has really opened my eyes on how much I was limiting myself. Workouts are never boring now, and I think this is one of the biggest things motivating me to use this every day. • Screen Tilt: This is absolutely huge and allows you to look at the screen for almost every movement. IE when I do a bench press, I can tilt the screen 90 degrees and see every rep, power, etc. This is a small thing, but makes a big difference when working out which no other machine does to my knowledge. CONS: There's truly very few cons I've found with the Speediance. • Accessories: This is honestly the only area where Speediance feels "cheap", and I'm a little baffled at what they try to sell some of the accessories for (IE Handles). I'm including a section on all my top recommended third-party accessories I recommend, and a few accessories I think you should buy through Speediance. • Cable Burn: Without the cable extenders, some exercises will give you major cable burn causing you to never do them. Again, this is solvable with the Cable Extender accessory… INCLUDE IT WITH EVERY PURCHASE. TLDR; I had much more to say but I’ve hit the character limit for a review. Buy the machine!

I purchased the Gym Monster (GM 1) almost 6 months ago and I have been incredibly pleased with the product and its versatility. As a long time gym goer, I am impressed with the machine's ability to adapt to all workouts, with significant weight capacity, up to 220 lbs. (And in fact if feels heavier than lifting regular weights due to the electronic pulley resistance / technology.) The machine is easy to set up - it basically works straight out of the box, and it's pretty intuitive with the various workouts and movements. There are a ton of workouts and programs available from beginner level to more advanced types of movements and courses. What's even more exciting is the community around the machine where some users can upload their custom workouts for all members to use. So you will find hundreds of movements and workouts available for the various muscle groups. And even better is the community on Facebook where a lot of users can help with technical troubleshooting and/or offer advice for weightlifting as necessary. (Reddit as well, but Facebook has more audience in my opinion.) The AI aspect (software) is pretty powerful and automatically adjusts the weight for my intensity, and in a recent software update, it offers programs and workouts to fit my specific goals. It will also adapt to my daily/weekly workout routine and suggest different workouts and programs based on my muscle fatigue. I think it's pretty cool! Overall it's a great, smart, at-home gym that rivals a real gym workout experience, and in my opinion, better than a lot of other competing products in the market.

I've been using this for 7 weeks as of this writing. The Speediance resistance machine and the workouts they offer are spectacular. Unfortunately, the size of the product appears just too difficult for Amazon and its last-mile service. I'd recommend buying directly from Speediance instead of Amazon. The Product: I compare this to years of free weight lifting (high school, college, and into my 30's); then a few years using single purpose, rigid machines at a gym, then a couple years using a universal cable / pulley machine at home. The rigid machines were the worst because they limited range of motion and sometimes caused stress or minor injury. Free weights have the most range, but the cable systems offer more than enough resistance and range of motion to give a great workout without that type of injury. The Speediance's advantages over the traditional cable machine are (1) small form factor, (2) ease of setup and moving to different locations after setup, and (3) great integrated display with tons of well-designed workouts. I bought it for the form factor but have been really impressed by the quality of included workouts. One of the signs that they really focus on the workout is that they include appropriate muscle stretches for a few minutes at the beginning and end. Also, they'll throw in planks, sit ups, and other exercises that don't require the machine because they seem to focus on quality of the workout, not just the machine. The machine's resistance for lifting is great! To me, it "feels" heavier than the weight I select, so I workout with lower numbers than I might at the gym with free weights. The bluetooth ring they supply to activate, deactivate and change the weight is really convenient and easy to use -- allowing for quick adjustments to the amount of weight and to release the weight if you "hit the wall." For that and many reasons, the workouts on this seem so efficient because transitioning from one exercise to another is very, very easy and quick. Notably, the workouts are really well designed to provide a full (or targeted) workout, efficiently. I'd recommend starting with the four-week full-body beginner's plan if you, like me, hadn't been working out for a while before receiving this. it has stretching, warm-ups, and great exercises 3 days per week, and I felt that I'd safely built some strength to tackle more vigorous exercises after completing it. Definitely had some soreness, but built strength and focuses on good form and learning the machine while building a base of strength. If you're not getting back into weight training after a long absences, like me, there are tons of intermediate and advanced programs to try ... along with free form lifting or creating your own programs. You can do strength assessments with this, which will then populate the exercises with a suggested amount of weight based on your strength. There are actually many other reasons I've loved this, but it's time for the Delivery problems. Without going into too many details, I will give a suggestion to make your delivery better than mine. As mentioned above, just buy directly from Speediance. If that's not an option, suffice it to say I lost two days (4 hours each) waiting for the delivery and spent many hours on the phone. Amazon support seemed like they could help, but they didn't. NSD, the delivery company lied about not having it in their warehouse, about having tried to contact me, about the missed days being Amazon's fault. Seems they lie to satisfy Amazon's metrics and don't care about the person or the delivery. If you decide to take the chance of ordering via Amazon instead of directly from Speediance, please begin checking your order status regularly to see when it arrives at the local warehouse and has been assigned a tracking number -- within Amazon's system. As soon as that happens, you'll need to call them (NSD) directly to schedule your delivery (even though Amazon's and their websites will show the delivery date you selected upon purchase.) Call and schedule! Otherwise, they'll miss your first delivery and claim they tried to call you but couldn't reach you. Mine was a week late and could have been much closer to on t-me since it arrived to their warehouse about 4 days before my scheduled delivery date. Just call and reschedule with them as soon as it hits the warehouse and has a tracking number. Good luck!

Speediance might have not invented the smart home gym, but they made it available to the masses. I am the type of guy who has paid for a gym membership for the past 4 years and have been a total of about 10 times in that time. With 2 kids, a full time job and the challenges of daily life, I never had time to go to the gym. And the odd time I went, I was intimidated by the people waiting for machines. Who wants to chest press 75lbs while the guy before was using 200lbs? That's not to mention if another guy stands next to me waiting for me to be done. Then, I really felt the pressure to either finish quickly or leave. That's not to mention sitting on equipment used by someone else and not wiped clean. Well, the Speediance Gym Monster fixed all that. Now, I have my own machine that does everything I need in terms of strength training. I waited 2 months before posting a review, and here's my assessment so far : 1) The convenience of being able to work out for 15 or 20 mins whenever you have free time is amazing. It let's me squeeze in a few movements here and there that I would've never been able to do in a gym because of lack of time. 2) The resistance is accurate in term of weight, but if "feels" even heavier than static weights because it's actually pulling against you. 3) I have managed to visibly build muscle in 2 months while only working out 3 times a week for about 30-40 minutes. 4) There's pre-made workouts for beginners like me. It starts you off with some targeted stretches to reduce the risk of injury while working out. It also gives you breaks between movements and finishes your workout with more stretches. 5) The developpers actually update the software to make it better. You're not buying a machine that will be stuck in 2025 for 6 years. 6) The machine will start you off with small weights and calculate how easy you're doing the reps. It will gradually increase the weight until it senses you're actually struggling. It will store all that info for the next time you work that specific muscle group. Considering I used to go to the gym once every 3 months, I used to have to write down how much I can handle of every machine. No more of that nonsense. 7) I have increased the weights I can lift by about 40% in 2 months. I was stagnant for 3 years because I wasn't regular enough. Now, there's no excuse not to work out for 15-20 mins before a shower a few times a week. 8) The machine lets you create different profiles for different users. My wife has her weight data and presets, I have mine. Overall, it's a beautiful product that has changed how I see strength training and that will certainly have a deep impact on my health on the long run.

I didn’t receive the full package. I only received the main machine without the flat bench and without the rower. I’m super disappointed considering the fact that it was so expensive. I also did not receive the hooks for the barbell. Such a disappointing delivery experience.

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It’s absolutely amazing, more than 500 exercises and 700 trainings. The rower machine is also super cool and definitely worth it! It came with the updated bench of gym monster 2! But paying for assembly it’s a waste of time, there’s no assembly to be made on the machine, only the rower accessory which you can easily do it yourself.

Ich nutze das Speediance Home Gym jetzt seit 1.5 Jahren ca. fast täglich und bin restlos begeistert. Es ist wirklich das mit Abstand beste Gerät, das ich je in meinem Homegym hatte. Ich war so überzeugt, dass ich alle meine anderen Fitnessgeräte verkauft habe – bis auf ein Springseil und einen EPS-Roller, die ich ab und zu noch ergänzend nutze. Das Speediance eignet sich perfekt für ein effektives Ganzkörpertraining. Egal ob Oberkörper, Beine oder Core – ich kann alle Muskelgruppen damit abdecken. Für mich war es die beste Investition, gerade weil ich mit Kindern und Familie oft keine Zeit habe, ins Fitnessstudio zu fahren. So kann ich flexibel mal untertags oder abends in den Keller gehen und trainieren, ohne viel Zeit zu verlieren. Ein weiterer Pluspunkt: Das Gerät braucht wirklich extrem wenig Platz. Es lässt sich auch problemlos im Wohnzimmer aufstellen, ohne dass es den Raum stört. Für alle, die zuhause effizient und platzsparend trainieren wollen, kann ich das Speediance uneingeschränkt empfehlen!