Which One, Specialty Bar Matchup, Equipment You Miss, 🔥 or 🥶, Prices Going Up?

Topics

• Sunday Survey Results – Rogue, Rep, Garages, and Powerlifting are the winners

• Transformer vs. Marrs – A Specialty Squat Bar Matchup for the Ages – 2 polls, 2 different results

• What’s the one piece of equipment you miss most from a different gym when using your home gym? – Steam room, leg press, full dumbbell racks, and ceiling height issues were mentioned most.

• Hot or Not Results – Another REP bench comes out on top.

• Most believe that equipment prices will continue to go up – 🤬🤬

Sunday Survey – Which One?

This Sunday Survey was a list of matchups, where you had to choose “which one” you preferred? They were random companies, pieces of equipment, workout styles, etc. The highlights include:

• The closest match was between the Rogue Echo Bike and Concept 2 Rower. The air bike eeked out a win with 50.2% of the votes.
• The Concept 2 Rower didn’t have any issues with its matchup against the SkiErg, which only gained about 16.5% of the votes.
• Rogue was pretty dominant with wins over Titan and Sorinex. Both times they received over 80% of the votes.
• REP also took down Titan with over 3 out of every 5 votes and the mighty Sorinex.
• About 4 out of 5 with went the garage over the basement for their home gym.
• 2 out of 3 went with bumper over iron plates
• Powerlifting beat out CrossFit, Bodybuilding, and Strongman.
• The second closest matchup was with loadable dumbbells (i.e., Rogue DB-15) just losing to adjustable dumbbells (i.e., Powerblock)

• All results for this year can be found here.

What’s the one piece of equipment you miss most from a different gym when using your home gym?

This question was asked as the #sundaysurveydiscussion. Keep in mind this was just looking for “equipment” answers. Highlights include:

• The #1 item piece of equipment missed was the leg press. Hack squat, leg curl/extension, and calf machines were also mentioned for lower body exercises.
• Most do not have the convenience of “an entire rack of dumbbells.”
• Those with access to a sauna or steam room at their other gym.
• Cable crossovers or anything pulley-related has not yet made its way to most home gyms.
• Many expressed certain exercises they could not perform due to ceiling height issues – for example, rope climb or muscle-ups.
• “Hammer Strength” was mentioned quite a bit.
• All responses can be found here.

Hot or Not Results

• The Rep AB-5000 takes the crown this week is is #4 of the entire 2021 list.

• The three most recent products Rogue released were 2, 3, and 4
• You all did the Titan Cable Crossover DIRTY

Rank	Item	Hot🔥	Not🥶	% 🔥
1	Rep AB-5000	6,030	657	90.17%
2	Rogue USA Aluminum Collars – Magnetic	5,961	1,072	84.76%
3	Monster Lite Half Rack	5,759	1,168	83.14%
4	Rogue 24″ Wall Storage Stringer	5,501	1,688	76.52%
5	Kadillac Bar	4,774	1,611	74.77%
6	PRX Pro Rack	4,607	2,210	67.58%
7	REP FT-3000	4,590	2,364	66.01%
8	Ryobi Leaf Blower	4,361	2,520	63.38%
9	Immortal Wall Ball	4,010	2,516	61.45%
10	Torque M1	3,929	2,751	58.82%
11	Lion Kettlebell – Zoobell	4,021	3,077	56.65%
12	Titan Cable Crossover	2,289	4,680	32.85%
	Total	55,832	26,314	67.97%

Most Believe that equipment prices will continue to go up

• In a recent story post, 78% believe that the prices of equipment will continue to go up.
• The primary reason appears to be that the price of steel is going up rapidly. This, in combination with a high demand for gym equipment, is a deadly combination for the buyer.
• A perfect example is the Titan Lat Pulldown pictured below that was about 10% cheaper last week.