A Hot🔥 or Not🧊 Switch Up

Intro to a New “Hot or Not” Method

Earlier this week, we switched up the “Hot” or “Not” survey a bit to include warm and neutral options, which helps to determine a “hot rating.” The “Hot Rating” is an average of the points per vote where:

• Hot = 3 points
• Warm = 1 points
• Neutral = 0 points
• Cold = -2 points

Therefore, the highest possible average is 3, and the lowest is -2. For this first week, we took some of the most popular items from the previous survey and a few others, so the overall average of this first survey may be a little high.

Let’s talk about the results…

Hot Rating

• The average rating this week was 1.52. All results are below.

Rank	Item	Hot Rating🌶️
1	Rogue RM-4	2.38
2	Rogue RM-6	2.21
3	Rogue Adjustable Bench 3.0	2.01
4	Rep AB-5200	1.93
5	Rogue Echo Bike	1.81
6	Rogue Change Plates	1.54
7	Rep FT-5000	1.30
8	Kabuki Transformer Bar	1.22
9	Savage Bumper Plates	1.17
10	Powerblock Dumbbells	0.61
11	Force USA G20	0.51

• The Rogue RM-4 took the top spot this week, which is similar to the previous “Hot” or “Not” results where it was the #1 item for the year. It beat out it’s bigger brother, the RM-6 by .17.

• The Rogue Adjustable Bench 3.0 topped it’s primary adjustable bench rival (and cheaper alternative) in the REP AB-5200.

• It will be interesting to compare how a number of these items compare to others in the upcoming weeks. For example how does the 1.81 score of the Rogue Echo Bike compare to the Concept 2 Rower. Or, will the REP Change Plates score be near the Rogue option? Savage Bumper Plates vs. Flecks?

• The Rogue RM-4 captured a Hot Rating nearly 5x higher than the Force USA G20.

Voting Breakdown

Item	% Hot	% Warm	% Neutral	% Cold
Rogue RM-4	75.63%	17.01%	4.44%	2.93%
Rogue RM-6	68.54%	21.05%	7.77%	2.64%
Rogue Adjustable Bench 3.0	57.09%	33.77%	7.31%	1.84%
Rep AB-5200	54.52%	33.83%	9.50%	2.15%
Rogue Echo Bike	53.79%	29.55%	11.61%	5.05%
Rogue Change Plates	45.36%	30.83%	17.53%	6.27%
Kabuki Transformer Bar	38.14%	29.73%	21.06%	11.07%
Rep FT-5000	36.63%	36.85%	18.30%	8.22%
Savage Bumper Plates	33.57%	35.49%	21.23%	9.72%
Powerblock Dumbbells	25.17%	25.90%	28.51%	20.42%
Force USA G20	25.00%	24.06%	26.86%	24.08%

• Those with at least 50% of Hot Votes included the RM-4, RM-6, Rogue Adjustable Bench 3.0, REP AB-5200, and Rogue Echo Bike.

• The items with the most “cold” votes were the Force USA G20, Powerblock Dumbbells, and Kabuki Transformer Bar. All of these are not necessarily seen as home gym essentials.

• Only about a quarter of total votes were either “neutral” or “cold.”

Hot/Cold Ratio

• All items this week had more “hot” votes than “cold.” The average ratio was 12.7 to 1. This was expected for this week since most of them were the most popular from the previous surveys.

Item	Hot/Cold Ratio
Rogue Adjustable Bench 3.0	31.04
Rogue RM-6	25.99
Rogue RM-4	25.80
Rep AB-5200	25.34
Rogue Echo Bike	10.64
Rogue Change Plates	7.23
Rep FT-5000	4.46
Savage Bumper Plates	3.45
Kabuki Transformer Bar	3.44
Powerblock Dumbbells	1.23
Force USA G20	1.04

• The Rogue Adjustable Bench actually had the highest hot to cold ratio with 31 hot votes to every 1 cold vote. Only 1.84% voted this bench as “cold.”

• The Force USA G20 had the lowest ratio at 1.04.

Going Forward

This method will likely be used, at least for the rest of 2021. All results will be compiled together from each week on a master list, similar to the previous method.

When taking the survey, it’s not quite as exhilarating because you don’t get that instant feedback compared to simply using Instagram polls, but there is so much more analysis you can do this way.

Please send any feedback if you have any!

All Votes

Item	Hot	Warm	Neutral	Cold	Total
Rogue RM-4	4,927	1,108	289	191	6,515
Rogue RM-6	4,393	1,349	498	169	6,409
Rogue Adjustable Bench 3.0	3,508	2,075	449	113	6,145
Rep AB-5200	3,547	2,201	618	140	6,506
Rogue Echo Bike	3,480	1,912	751	327	6,470
Rogue Change Plates	2,965	2,015	1,146	410	6,536
Kabuki Transformer Bar	2,287	1,783	1,263	664	5,997
Rep FT-5000	2,268	2,282	1,133	509	6,192
Savage Bumper Plates	2,114	2,235	1,337	612	6,298
Powerblock Dumbbells	1,659	1,707	1,879	1,346	6,591
Force USA G20	1,592	1,532	1,710	1,533	6,367

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