Have You Heard of These Companies & Leg Extension/Curl Options

This week we are talking about a couple of leg curl/extension options along with the 8th “have you heard of these companies” survey.

Our guest analyst was the founder of Freedom Fitness Equipment, Ashton Ferrazzo. Part 2 of this episode will include an interview with him.

The episode can be watched on YouTube or Spotify. It can also be listened to on Apple, Anchor, or wherever you get your podcasts!

We start the podcast by talking about our experience at the Arnold and then move on to the survey results.

(3:50) Which Leg Extension/Curl interests you more?

In this battle, we are looking at the rack-mounted option and a standalone one from Titan Fitness. The rack-mounted one is a bit cheaper, but not by much.

• The Rack-Mounted option wins barely with 40.3% of the votes vs. 38.5% voting standalone. About 21% said they were not interested in either.

(7:05) Have You Heard of These Companies?

This is the 8th edition of the “Have You Heard of These Companies Survey.” The first one of these was done in June of 2019. Most of these companies can outfit your entire gym with a few others thrown in. As always, this survey was done via the Instagram Story feature in the Sunday Survey.

Company	Yes	No	% Yes
Rogue Fitness	3,477	41	98.83%
Titan Fitness	3,427	72	97.94%
Rep Fitness	3,314	141	95.92%
AbMat	3,014	349	89.62%
Sorinex	2,738	432	86.37%
Vulcan Strength	2,840	455	86.19%
Fray Fitness	2,777	472	85.47%
American Barbell	2,891	514	84.90%
Kabuki Strength	2,691	499	84.36%
Bells of Steel	2,785	592	82.47%
Fringe Sport	2,830	622	81.98%
PRX Performance	2,668	658	80.22%
Get RXd	2,562	850	75.09%
Onnit	2,572	869	74.75%
Elite FTS	2,422	976	71.28%
Ghost Strong Equipment	2,182	1,077	66.95%
Force USA	2,194	1,109	66.42%
Kettlebell Kings	2,218	1,122	66.41%
Body-Solid	1,663	1,468	53.11%
The Strength Co	1,647	1,502	52.30%
Again Faster Equipment	1,655	1,545	51.72%
Bridge Built	1,333	1,771	42.94%
Raptor Fitness	1,258	1,838	40.63%
Crandall Fitness	969	2,069	31.90%
Gymway USA	831	2,460	25.25%
Strength Depot	778	2,389	24.57%
X Training Equipment	662	2,649	19.99%
Crane Fitness Equipment	484	2,533	16.04%
Freedom Fitness Equipment	241	2,771	8.00%

A few notes about the numbers above:

• It’s a tough (and probably unfair) comparison when you add a list with so many companies. There are established brands with a nationwide reach and happy to be a “regional” or “local” brand. Besides, some have equipment designed to help a certain type of training (i.e., powerlifting, CrossFit), so the reach may not be large. This is just something to keep in mind.

• Just because someone has heard of a certain company does not mean that they will consider purchasing from them.

• In an effort to keep the survey manageable and “fresh” certain companies are either added or removed

• In this survey all companies received at least 3,000 votes. However, that’s about a third of the votes we received last time. Therefore, It’s a bit of a different crowd, and it’s likely those who are the most knowledgable and passionate about this type of stuff.

Additional notes about the results:

• The top 3 did not change. Rogue, Titan, and REP have been the top 3 (in that order) since October 2020.

• AbMat moved up a spot into 4th place and Sorinex went from 10th to 5th!

• In places 6-10 were Vulcan, Fray, American Barbell, Kabuki, and Bells of Steel. They were all strongly in the 80 percentile.

• American Barbell fell from 4th to 8th, while PRX went from 6th to 12.

• Outside of Sorinex, the other largest “mover up” was Bells of Steel. When looking

• Newcomers to this list include Elite FTS (ranked 15), Crandall Fitness (ranked 24), The Strength Co (ranked 20), Strength Depot (ranked 26th) and Freedom Fitness Equipment (ranked 29).

• The biggest jumps since 2019 have been Force USA (315% from 16% to 66%), Ghost Strong (318% from 16% to 67%), Fray Fitness (167% from 32% to 85%), and Bells of Steel (85% from 45% to 82%)

• Two companies that are down from 2019 are Again Faster and Body-Solid.

	June 2019	October 2019	February 2020	June 2020	December 2020	March 2021	August 2021	March 2022
Rogue Fitness	98%	98%	99%	98%	96%	98%	97.4%	98.83%
Titan Fitness	93%	90%	93%	93%	93%	94%	94.4%	97.94%
Rep Fitness	74%	79%	86%	85%	82%	90%	86.8%	95.92%
AbMat					61%	75%	76.5%	89.62%
Sorinex	68%	66%	72%	70%	65%	76%	71.3%	86.37%
Vulcan Strength	61%	62%	78%	77%	70%	77%	74.5%	86.19%
Fray Fitness	32%	31%	60%	69%	68%	81%	73.2%	85.47%
American Barbell	76%	75%	73%	79%	74%	78%	82.6%	84.90%
Kabuki Strength	62%	60%	69%	69%	62%	73%	72.1%	84.36%
Bells of Steel	45%	44%	58%	62%	47%	67%	61.0%	82.47%
Fringe Sport	65%	68%	75%	66%	56%	67%	67.2%	81.98%
PRX Performance	68%	71%	73%	73%	68%	76%	74.8%	80.22%
Get RXd	60%	59%	71%	63%	59%	69%	65.2%	75.09%
Onnit					58%	68%	68.4%	74.75%
Ghost Strong Equipment	16%	20%	42%	51%	38%	52%	47.0%	66.95%
Force USA		16%	40%	41%	38%	62%	53.0%	66.42%
Kettlebell Kings					41%	53%	56.2%	66.41%
Body-Solid	54%	47%	56%	47%	35%	46%	42.3%	53.11%
Again Faster Equipment	53%	50%	57%	46%	37%	41%	42.6%	51.72%
Bridge Built				23%	22%	33%	31.3%	42.94%
Raptor Fitness	22%	26%	31%	22%	31%	43%	39.0%	40.63%
Gymway USA					16%	19%	19.5%	25.25%
X Training Equipment	19%	17%	24%	25%	17%	19%	20.2%	19.99%
Crane Fitness Equipment	11%	10%	6%		11%	23%	22.6%	16.04%
Valor Fitness	59%	45%
Powertec	43%	36%
Synergee Fitness	25%	22%	30%
Lynx Barbell	16%	21%
I Sell Fitness	13%	20%	19%	25%	24%	29%	24.6%
Tuff Stuff Fitness			13%	20%	18%	20%	25.2%
Batl Performance					15%	21%	14.2%
Vesta Fitness							7.0%
Gorila Fitness			26%	35%
LUXIAOJUN Barbell					41%	57%
Dynamic Fitness & Strength					20%	23%
Crandall Fitness								31.90%
Elite FTS								71.28%
The Strength Co								52.30%
Freedom Fitness Equipment								8.00%