Wide Body Bench Review – Creative But Flawed – 2026

Last updated on January 5th, 2026 at 07:24 pm

When we talk about benches that take attachments, we are normally talking about a leg developer, maybe a leg roller for sit-ups, and if we are getting real crazy, maybe a preacher pad. But only the bold go so far out of that normal squad of attachments that it truly catches my eyes and makes me say “WOW”! The Wide Body Bench might be the most exciting bench in this realm since the original Ironmaster Super Bench launched well over a decade ago.

The Wide Body Bench skips the original trio of attachments and opts for a Chest/Shoulder Press, Chest Fly, and Bicep Curl Attachment along with its standard wide body attachments. This thing is creative, that is for sure. But can you really pack that much into a bench without sacrificing performance? And how will a bench from a no-name company stack up against the likes of REP Fitness, Rogue, and Bells of Steel? We’ve spent the past several months testing. So lets find out!

Transparency Note

The Wide Body Bench took home the top spot in my Review Pipeline voting through my newsletter at the tail end of 2024 alongside the Bells of Steel Buzzsaw. I decided to combine those two, amongst some others, for an Adjustable Bench w/ Attachments Showdown.

I bought the Wide Body Bench and all the attachments out of pocket, and they do not offer an affiliate link. You might notice that there are ZERO reviews from any other home gym content creators on this bench and system. This is why. But, I made a commitment that if YOU vote for it, I’d do my best to make it happen. I appreciate everyone who has used my other links and codes that allow me the budget to do things like this.

Wide Body Bench Overview

The Wide Body Bench was first designed as a way to do Floor Press movements without having to physically lay down on the floor. The idea being, that you could build that top end triceps strength for the bench press, in the actual position you would be in while benching. This should improve the specificity of the movement, meaning we have a greater carryover to a bigger bench.

The Wide Body Bench then expanded to include multiple additional attachments, all revolving around the upper body. Biceps Curls, Chest/Shoulder Press, and Chest Flys. This is a complete 180 compared to the typical leg developer and decline crunch attachments, which clearly earns the Wide Body Bench the most creative adjustable bench award.

Wide Body Bench Specs

• Brand: Wide Body
• Made In USA: No
• Padding: High-density foam and rubber
• Recommended Weight Capacity: 1000 Pounds
• Weight Capacity For Arm Pads: 500lbs
• Weight Capacity For Chest Press, Chest Fly, and Bicep Attachment: 360lbs (4 x 45lb plates per side)
• Dimensions: 47.55 X 11/8 X 17.05 inches
• Bench w/Pad Dimensions: 47.55 X 24.65 X 17.05 inches  
• Weight: 130 lbs
• Warranty: 1 Year On All Parts
• Return Window: 30 Days, customer covered shipping, and 10% restocking fee
• Frame Materials: Rectangular Mild Steel pipes (4″x2″) for the main frame
• Assembly: Depends on attachments… ~1 hour for bench, longer for each attachment

Wide Body Bench FAQ

Wide Body Bench Shipping & Assembly

The Wide Body Bench got delivered by XPO, a freight company. I got one box per “piece”, that was on a pallet, and wrapped up. One of the boxes was pretty banged up, looked like it might have had a forklift jammed into it. But we heavily inspected the packaging and had no damage to any of the actual important stuff. So that is a win for Wide Body. I’ve received smaller pieces, wrapped “more densely”, and had serious damage. So they found a good solution.

My daughter helped me unpack everything, and in her words “they used too much wrapping”. They individually bubble wrap and tape every single piece of the Wide Body Bench. Some pieces got wrapped multiple times. And anything with a pad got an extra cellophane wrap for good measure.

The good thing here is that this means nothing was going to get damaged, as previously mentioned. The bad thing, is that this significantly increases the assembly time. For the below bench pad, we had to take all of the bolts off of the bench underside, remove the plastic wrap, then put them all back on. You have to do this for every pad. The unwrapping of the bubble wrap and materials alone was probably close to an hour process.

Overall assembly for the Wide Body Bench was pretty straight forward. I was concerned at first that they only provide a blown out schematic and no step by step instructions in the box. I talked to the owner on Instragram, and they have assembly videos available. Probably would be good to have a QR code available for these on the instructions included inside the box. If I didn’t know, I wouldn’t have known, kind of thing. That said, everything MOSTLY went together without any real need to reference the instructions.

I did run into one issue though. The above picture was taken after assembling ONE of the attachments. This happened in some degree with every single piece of the bench, throughout the entire assembly process. This is soot from the welding process, that was left inside the various pieces. I had to shake and shimmy everything in an attempt to get as much out as possible.

This required a vacuum and a mop after, plus a good shower. Throughout the testing process you can hear some remaining soot in the pieces, which I’m sure is falling onto my floor. I’ve assembled a LOT of gym equipment over the years, and occasionally had a few metal pieces, a sharp edge, that kind of thing. But this was a first. I asked the owner if this was normal, and he said yes. So expect this with your purchase.

Wide Body Bench Build

The basic Wide Body Bench is going to have a lot of the same features you would expect from an adjustable bench. Ladder system for adjustments, wheels for mobility, incline-able front seat pad, handle for moving around the gym, you name it. But out the gate you can tell that this is a V1 of a bench that spent most of its time focused on the attachments, not on the bench itself.

For instance, there is no vertical storage. For me, in a home gym space, this is an absolute deal breaker. I can store 3 benches vertically in the same space that one bench lying down takes up. To be fair, even our friends at Prime Fitness did this with the Shorty Bench. But I think this is an absolute REQUIREMENT for most home gym owners. In fact, when I first shared this bench on r/HomeGym, some people said they wouldn’t even consider a bench that didn’t have vertical storage. I 100% agree.

We also had one of the bench end caps on the rear support post fall off. It now won’t go back on because it is plastic and cracked. The various bolts and nuts throughout are heavy duty, but fully exposed. And unfortunately, the way they are installed, leaves a lot of room for side to side play. When you compare this bench aesthetically to something like the REP Nighthawk, it is very clear why REP is called the king of benches.

The design of the frame is also a little different than standard. This doesn’t impact much, except if you happen to have something like a Bench Dock. The frame is too wide to fit inside the bench dock, which throws off a bit of the set-up, and of course means more likelihood for alignment issues when benching. If you don’t have a bench dock for your rack, no issues here.

Pad Gap

Over the last few years the pad gap debate has been an interesting one to follow. REP launched their Zero-Gap bench which everyone went bananas for, but then realized it was a pain to adjust and maybe a little overblown. Now more people are realizing that you don’t need a complete zero gap, you just need a small enough gap with a recessed bolt/enclosure, so that it doesn’t get in the way of proper set-up. You can also get around this by having the back pad be long enough that you can skip the seat entirely for flat bench.

The Wide Body Bench clocks in at 32 inches for the back support pad. The REP Nighthawk for comparison, is 36 inches, and is considered a smaller adjustable bench all around. At my 6ft frame, it is VERY close, but not quite long enough to accommodate my powerlifting set-up on the back pad by itself. I end up either with my head a little off the bench, or my butt right in the gap. This will obviously depend greatly on your own dimensions and set-up, so keep that in mind.

Vinyl and Firmness

The Wide Body Bench has the firmest bench pad I’ve ever felt, outside of my Thompson Fat Pad. I think this makes sense for the sake of benching heavy, which is exactly what we are talking about here. The vinyl sits somewhere between the Prime Shorty bench and the REP Nighthawk in terms of the grippiness. The Prime Shorty being a more typical commercial bench with slick vinyl and essentially no grip, and the Nighthawk having arguably the best grip on the market. The Wide Body Bench is enough in terms of grip that you aren’t likely to go anywhere on most exercises.

Angle Adjustments

The ladder system for the Wide Body Bench is flipped of what we see with most adjustable benches. Typically we have the grooves/notches on the bench itself, commonly with laser etched markings, and the pin is on the support post itself. For the Wide Body Bench, you have the notches on the support post. The beauty of a ladder system is how you can operate it with one hand, effortlessly. The Wide Body Bench ladder system doesn’t work like that. You have to on purpose hold the bench up, adjust the angle of the ladder with the other hand, and lay it down on the post as needed.

We also do not have any angle adjustment numbers on the Wide Body Bench. So you are going to need to guess, or measure and mark, what angle each notch is, for future reference. The Wide Body Bench ladder system is also entirely metal on metal. This has already resulted in scratches and dings over the course of the last few months.

The ladder system is unfortunately, all around, one of the worst systems I have used to date. I say one of, because it at the very least did not break. Once you get into the right spot, the ladder is (mostly) locked in and ready for work. It is just missing most of what is so nice about a ladder system that almost every other bench in my gym has.

The front seat adjusts with a pop-pin. I’m not a huge fan of systems that use different mechanisms to adjust. We have a ladder for the back, I’d like to see a ladder for the front. Having a pop-pin for one and ladder for the other, just creates a little more mental work in use. Again, we have no markings for the adjustments, but in use the pop-pin did what it was supposed to do, every time I used it. The angles are sufficient for the majority of work you would do. There is no decline, but that isn’t typically a huge need.

Mobility

The front post for the Wide Body Bench has a handle, and the adjustment for the front seat. The handle teeters back and forth, which I’m not entirely positive on the purpose of this. It feels like a “we forgot to add a handle” design decision. You never grab the handle from the insides of the bench, so having a handle that moves on you just proves to be annoying.

Since we are talking about mobility, the wheels are definitely undersized for such a large bench (130lbs), which creates a lot of drag and friction. Since you can’t store the bench vertically, you are going to be wheeling this bench around a lot. So you’ll get a daily reminder of how this needs bigger and smoother wheels.

The Attachment Post

The Wide Body Bench relies on the attachment post to function for all of the snazzy additions (which we’ll cover in a second). Since the bench, again, does not store vertically, wherever you store the bench, you have to be very careful to walk around it. I managed to give myself quite a few dings on the shins when trying to walk around it.

You might say “just leave the attachment on, duhh!” We’ll get into that later on as well.

Wide Body Bench Performance & Attachments

Home Gym owners aren’t likely going to own more than one bench. If they do, it would be a dedicated flat bench and a good adjustable bench. But that adjustable bench needs to do EVERYTHING in terms of accessory movements. So even if a bench gets as crazy as the Wide Body Bench does, it still needs to perform basic dumbbell movements and accessory exercises, as well as do what we expect from a bench in the year 2025 in a home gym.

So lets start off with how this bench performs as a basic adjustable bench in a garage gym without all the attachments.

Just A Bench

If we remove the pads on the side, we are able to use the Wide Body Bench for essentially anything we would use any other adjustable bench for. You will need to be conscious of the attachment arm posts, but otherwise, I was able to do dumbbell rows, dumbbell bench, prone rows, and everything else I wanted to do. Basic barbell bench worked as well. I worked up to a 300+lb barbell bench and had no concerns. The Wide Body Bench will be able to handle whatever you throw at it.

If you need an even more resounding confirmation of this, they collaborated with Irregular Strength, aka Julius Maddux. Julius has benched over 700lbs raw, and knows a thing or two about heavy benching. They are working through a dedicated pad design for the heaviest of benchers. If he is comfortable putting his name on a collab with Wide Body Bench, I don’t think you need this 350lb bencher to give you the green light. (Note – the collab is currently being finalized)

The only things you need to be really careful about, are using certain specialty bars and things where you use the side of the bench like Hip Thrusts. Since Hip Thrusts are done from the side of the bench, which is where the attachment port is, you just need to be conscious of this. I didn’t have any problems, but you could easily “dismount” and run into it.

When I used my Cambered Bench Bar, I got REALLY close to tapping the attachment post. I didn’t, so it gets a pass, but keep in mind that anything that extends your range of motion in a pressing type movement, might end up being difficult.

Wide Body Bench Attachment Arm

The Wide Body Bench attachment arm has grooves which allow the attachments to be added and “locked in”. This also gives you some creative liberties where you can adjust the angle of every attachment up or down in small increments. Want a 5 degree decline for that press? You got it! All of the attachments connect using the same arm, and then require a twist knob to lock it in place for safety purposes.

If you read/watched my Bulletproof Isolator review, you know I gave them kudos for the creativity, but struggled to find my rhythm with the machine because of having SO many options.

If you put on the Chest Press attachment on the left side, you now need to set it up on the right side at the exact same angle. Since there are no markings, no way to tell other than an eyeball test, you can go back and forth multiple times resetting it before you nail the right position.

And let’s say you want to do DB Floor Press with the Pad Arms, follow that up with Chest Press, and finish off chest with Chest Flys (the above took me 33 seconds just to get the pad arms off).

You would need to add the Pad Arms, get them even, then screw in the twist knob, then do your sets. Unscrew the twist knob, take off the arms, put on the chest press attachment, get them lined up, add the stability bar, screw that it on both sides, load it up with plates, then do your sets. Take all of that off, then put the Chest Fly attachment on, get them lined up, and screw them in, load it up with plates, and do your sets. Then when done, take it all apart and put it all away for storage.

That set-up time really impacts the flow of your workout. The more the set-up time eats into that flow, the more likely you are to skip something for an alternative. What I found with the Wide Body Bench, is that any day where I had a tight schedule, I just skipped using the attachments entirely and opted for something simple like DB Bench.

I also think a really simple quality of life fix would be to label the attachments Left and Right (or one is red the other is blue). There were a number of times I had to look at it, hook it up, then realize I had it wrong and switch sides. Simple changes can save you a lot of frustration in set-up.

Pad Arms

The pad arms are the stock attachments for the Wide Body Bench. Buy the bench, you get these, no matter what. The purpose is to give you a few options. First, the more obvious, are things like floor press. This is an exercise you can perform to build the lockout for bench press. It heavily trains the transition in the bench where the bar moves primarily from the chest, to the triceps, helping you build a common weak point and hopefully avoid a missed lift.

Because the pads can adjust, you can use this for flat, incline, or even overhead presses in this manner. You can also angle them out in different ways too, depending on your natural arm path. You can also get creative and use this pad for a number of other options. Things like incline DB Curls, flipping the pad to a 45 degree angle and standing behind the bench for preacher curls. This COULD mimic a Fat Pad as well, but also give you the potential ability for smaller athletes (or for those that prefer a thinner pad for DB work) to avoid that extra girth.

Pad Arms Performance

I used the Pad Arms for a number of different variations. They all worked exactly as intended. You cut the range of motion, and give a dead-stop option for pressing, whether you want incline, flat, or overhead variations. If this is something you want in your life, the Wide Body Bench nailed it.

I think it is the bodybuilder in me that requires full range of motion. I just couldn’t quite get this feature to click. Like, I understand it. I just didn’t enjoy it. And I feel like if I needed this dead-stop concept to play a bigger role in my pressing work, I could come up with a handful of different solutions that wouldn’t require owning a dedicated bench to do it.

The pads are also not very stable in a number of ways. We have a lot of angle adjustments which are great, but this introduces a lot of side to side play, even when “locked in”. The good news is, this is entirely not present when in use. I had a similar experience with my Hyper Pro, there is wiggle and movement during set-up, that disappears as soon as you are ready to go. They have videos of guys smashing 315lb overhead press sets on the Wide Body Bench using the pads without any issues. So if you are worried about the stability here, you probably don’t need to be.

Going into this, this was the attachment I was the least excited for, so I’m not really holding my lack luster interest in it against the Wide Body Bench. This works as intended, does what it is supposed to do, is ready for whatever you have to throw at it, and the minor gripes I have disappear when it actually matters. You just need to determine if this is a solution you NEED in your training or not.

Chest Press

The Chest Press was the first attachment that really caught my eye. I saw it and immediately thought that it might be my Powertec Levergym but built into a bench. The system again connects into the attachment arms, where you have one arm per side, then for stability purposes you add on a back post.

Because the bench and attachment can be angled in a number of orientations, you can take this from flat, through incline, into shoulder press. Which is honestly pretty insane for a bench to do. The Chest Press comes with a stability bar, and for extra stability in the overhead press position, you need an additional piece that locks the ladder down and into position (keep this in mind as we proceed).

The attachment can handle 4x45lb plates PER side, which should be enough for most people. I bench in the 300+lb range, and my working sets got up to 2x45lb plates per side. So even on my best day and some low rep sets, I’m not exceeding that weight limit anytime soon.

The weight posts are a polished chrome with plastic end cap, and the arms pivot on an actual bearing system, not on bolts. In use, this was extremely smooth. I didn’t have any point in the movements where it felt like it snagged or slowed down. And because of the chrome posts and rubber stoppers, everything looks just like it did on day one.

The bearings are legit something I rarely see in home gym equipment builds, and I think is a great choice. The handles are the grippy rubber you’d find on something like a Hammer Strength chest press. And you even have a pop-pin system to adjust the starting position height of the handles. Honestly, every piece of this out the box is really well put together.

Chest Press Performance

The Wide Body Bench is fairly stable in use, but INCREDIBLY unstable otherwise. So much so that you have to add an extra stability bar for the Chest Press Attachment (adding to the set up time), and you need an additional piece for anything overhead. Even then, you can see how much the bench rocks back and forth just unloading it in the above picture.

In the name of saving time, I tried to skip the extra stability pieces and just roll with it. Bad idea! You can see how much the bench teeters in the fully incline position, and then it completely bails on me. So you absolutely have to add these pieces to your set up process. The way the stability bar installs on the Chest Press Attachment also leaves marks. So you are going to scuff the powder coat over time.

Not Wide Enough

For a bench called the Wide Body Bench, it was awkward feeling like it wasn’t wide enough, but that was problem number one. The handles are VERY close. For me to even get into the machine, my lats run into them, so I have to squeeze in sideways. Once in, the handles are so close that I’m not able to grab them in any position other than the absolute widest hand placement possible. Even that isn’t where I would naturally place my hands, but it technically got the job done. It feels like a close grip, tight and tucked powerlifting press, than a more elbows flared bodybuilder press.

Unfortunately, having your hands that wide means that you run into the support brackets for the arms. So now I either grab the handles in a VERY close grip manner, or deal with running into some metal posts. No matter what position this bench is in, from flat to overhead, this is an issue I ran into.

Not Long Enough

The arms on the Chest Press seem to be too short to do what we want. If we get a stretch at the bottom, we run out of room at the top to finish the press. We can’t accommodate a full arching path like a typical bench press machine. If we adjusted it and removed the stretch, we ran into another problem. Because the arms are so short, it is VERY easy to press them too far, get up overhead, where there is no stopper, and have it fall backward.

This too short issue was common throughout the testing. It was an ongoing struggle to find the right angle for the bench, the right angle to attach the Chest Press Attachments, the right pop-pin setting, and then make adjustments to how we sat on the bench.

My first use had me questioning if I had set something up wrong entirely. After tinkering for awhile, I tapped out. I took a few days and tested it with my wife, a neighbor of mine who owns a home gym, and then my buddy who comes over a few days a week to lift. None of us could figure out the right combination of adjustments and settings to make this work correctly. I messaged on Instagram with another owner, and he had the same issues I did.

A Solution… Kind of

I sent some IG messages to the owner and one thing he mentioned was “…scootching down a bit”. I spent a good hour (this was my fourth or fifth time trying to get this to work) tinkering with the pop-pins, the angles, and finally adding that last cue to scootch down into the seat.

In the above clips, the left side is me scooching down into the position required to get the right motion path. I can’t angle the seat at all and have to leave it flat for this to work. On the right is me schootching back into my more normal placement on the bench. You can see that I can’t finish the rep as the arms just run out of room.

This adjustment technically works, but is definitely uncomfortable and not something I would want to do regularly. I still had the problems with the handles not being wide enough and the instability problems. But I was able to get in a workout finally that felt like something kind of like what it was intended to be.

Too Many Things

I think the Chest Press Attachment is just trying to do too many things. If you look at the build of a commercial Flat Chest Press Machine, Upright Chest Press Machine, and Overhead Press Machine (left to right above), they have drastically different builds. The lever arms are different lengths, the weights are loaded at different positions for the proper strength curve, the seats are positioned differently, the handles are in different starting positions, the starting positions of the movement are different, sometimes the seat is adjustable up and down (and sometimes it isn’t), amongst a myriad of other design choices that are specifically designed to execute that ONE lift perfectly.

And to be fair to the Wide Body Bench, even some commercial machines aren’t anywhere near perfect. You commonly see bodybuilders making adjustments with various pins and pads. Some hardcore owners weld and cut and adjust machines as well. So this isn’t a glaring oversight, just an issue with trying to fit a fixed motion path to a wide audience’s bio-mechanical make-up. Even if we matched up on height and weight, my limb lengths, upper body width, and torso length probably vary compared to yours.

This is one of the issues that Jammer Arms have faced since they first hit the scene. A jack of all trades, master of none, doesn’t work well in the gym, at least not in a machine. Even my Powertec Levergym had to have a bench that adjusts up and down AND forward and back to be able to get into the right position. When I traded out benches you instantly lost a lot of functionality for the leverage system. And that is with lever arms that are easily double the length of the Wide Body Attachment and built into a machine that is weighed down by hundreds of pounds and a very wide base.

So you need to be a specific build for this to work, in terms of how wide you are, your torso length, limb length, and more. Otherwise it you are likely going to make some big adjustments to get in a very “ok” workout. If you check the Wide Body Bench Instagram, they have clips of people using the stuff effectively. So it is possible that you’ll be the perfect build and love it. For me, and the people who joined me in my gym, this was a classic Goldilocks situation of never being “just right”.

The Correct Way To Use The Chest Press Attachment

When I chatted further with the owner of Wide Body Bench, he sent me the following clip. This is the way you need to perform the Chest Press to get it to work correctly. You can see that he isn’t locking out his arms at all, and attempting to “keep it all in the muscle”. This cleans up a few of the issues I had like the range of motion limiter piece and the motion path.

So the design choices for the lever arms, in terms of their length, their size, the motion path, everything, was built on purpose this way. While I don’t personally agree that this is the preferred method for hypertrophy or strength training results, YOU might. So the decision, as always, comes down to your own preferred methods. The Chest Press Attachment was not a winner in my space, but might be the perfect solution in yours.

Chest Fly

I ALMOST didn’t buy the Chest Fly, because fly movements have never been my go-to. As someone who has struggled to use his chest effectively, they tend to turn into a shoulder and biceps exercise instead of a chest exercise. BUT, I knew I couldn’t leave out one of the three attachments and truly put this to the test.

Once again, we connect into the same attachment port, and we again have a very well thought through design in terms of the features. Handles, bearings, stoppers, weight posts, you name it. This looks like a commercial gym chest fly that you might get from Arsenal.

The thing that had me really excited with this one, is that we can again adjust the angles of the bench. So not only do we get a flat fly, we get an incline fly. This simply means we get more use for the same attachment.

Chest Fly Performance

By a wide margin, this was the best performing attachment on the entire bench. I ran this one with myself and a few buddies and we really enjoyed it. It is far from perfect, but if every attachment performed like this one, I would have a much different opinion about the Wide Body Bench overall.

The range of motion was fantastic. That nice deep stretch in the pecs, even with low weights, was exactly what you want from a machine. You want that LOCKED IN feeling, but the perfect range of motion and path. I was rocking 20lbs per side for these and it was perfect, so no concerns about weight limits.

The handles have rubber grips on them, and they need to change this. They rotate in your hands, and create a lot of instability. We probably need handles that rotate, but they should likely be some lightly knurled rotating handles, almost like a quality D-Handle cable attachment, not some squishy rubber handle that attempts to slide off entirely.

This attachment also, unfortunately, doesn’t work well in the flat position. The rubber stoppers run into the ground, which of course isn’t ideal. This actually plays into one other key issue when the bench is angled. When you start, the rubber stoppers need to be perfectly aligned behind the bench. This is fairly easy to accommodate. But when you finish your set, it has to do the same thing. You need to have the two sides touch, otherwise they can swing completely free. We seem to be missing some kind of range limiter on the back end to keep this under control.

The Chest Fly attachment doesn’t deal with the same instability issues, largely because you aren’t loading as much weight. Since you only have one angle that this works in, we have fewer abilities for the bench to wobble, shake, or fall over. My buddy who used this is a few inches shorter than me, and we both found this to work well. My wife tinkered with it as well and it worked. So I think this manages to avoid the majority of the issues I had with the Chest Press Attachment.

The best of the best in this category is the Arsenal Reloaded Incline Fly. You can see that they have rotating knurled handles, and they have the range limiter on the back. Otherwise, these are pretty dang close in terms of design. Overall, the Chest Fly is a really solid attachment. It could use a few tweaks, and it is a VERY one trick pony, but it works as advertised for all shapes and sizes.

Bicep Attachment

If we are ranking attachments by my curiosity, the Bicep Attachment takes second place to the Chest Press. I never liked the Bicep Curl for the Levergym. It was wobbly and poorly executed. Which sucks, because machine curls were always my FAVORITE in the commercial gym. Particularly plate loaded. So this attachment for the Wide Body Bench had me grinning from ear to ear from the moment I ordered it.

Again we have bearings, nice weight posts, handles, and everything LOOKS like it is done well. Which is a promising start.

Bicep Attachment Performance

The Biceps Attachment has a very weird motion path to it. Normally I would lock my elbow in place, and then SQUEEZE the Biceps to bring my hand up towards the shoulder in an arch pattern (what you see on the right above). This attachment seems to run out of room in that arch, and force me to finish the rep by curling straight up. This is due to the awkward elbow joint near the weights that doesn’t quite seem to have enough range. Where the other attachments need a range of motion limiter, this one needs MORE flexibility in the motion path.

Much like the Chest Press, I had to take multiple runs at this to find the right settings, angles, and sitting arrangement to make it serviceable. I was constantly either limited on the contraction or the stretch, or the elbow piece would lock up on me.

I also found that the handles on the Bicep Attachment were similar to the Chest Press in a couple ways. Once again we have the rubber handles that slip and slide in your hands, which is less than ideal. And on top of that, the handles commonly rubbed on my thighs (not wide enough).

I did eventually manage to get a decent workout in with this after a number of iterations, but it required me to again scooch down in the seat, adjust my hands, and you can probably see that my grip above is almost off of the handle entirely to avoid hitting my leg.

The problem here is that in a home gym, biceps exercises are bountiful. You have a dozen different options with just a set of dumbbells and a curl bar, let alone if you go my route of collecting a ton of cable attachments. I could change exercises every week and not run out over the course of a year.

I can grab a cable attachment and be curling in a matter of seconds. And when I look at the other benches, they almost all have a Preacher Curl attachment, or you could snag an AbMat Preacher Pad. So a curling attachment isn’t super unique. With the Wide Body Bench set-up, the modifications I have to make to get into the right position, and the un-natural motion path, I’d take almost any other option I have at my disposal before I’d set this up regularly.

Oddly enough, I actually tested a few biceps exercises using the Arm Pads. The incline DB Curls were similar to what you get with the Prime Shorty Side Pads. The standing preacher curl from behind the bench was OK, and something you can essentially get from MOST benches with some adjustments. But the prone DB Curl was almost exactly like the Prime Shorty Preacher Pad, the only thing missing was the rack for the dumbbells/curl bar.

And even better than the Prime solution, this was done with the same attachment instead of two, which comes with the bench instead of being two additional add-ons. And since we have a near infinite amount of angle adjustments, you can REALLY lock in however you want that to work. I would take the pad arms and some creative dumbbell work over the Biceps Attachment for sure. That prone DB curl might be the best bicep bench attachment solution I’ve used so far. Simple, but effective.

One More Thing To Consider For The Attachments

We’ve covered the use of the attachments, which is, less than ideal. But there is one more big piece to consider. And that is storage. If you manage to fit into the group where all of the attachments fit your body type perfectly, you are still going to need to find a place for them to live when not in use.

The pads are pretty easy, as they could fit just about anywhere. But the Chest Press, Chest Fly, and Bicep Attachments are going to take up a lot of space. Each of them has handles, weight posts, and various bends and metal to account for.

They make a dedicated attachment rack. The attachments hook on multiple sides of the storage rack, and it has no wheels. Meaning you need easy access to all sides, and can’t simply place it in a corner and wheel it out when you are ready to use it.

There are no actual dimensions on the website for the Attachment Holder, but by the time you have this set-up and the bench set aside (remember, no vertical storage), you have made a pretty serious commitment to space in your gym. At that point, it is competing with FAR better items like the Powertec Levergym. In fact, the Levergym with their bench comes in at almost the same price, and would give you a cable system as well.

Should You Buy The Wide Body Bench?

From the moment I unboxed it with the soot, to today when writing this review, the Wide Body Bench just never seemed to wow me beyond what I saw on Instagram. I was so excited to have this, even wanting to combine with my VOLTRAs and other toys. But I never did that, because I struggled to make even the basic functions work correctly.

No vertical storage on the bench. Lack of basic industry standard elements. Pieces that fell off in normal use. Excessive set-up time for all attachments. Poor performance for all but one attachment. The need to store all of it. The fact that it requires you to own another bench for basic exercises. And the fact that the bench by itself is $600, and the attachments will run you another $800+ after shipping and taxes, and I just can’t recommend the Wide Body Bench for anyone in a home gym environment.

Taking a glance at their Instagram, and you can see people lifting at home with this bench effectively. So maybe my issues were mostly around my shape, my frame, and my environment. You can also see that a number of their customers are actually commercial gyms. They skip the attachments and stick with the rotating pads for unique options for dumbbell work. In a commercial gym you don’t need vertical storage either. And without all the other attachments, this thing functions just like any other adjustable bench for basic dumbbell work. So I can see where this might work for some audiences. But for me and my people, in my gym, it just didn’t.

But Wait…

They are currently working on a Version 2 of the bench, aimed at addressing the stability issues of the V1 by means of having two hydraulic lift features that replace the ladder adjustment. It adjusts with a simple pull pin from the back end, and has angle adjustment markings too. This will (hopefully) remove the need for the extra stability pieces for the attachments. The attachment system seems to be re-worked from the ground up as well. We have a new front handle design, rear wheel design, the pad now appears to feature the more standard grippy vinyl, literally everything has been rebuilt and redesigned.

They are also working on releasing their rack attachment option. This would let you connect the attachments directly to a power rack, instead of the bench. That potentially allows you to skip the bench and just snag the attachments, or create some more adjustments to where the attachments actually get set up.

So the combination of the V2 bench and the rack attachment MIGHT just solve the vast majority of the issues I had with the original Wide Body Bench. My only immediate concerns would be around price & size.

The Wide Body Bench is already costly, beefing it up and improving every aspect can’t possibly be cheaper. If this bench creeps even closer to the $1k mark without any attachments, it is going to price itself out of the discussion. Add in a several hundred dollar rack attachment piece, and you could be out well over $2k for the entire kit.

The current bench already weighs 130lbs. This new design looks like it could weigh double that. That is a really difficult decision for a home gym with multiple athletes. One of the biggest selling points of a bench like the REP Nighthawk is that it can be moved around by nearly anyone.

We shall see when they finish the design and release final specs and details.

Other Options On The Market

Buy THIS Adjustable Bench For Your Home Gym In 2025

If you are considering going a different route, or just want to see what else is out there, I have a full article dedicated to my experiences with adjustable benches. I cover a wide FAQ list of bench items, and walk through an S-Tier to F-Tier list of how I would look at and buy an adjustable bench for my own home gym.

Wrap Up

I bought the Wide Body Bench because I was really excited to test it and give it a whirl. I unfortunately was met with a lot of poor experiences. The owner is a really helpful dude, working by himself, to make something cool. Which I want to support. But I just can’t recommend the bench in it’s current form.

But the future for the Wide Body Bench looks promising. I got a comment on r/HomeGym that really got me in the right brain space here. It was along the lines of… REP is the king of benches, but they have been redesigning and perfecting them for the better part of a decade. They currently offer 6 adjustable benches, while Wide Body is on V1. Give them a decade and a half dozen bench revisions and lets see what happens.

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