MAG Grip Cable Attachments Comprehensive Guide – 2025

Last updated on March 12th, 2025 at 05:47 pm

There are a few pieces in my gym that kind of “define” me as Gray Matter Lifting. One of those is without a doubt the MAG Grip Cable Attachments. Adorning the Wall Control board front and center, they are one of the first pieces people notice when they enter my gym. And when people recognize me online they say “I bought those because of your review!”.

I wasn’t the first to like these by any means. Bodybuilders in hardcore gyms around the world have been loving these for over a decade, and some of my initial influences in the home gym community had some great things to say about the MAG Grips.

But after close to a decade owning the MAG Grips, I own every cable attachment they make, have used them for thousands of reps, countless sets, and even used them for some unconventional purposes. I hope with this comprehensive guide I can continue to shine the light on the Maximum Advantage Grip, aka MAG Grip Cable Attachments, cover some comparisons in the market, some things I’ve learned along the way, and ultimately help YOU make a good decision for your own home gym.

Transparency Note

I purchased out of my own pocket about half of the MAGs I own today. I did my first review, wrote the first iteration of this guide, and produced multiple videos on MAGs before I ever even talked to the team. Today they have sent me a few attachments for free to complete my collection, have had me produce a few promo videos, take some pictures, and they have sponsored some of my giveaways.

I do not have an affiliate link with them, and they have never paid me for anything. If you buy MAG grips with my links, I get nothing for it. I’m just here today sharing one of my favorite pieces of equipment with you, in hopes that you have the same phenomenal results I have had over the years.

Quick Shopping List

Just want to snag a few MAG Grips and be on your way?

💲MAG Medium Grip Supinate – This is my favorite MAG Grip by a wide margin. Check it out here.

💲MAG Close Grip Supinate – The second most used MAG Grip in our gym (by me, my wife, and my daughter). Check it out here.

💲MAG Medium Grip Pronate– The Plan B to my favorite. Check it out here.

MAG Grip Reviews

If you haven’t checked out my original reviews, here is your introduction. This will cover a big chunk of what the MAG Grip Cable Attachments are, what I like, don’t like, and everything else.

Other MAG Grip Cable Attachments Reviews

Key note from him on the Wide is to pay attention to your bone structure. I think the Wide is great for bigger athletes, my wife NEVER uses it. Too wide! So this is a good tip.

This is a LONG video, but this dude has a LOT of the same realizations, experiences, and excitement for the MAGs that I did, and still do today. He mentions using the bars, retracting back, and feeling your back crack. I get this even today. My upper back feels fantastic, moves better, and is better built, thanks to the MAGs. Weirdly enough, this is this dudes most recent upload, all the way back in 2017. Maybe after using the MAGs he gave up on searching for anything better in life?

MAG Three Quarter Grip

The 3/4 Grip released well after my initial write-up and review of the MAG Grips. But, it is more or less “another MAG Grip”. Same paddle handle design, same curvature, same overall build and construction. This one simply fills a gap between the Medium and Wide options for smaller athletes looking for a somewhat more “traditional” pulldown experience that still benefits from the paddle handles. I’ll discuss this more in the recommendations section of this article in terms of how this should impact what handles you buy.

MAG Palm Press

In early 2025, MAG released their newest cable attachment, the Palm Press. I was lucky enough to receive the second one in the wild for testing and feedback, as well as to take some pics and clips for the team.

The MAG Palm Press serves a couple functions. First, like its cousins, is that it can be used for back work. You can perform straight arm pulldown variations with this leveraging the knubs and wide palm placement. Unique to the Palm Press, is triceps variations. You can do triceps extensions (normal and overhead) as well as triceps pushdowns.

How does it stack up against other cable attachments?

I didn’t have the same WOW factor with the Palm Press that I did (and still do) with the original MAGs. It is a good cable attachment, I just don’t have something pulling me back to it over and over and over. The triceps extension movements with this are very “ok” in my book. If this was your only option, you’d be good to go. But there are definitely better cable attachments for that purpose. The handle doesn’t have as good of a grip, and is limited in some range of motion factors due to the shape that I believe make it inferior.

The MAG Palm Press is currently in regular rotation for Triceps Pushdowns though. This has become a staple in my triceps routine, jumping back and forth between the Palm Press and my TK Start Larry Scott Bar. The flat and wide base, along with the thumb nubs, seem to provide a really solid pressing platform for the triceps. You will need some time to find the right angles to maximize your pressing abilities here, but this is a nice one.

The straight arm pulldowns are an exercise that is regularly included when I tend to stray a little more towards the bro-splits and bodybuilding workouts, but falls off when I’m in my powerbuilder routines. When keeping this movement in, the MAG Palm Press is a strong contender along with my Mutant Metals ARC for the best attachment for that purpose.

I’m also very happy that the team included not only a storage hook so the Palm Press could lay flat on a wall, but also included a larger ring for carabiners. The same finish and robust build went into the Palm Press as the other MAGs, so this thing is sure to be around for a long time.

MAG Grip FAQs

MAG Grips vs The Competition

MAG Grips were the first to develop the concept of the “paddle handle”. This idea has since been taken by a number of a copy-cat companies. They even white label these now so companies can simply slap their logo on them and sell them.

I wrapped up this video at the tail end of 2023 comparing the MAG Grips vs the Prime RO-T8s vs the Knock Offs.

MAG Grips vs Prime Fitness RO-T8 Collection

Prime Fitness launched the 4N1 and 3N1 options shortly after I bought my MAG Grip Cable Attachments. There is a LOT to unpack in these as 3 different handles means 10 different options.

Keep in mind that Prime Fitness is a fairly small family run company as well, with Made in the USA products and a focus on high quality. So their offerings are from “cheap knock-offs”.

If you aren’t up to speed on the Prime handles, they are essentially a MAG Grip where the grips themselves can rotate. So, you take the close grip and the handles can be placed in the pronated, supinated, or neutral positions. Same for the medium, and then the wide adds an extra parallel grip to bring it to 4 options.

Prime vs MAG On Sizing

The comparisons on sizes are a little difficult to line up 1 to 1, but let’s try and get close. The close MAG Grip is listed at 5″ with the close grip Prime at 6″. So these line up pretty close.

The widest Prime handle, the 4N1, is listed at 20″ wide, with the MAG Mediums clocking in at 22″. The Medium Prime 3N1 is listed at 14″, which fits right between the medium and close grip of the MAGs.

The 14″ is a weird size for the Prime. I find the MAG Mediums to be PERFECT, so making it slightly smaller is going in the wrong direction. Even for my wife, the medium MAGs are the go to handles. So I’m not giving Prime any huge win for their in-between size here. And their cable selection leaves out the wide ranges entirely.

So the Close Grip handles from MAG and Prime are comparable, the Wide Prime’s are really more comparable to the Medium MAGs, and the Wide MAG and the Medium Prime have no real comparison. Try to keep this in mind as we go.

Prime vs MAG On Price

The Prime 4N1 adds up to the EXACT price of buying the three MAG Mediums. You technically get one extra angle, but the prices align.

The Prime Close 3n1 is about $15 cheaper than the 3 MAGs. Ideally, you’d get some kind of dollar savings for buying only ONE attachment opposed to three. Which would make this discussion a little more nuanced. But since we don’t, we need to look at the overall performance and some others factors.

Keep in mind that prize is also based on use. If you buy a cable attachment that does 4 things but only use it for 2, you aren’t getting the full value from it. Considering I would put the Close Grip Pronate and Neutral MAG at the bottom of the list, buying something like the Prime 3n1 Close might get you 3 angles and you only use 1. Making it a poor investment. Make sure to read further below on my recommendations so you can think about your own use and make the right decision.

Primes Win On Size

The Primes definitely win from a space saving perspective. I can fit the entire Prime lineup in the space just half of the MAG handles I recommend take up. More free space means more room for OTHER toys. In that same regard, if you plan to travel with them to a commercial gym, that is a clear win.

So if you need to save space on your wall, or take a cable attachment to the gym in your gym bag, the PRIME 4n1 is probably my recommendation.

Prime Fitness 3n1 vs MAG Grips in Use

The Primes, in use, do offer a LITTLE more ROM due to how the handles work. But we are talking a half inch or so. I’m not the biggest fan of the adjustment for the angles though. My wife straight up skips these because it is an extra step. When I have demoed them to people, it is always a little finicky to get the adjustment right as the entire thing is manual. We don’t have super clean pop-pins or adjustments.

Another thing to note is that for the PRIMEs to function the way that they do, the paddle handles have to simply flip/rotate from pronate, to neutral, to supinated. You can see in the pictures above that the angles of the handles on the MAGs and the Primes differ pretty greatly.

Take a look at the MAGs below, and you’ll instantly see that they aren’t just flipped.

See how between the pronate and supinate, the handles change pretty drastically? They aren’t just a mirror image of each other. That is what makes the MAGs very unique in their function, and why you can’t simply flip one around and get a second handle.

Each handle is purposefully built for that exact single movement. Not a jack of all trades, master of none approach.

MAG Grips vs Knock Off MAGs

There is a common recommendation from people to simply buy the “knock off” MAG Grips, because they are basically the same thing and way cheaper. As someone who has owned the MAG Grip Cable Attachments and studied their differences for years, the above recommendation honestly frustrates me.

Take a look at the Knock-offs. You have a Wide, two mediums, and two close grip. The Wide and two Mediums are essentially all neutral grips. And the close grips are both pronated (kind of?). So they managed to remake the least effective Close Grip handles, make two of the exact same handles in the mediums, and then a neutral wide which would make a Wide Grip feel even wider.

This is what happens when someone who doesn’t understand the nuances of a piece of equipment, copies it and resells it. Read through online reviews and you’ll frequently see that the hooks tear off of the rubber. Multiple users have complained about the smell. And overall they are just, not the same thing.

I ordered a set at the end of 2023 and my experiences were bad. I didn’t have a bad smell, but one of my handles was BENT out of the package. I’m pretty sure I could run over my MAG Grips with my truck and not bend them. The o-rings on the handles were already falling off, and the rubber adhesive was horribly applied. I could pick it off with a finger nail. Compare this to my MAGs that have seen THOUSANDS of sets and reps over the years and look brand new, and I just don’t think you can say “they are basically the same thing”.

I get trying to save some money (more on that in a second), but I just can not recommend the knock-offs any less. You are getting 3 handles for the $120, which is only slightly better than the price you’d pay for a couple of MAG Grips. Are they better than nothing? Sure. Are they better than a traditional lat bar? Maybe. But do yourself a favor and don’t go down this route. These don’t even deserve the name “Knock Off MAGs”.

I’ve yet to find anyone who has owned both, trains with a bodybuilder mindset, and prefers the Knock-Offs.

MAG Grip Cable Attachments are American Made from a Small Family Shop. Buy the real deal.

The Other Knock-Offs

Since originally posting this, a new company has launched some cable attachments on Amazon that look a LOT closer to the original MAG Grips (from what I can see). The entire set varies in price but has sat around $150 for awhile. If you absolutely have to buy the knock-offs, at least go this route.

I can still see a few variances, like the mediums don’t seem to be the same 3 different angles. But this is at least getting CLOSER to being a legit substitute. BLUSM seems to have a business model of copying quality products and reselling at a low price on Amazon. This isn’t the kind of company I typically support, but I do understand if you need to go this route for sake of your budget.

MAG Grips vs Back Widow, Kleva Built Atlas, and U-Clips Back Bar

The Back Widow and U-Clips Back Bar do a LOT in one package which can be a sweet piece for the dude traveling to a commercial gym or who might only occasionally use a cable machine. You’ll have a ton of options for cable work, landmine work, and more and take up no extra space. And the Kleva Built Atlas is absolutely beautiful, like everything Kleva makes, and again slaps onto the landmine easily.

Where both of these go wrong in my opinion, is related to a comment I dropped on Adam at Garage Gym Lab when he discussed the Atlas.

My Cable Attachment Soap Box

For me, cable attachments are one of the items in a garage gym we likely don’t have to sacrifice due to space constraints. I can’t have the best of the best of every machine. I have to make compromises in various knickknacks here and there to accomplish some accessories for the sake of space.

But cable attachments? I can 100% have the BEST of the best in terms of fit and function and own a huge assortment of pieces with a solid storage option. Kleva’s Atlas attachment looks beautiful. The quality might be up there with the likes of Black Iron and other premium manufacturers. But a big bulky piece that at the end of the day gives me 3 neutral row/pulldown options is just… meh.

And considering we have multiple options to take the best cable attachments and use them with a landmine (more on that in a second), I’m also just not too stoked on this one. Again, gorgeous piece, everything they make is just phenomenal in the design. But I’m buying a round of MAG Grips before this every single time.

I see no reality where I own these multi-use pieces and decide to use them over my MAGs.

So… if you are traveling to a commercial gym and need to accomplish 5 different things with one piece of equipment, I get it. But otherwise? The Atlas and the Back Widow each cost $300! If you bought all 5 of the MAG Grips I recommend, you’d only be out ~$330. I just honestly don’t see a world where these make sense for the home gym athlete.

What MAG Grip Cable Attachments Should I Buy?

Take a scroll through my MAG Grip Cable Attachments Review video comments and you’ll see a laundry list of comments like these:

If you are this far and still with me, you probably don’t need to be convinced that you should own some MAG Grip attachments. The final piece is simply, which ones? The NUMBER ONE question I get asked is what MAG Grip Cable Attachments to buy. I’m going to try and lay out a bunch of situations and my recommendations so hopefully you know which ones to buy in your own situation, as every home gym is a little different.

Should I Sell My Prime Fitness RO-T8s for MAG Grips?

If you currently own any of the MAG Grips or Prime attachments, don’t run out and sell them. I don’t think there is SUCH a huge difference that I’d go to that extreme. Both are good sets of attachments and unless you are a junky, you won’t notice the difference until you have them side by side.

I’ll even say that if you have the knock-offs already and are happy with them, I’d just sit with those. The MAG Grips are better in every way in my experience, but if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

If you prefer one brand over the other, find one used locally, or one is more difficult to get than the other based on shipping, your country of origin, etc. buy the ones you want. You’ll be happy no matter what. But here goes my recommendations.

I only want one MAG, what do I buy?

Medium Supinate. It is the most used attachment in my gym by a long shot. Big enough for the big boys, small enough for smaller athletes. The supinated grip is FIRE for the lats and gives a fantastic contraction, and since most people need more lats in their life, that is a good thing. It works great for pulldowns and seated rows. It could be rotated around and used as a pronate option in a pinch for a little landmine work and other experiments.

If you absolutely need the space saving aspect of the Prime RO-T8 lineup, you could go with the Prime 4n1. The Prime 4n1 isn’t my FAVORITE cable attachment, but it does the job well enough. And you get 4 options built into one attachment. The MAG Medium Supinate is the superior cable attachment, but I can give a little for the sake of portability for the traveling gym goer.

I want to buy two, which ones?

If you want to do pulldowns, low rows, and T-Bar style landmine rows, I’d go with the Medium Supinate and Medium Pronate. The Medium Pronate is BOMB for the T-Bar work, and solid for pulldowns, and can easily be mixed in for seated rows as well.

If you don’t plan to do T-Bar work, I’d snag the Close Grip Supinate and the Medium Supinate. The close grip is a very unique pulldown attachment. It almost feels like a DB pullover. Just a really gnarly and unique stretch and contraction for the lats. The close grip supinate is also the go-to for my smaller athletes like my daughter and her soccer friends. The medium again is the king in my opinion. So for PURE cable work, those are my two go-tos.

I Want To Buy Three Attachments, which ones?

I would lean towards the Close Grip Supinate, the Medium Supinate, and then choose between the Medium Pronate, the Three Quarter Grip or the Wide. If you want to do T-Bar Rows, you need to drop the Wide or Three Quarter for the Medium Pronate. If you are a larger athlete (think 6ft+) then the Wide is very unique but is in my opinion almost exclusively a pulldown attachment. The Three Quarter Grip is also a pulldown only option, and is more suited for athletes in the 5’6″ to 6′ category. My money is on the Close and two Mediums personally, but the wide and 3/4 are valid options.

What Would Joe Buy Today If He Was Starting From Scratch?

If you are starting from scratch and aiming to build a full collection without any overlap… This is what I would do. I will clarify, this recommendation has changed over the years based on what I actually use, but as of right now, this is my recommendation.

• MAG Close Grip Supinate
• MAG Medium Supinate
• MAG Medium Pronate
• MAG Medium Neutral
• MAG Three Quarter Grip
• MAG Wide
• MAG Palm Press

The Close Grip Supinate is the most commonly recommended attachment of the three close attachments from anyone I’ve ever talked to. We almost exclusively use the Close Grip Neutral and Pronate with other pieces in our gym.

They make VERY few appearances in our actual cable work. They aren’t BAD cable attachments, but you only have so many variations you can fit into a workout program. With the Close Grip Supinate being SO GOOD, the other two simply pale in comparison. Where the Close Grip Supinate gives you a fantastic stretch and plenty of room to finish the movement, the other two feel cramped, lacking in stretch, and lacking in range of motion.

The mediums are all awesome and I wouldn’t even begin to hesitate recommending you snag the Medium Supinate, Medium Pronate, and Medium Neutral. These are my personal go-to big 3 for back day specifically for seated rows. I rotate through them every training block.

The Wide is a unique feel. For smaller athletes I think it’s objectively TOO wide. Which is exactly why they made their newest offering, which is smack dab in the middle of the mediums and the wide. It has a slightly pronated grip.

My wife likes neither of them, and they are FAR too wide for my daughter. But I really like using these in a unique pulldown workout where I go from Wide, to 3/4, to Medium, to Close in a 4 set pulldown workout.

If you are a bigger dude like me, both the Wide and 3/4 will see some use. If you are smaller, start with the mediums and see if you feel like you are missing something. If not, let it ride. If so, grab the 3/4.

If you have multiple athletes in your gym, or just want to play it safe, grab both.

And of course, adding in the Palm Press is going to open up those straight arm pulldowns. You can TECHNICALLY do these with the original MAGs, but this is far better.

I WANT THEM ALL

If you absolutely need to leave no stone left unturned, snag every option they offer and go ahead and add the Prime 3n1 14″ Medium Handle.

The Prime Medium TECHNICALLY fits right between the Close and Medium MAGs, so I think that would give you just an absurd array of offerings. This is going to be an insanely comprehensive assortment of back attachments that you probably will never get through in an entire year of training.

You will be able to hit every angle, width, and option for rows, pull-downs, landmine work, pull-ups, and whatever else you come up with and probably be able to rotate options weekly.

By the way, there are some other Cable Attachments I recommend for back that I won’t cover here today. You can check those out here.

The Best MAG Grip Accessories

T-Bar Rows

Probably the biggest accessory to the MAG Grip Cable Attachments is to get an accessory that allows you to use them for landmine rows. I use a Proloc 2 Collar, a rotating carabiner, and a second carabiner, and the MAG of my choice. But there are a few options that can work here.

I find the Medium Pronate to be the best here. This gives me a T-Bar row style landmine option, without having to buy additional attachments that are, in my opinion, inferior to the MAGs.

Pull Ups

I’ve also used the MAG Grip Cable Attachments for pull-ups. If you have a rack with a cross-member up top, I’d grab something like a Rogue Shackle. If you don’t have that, I use a simple strap like this and a carabiner over my pull-up bar.

The shackle is better, because it won’t rotate at all. The strap will move on you a bit. Not terrible, but just be aware. This is my favorite way to do pull-ups. And I hate pull-ups. I can get more reps, feel them better, and overall don’t hate them as much as I normally do. As a 250lb+ dude at 6ft tall, I think this is a pretty good thumbs up for this alternative.

Carabiner Holes

The holes on the MAG Grip Cable Attachments for the carabiner are pretty small. The Powertec Levergym uses small carabiners, and even our Inspire FT2 does, so I never had a problem with this.

But if you are using a commercial lat tower that uses the larger carabiners, you are going to need a modified solution. The common recommendation is to buy a set of these shackles. These will go into the MAGs carabiner hole and give you a permanent larger hole to attach bigger carabiners to.

However, if you use Wall Control, this is going to make your attachments store weird. Instead, I’d grab these swivel rings. I have the swivel rings on my Prime Attachments and they are fantastic.

That Is A Wrap!

A LOT to dig into here. But to be fair, I did say this was the Comprehensive Guide for the MAG Grip Cable Attachments. I hope you learned more than you needed to and can make an informed decision on your next cable attachment purchase.

If you are looking for some other cable attachments, check out my write up here.

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