Wide Body Bench With 4 Ground Breaking Attachments For Your Home Gym

Last updated on May 15th, 2025 at 07:59 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 go “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. The question, is whether any of these attachments is going to replace a dedicated machine or not. And will a bench from a newcomer be able to tackle the giants like REP Fitness?

The Wide Body Bench is now on the Review Pipeline.

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 eventual Showdown of the BEST adjustable benches for a home gym, specifically focusing on those that take attachments.

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, and they are currently building a rack attachment that would allow you to skip the bench, if you so desire, and use the attachments on your rack directly.

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 the 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 any piece of the bench or attachments, 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. And I’m sure I didn’t manage to get all of it out, so it will likely continue to fall periodically on my floor every time I use the Wide Body Bench. I’ve assembled a LOT of gym equipment over the years, and occasionally had a few metal pieces, a sharp edge, etc. 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 Features

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 likely a V1 of a bench that focuses more on the performance aspect of the bench, than some of the finer details in execution.

An easy one, there is no vertical storage. For me, in a home gym space, this is a really tough feature to be missing. We’ve had the Prime Shorty Bench for awhile now, and because of the lack of vertical storage, it takes up much more space when not in use, typically has to be wheeled around the gym multiple times throughout a workout, and all around becomes a burden for a space constrained gym. Vertical Storage has been a common addition for several years now, and personally, for my space, is damn near a requirement for any bench I would keep long term. This is a big strike for the Wide Body Bench out the gate.

Angle Adjustments

The ladder system is essentially 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, it is completely flipped. You have the notches on the support post. The reason this is a little less than ideal, is that you have to work a bit harder to get the bench to angle where you want it to. Because the ladder is bolted on as well, it can catch and need a hand to place it where it needs to go. A ladder system is normally awesome because it works so seamlessly with one hand.

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. You’ll also notice that the Wide Body Bench is metal on metal throughout. The ladder is all metal, all the adjustments pieces, attachments, and more. This will likely lend itself to scratches and dings as time goes on.

Front Post

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 out the gate on the purpose of this. It feels like a “we forgot to add a handle” design decision, but maybe there is some functionality there that I will find as we go.

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.

Wide Body Bench Attachments

Ok, this is what you came here for. The Wide Body Bench has an attachment arm coming off the side of the bench. It 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. A couple out the gate notes, just from assembly and taking pictures. Having SO many angle adjustment options is awesome, but also a burden. I attached the curl arms on one side, then tried to mirror that on the other side.

I quickly realized I was off by a bit and had to readjust. It took a few adjustments before I nailed it. If you happened to put them on, load a plate, then realize you need it down a bit, you have to unload the plates, take it all off, adjust, lock in, and reload the plates.

There are NO markings or indicators telling you if you set it “correctly”, or equal, or whatever term we want to use here. The Wide Body Bench did come with some sticker markings, but I’m going to have to play with that. So there is some trade off to having unlimited potential, like what I found in the Bulletproof Isolator.

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 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.

We will see how this plays into my training, as out the gate, this is the attachment that excites me the least. I see the others as potential game changers in the home gym, and this being a very niche product for powerlifters any people potentially with pec and shoulder problems that still want to bench.

Chest Press

The Chest Press was the first attachment that really caught my eye. I saw it and immediately though, is this 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. Pictured above is the Chest Press in the shoulder press position. Because the bench and attachment can be angled in a number of orientations, you could take this from flat, through incline, into shoulder press. Which is honestly pretty insane for a bench to do.

The attachment can handle 4x45lb plates PER side, which should be enough for most people, outside of some serious benchers and bodybuilders. And as I’ve stated before, at a certain point, you just need the real thing if you are chasing monster numbers.

The weight posts are a polished chrome with plastic end cap. And the arms pivot on an actual bearing system, not on bolts. The handles are the nice 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.

The concerns I have are going to be around fit for multiple athletes. The arms do not have any way to adjust their length, meaning that if I don’t fit on the bench well, I’m going to be stuck. To be fair, this is an issue for the Powertec Levergym as well, my buddy JB who is 6′ 4″ struggled to find room, and ended up hating the machine.

At 6ft I was basically at the very end of the bench to be able to fit. I have concerns with how short the arms are here, that I might have a similar issue. We’ll be testing with myself, my wife, my daughter, and likely a few friends that are various shapes and sizes.

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 chest exercise. BUT, I knew I couldn’t leave out one of the three attachments are 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.

The thing that has 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. I’m almost interested to see if I can tinker with this and get anything else out of it. Maybe a reverse fly? Some type of row?

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 has me grinning from ear to ear in possibilities.

Again we have bearings, nice posts, handles, and everything LOOKS like it is done well. Which is a promising start. The issues I tend to find with pieces like this, are going to be around range of motion. We are either going to have a poor starting point and miss the stretch, or have such a HUGE stretch that we struggle to set the weight down at the end of a hard set, or we lack that top range of motion and end up doing half reps. Again, no adjustments in length, so we are left with adjusting the angles to try and accommodate different sized lifters and accomplish our goal.

We will see if I can fit in here and get a quality workout, and then have my wife hop in right after on the same settings or not.

What I’m Looking For In The Wide Body Bench

The Wide Body Bench is going to need to pass my basic tests first. Is it a good bench? If you have the worlds best attachments, but the bench sucks, then we skipped the first important piece to the puzzle. In a home gym, we likely can’t own multiple adjustable benches, even if each does something different, and in an ideal world we’d only own ONE bench PERIOD. So that is first, is it a good bench for a home gym, or not?

Next, we are going to beat the snot out of these attachments with a number of athletes from big to small and everything in between. If you’ve seen my wife’s notes before, you know she is a first impressions kind of person. If she hops on, it is difficult to set-up, to get fit, to load, and to use, she’ll never use it again. But if its smooth and does its job, she’ll be using the Wide Body Bench every week.

Overall, I need to know if this bench is worth it for the average home gym owner, or not. The price point puts it above a number of the top dogs, and battling it out with major companies like REP and Bells of Steel. BUT the attachments offer (on paper) more than almost anyone else does.

I’ll hopefully get my hands on the rack attachment piece as well. This MIGHT allow us the ability to grab a different bench, but still dive into their ecosystem of attachments. But obviously, the attachments need to crush it. I’m almost going to mess with the attachments and my VOLTRA I’s. I have a feeling that if I can figure out how to load these with them, instead of weights, we’ll have an even better experience.

Other Options On The Market

REP Nighthawk Bench

REP Fitness has been the Home Gym Bench LEADER for quite some time. They took home multiple awards over on Reddit r/HomeGym for their benches, and a huge number of my home gym reviewer pals have sang their praises for years.

They have taken one of their most popular benches, the AB-4100, and built on it to improve stability, versatility, and overall experience. AND it now takes attachments, like their upcoming Leg Developer.

Check out the REP Nighthawk.

Prime Shorty

The Prime Fitness Shorty Bench has been in our garage for awhile. It has a number of attachment options, and they recently released the Smart Arm that integrates with this bench as well. It might just be the most well accessorized adjustable bench on the market, and is one of (the only?) the only benches that is Made In The USA that takes attachments.

Check out more on the Shorty Bench here.

Inspire SCS

The Inspire SCS Bench is no longer available as Inspire has stopped making the original FT2. We will still include this in the round up, as their leg developer is one we have used for years with the FT2 as it integrates into the cable stacks.

Check out the Inspire FT2 Review here.

Powertec Workbench

I freaking LOVED my Powertec Levergym, but their bench was always just OK. My understanding is that they are hard at work building a new one, and this has me very excited. I’m hoping it will be done and available in time for this comparison and showdown.

Bells of Steel Buzz-Saw Bench V2

The BuzzSaw was the first adjustable bench with attachments from one of the big retailers. Their bench has a leg developer, but overall appears to be a much less refined bench compared to the Nighthawk. My initial guess is that it won’t stand up, especially considering the prices are fairly close. But this belongs in the discussion.

Check out the Buzz-Saw.

Ironmaster Super Bench PRO V2

Ironmaster might be the original kings of adjustable benches. When I started my home gym over a decade ago, Ironmaster was kicking butt with the original Super Bench. Yeah, they’ve been killing it for that long. Their line up of attachments includes a lat tower, leg developer, preacher curl, and a lot more. They by far have the MOST attachments available. And the Ironmaster benches always were solid benches. This one is going to be a tough competitor.

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