Equipment index · 23 tracked · page 2 of 2

Lower-body machines

Leg machines earn their space through biomechanics, user fit and fast setup — not by combining the most exercise names.

The question that decides it: Does the machine earn its floor space with good biomechanics, adjustability and fast client-to-client setup?

Every lower-body machines product we track.

GluteBuilder

Glute Press

Sold, but not priced. Re-verified Oct 13, 2026: GluteBuilder publishes no real retail price for this machine — the rendered page carries no currency figure of its own and no purchase control at all, and the only call to action is ORDER NOW, which links to the brand's contact page. This entry previously generalised that to the whole storefront, and that generalisation was wrong: GluteBuilder's MACHINES are quote-only, but its accessories and apparel are normally priced with working add-to-cart. The GLUTEBUILDER Barbell Pad, verified on its own page this run, renders a visible "SALE PRICE $75.00" with an enabled ADD TO CART, and the recommendation carousel on this very page prices mini bands, power-band packages, hats and t-shirts. So the absence of a price here is a decision about capital equipment, not a storefront that cannot display prices — which makes it more likely, not less, that a real machine figure exists behind the quote. The product pages and the catalogue also state that GluteBuilder is "Distributed globally by Precor", which is the practical route to a quote. One caution for automated reading: the page's structured data publishes a price of 0.00 alongside an InStock availability, and neither figure is real — there is no price and there is no cart.

A plate-loaded hip-extension press whose loading arm follows a downward curved motion path, which the brand says is intended to bias load toward the hips and glutes rather than the quadriceps. Backrest adjustable to 4 angles, with the brand noting that a reclined setting shifts emphasis toward the quads. Adjustable shoulder pads for trunk stability, a depth-adjustable seat-and-backrest unit, an oversized non-slip footplate plus additional footplate support for single-leg variations, five integrated plate-storage horns beside the loading horn, and band-peg compatibility for accommodating resistance. Weight-disc loading points sit at two different heights relative to the loading arm's pivot, which the brand says lets the user make resistance lighter or heavier at different points in the range. Published starting weight 40 lb / 18 kg; published max lift load capacity 660 lb / 300 kg.

Why it matters: This fills a category hole rather than reporting a launch. Loaded hip extension is a major lower-body pattern the index does not cover at all: lower-body.json carries twelve products across ATX, Bells of Steel, Body-Solid, Chisel Fit, GMWD/Mikolo, Mikolo, RitFit, Temple of Gainz and WM Fabrication, and none of them is a hip-extension or glute press — the category's whole tag vocabulary runs belt-squat, hack-squat, leg-extension-curl, leg-press and multi-function, with no term for this movement. GluteBuilder publishes ten plate-loaded models in this pattern, including a dedicated hip thrust and a 45-degree hip extension, and states global distribution through Precor, which makes it a reasonable anchor entry for the category rather than an obscure pick.

Watch for: Price is the blocker and it is not a detail: nothing is published on the brand's site, so this machine cannot be given a price field or a comparison slot until a real figure comes from Precor or an authorized dealer. Read the structured data on this page with care — its JSON-LD offer declares availability schema.org/InStock at "price": "0.00" and its meta tags repeat product:availability=in stock and product:price:amount=0.00, so any tool reading only the schema will report this as a free, in-stock, add-to-cart product. It is none of those things. The published dimension string is "91 x 55 x 58 in / 141 x 231 x 147 cm", and the two halves do not list their axes in the same order: 91 in converts to 231 cm, not 141 cm, so the first two metric figures are transposed relative to the imperial. No footprint or orientation is recorded here for that reason — confirm which axis is which off a spec sheet or from Precor before planning a space around it. Warranty is unconfirmed: a warranty policy is linked in the footer but the product page states no term. The 660 lb capacity and 40 lb starting weight are manufacturer figures with no stated test method, and the page's performance language is marketing copy, not tested claims. Freight, residential delivery and assembly are entirely unaddressed on the brand's own pages, and for a commercial-sized machine this is the dominant hidden cost.

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Sep 18–Oct 17 no price published · stock not recorded · Released · 9 checks

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GluteBuilder

Hip Thrust Elite

Sold, but not priced. Re-verified Oct 13, 2026: no real retail price for this machine appears on the page, and it carries no purchase control — the only call to action is ORDER NOW, linking to the brand's contact page. This entry previously said "GluteBuilder's whole catalogue renders zero prices", and that was wrong: the brand's MACHINES are quote-only, while its accessories and apparel are normally priced with working add-to-cart. The GLUTEBUILDER Barbell Pad renders a visible "SALE PRICE $75.00" with an enabled ADD TO CART on its own page, and bands, band packages, hats and t-shirts are priced in the carousel on this page. The brand states it is "Distributed globally by Precor", which is the practical route to a quote. For automated reading: the structured data publishes a price of 0.00 with an InStock availability, and neither is real. GluteBuilder's catalogue now also lists a SELECTORIZED HIP THRUST ELITE flagged as new, a selectorized sibling to this plate-loaded machine, which the index does not yet track separately.

A plate-loaded barbell hip thrust machine. The barbell runs on a double linear bearing system that the brand says lets it travel up and down and also slide forwards and backwards, rather than on a fixed vertical path. Oversized angled bench with integrated shoulder pads, which the brand says prevents the lifter sliding backwards. A 3D angled foot plate is provided for hip external rotation. Barbell racking system with 3 locking points. Four integrated plate-storage horns and band pegs for accommodating resistance. The bench height adjusts to seven positions and can be set as low as the foot plate to replicate a glute bridge — the seven-position figure is published only inside the page’s collapsed FAQ, not in the spec table. Published dimensions 77 x 67 x 51 in / 196 x 170 x 130 cm, whose imperial and metric halves agree axis for axis (unlike the Glute Press, whose metric figures are transposed). Published equipment weight 550 lb / 249 kg; published starting weight 66 lb / 30 kg; published max load weight 660 lb / 300 kg.

Why it matters: This is the second GluteBuilder product in the index and it closes the specific hole the Glute Press entry named but did not fill. Loaded hip thrust is a distinct movement from the curved-path hip extension of the Glute Press, and before this entry lower-body.json carried no barbell hip thrust machine from any brand — the category tag vocabulary (belt-squat, hack-squat, leg-extension-curl, leg-press, multi-function) still has no term for the movement. The starting weights differ in a way that matters when sizing the bottom of the load range rather than the top: 66 lb here against 40 lb on the Glute Press, with both rated to the same 660 lb ceiling.

Watch for: Price is the blocker and it is not a detail: nothing is published anywhere on the brand’s site, so this machine cannot carry a price field or enter a comparison until a real figure comes from Precor or an authorized dealer. Read the structured data with care — the JSON-LD offer declares availability schema.org/InStock at "price": "0.00", and the meta tags repeat product:availability=in stock and product:price:amount=0.00, so any tool reading only the schema reports this as a free, in-stock, add-to-cart product. It is none of those things; this is the second GluteBuilder page with that exact trap, and a hidden cart form exists in the theme template while rendering no control at all, so the absence of a visible control is the reliable signal. Do not conflate this with the selectorized variant, which is a genuinely different machine. Re-read Oct 17, 2026, its page renders dimensions of 76 x 63 x 57 in. against 77 x 67 x 51 in. here, and a 387 lb max load against 660 lb, with a 235 lb standard or 387 lb heavy selectorized stack in place of plate loading. Its metric half reconciles axis for axis with its imperial half, unlike the Glute Press. The selectorized machine is also still unpriced with no purchase control of its own, so it remains outside this index rather than being a cheaper or dearer route to the same movement. Warranty is unconfirmed: a warranty policy is linked in the footer but the product page states no term, re-tested case-insensitively Oct 17, 2026 against year-warranty, limited-warranty and guarantee wording, all of which return nothing — the only matches are the footer policy links themselves. The 660 lb capacity, 66 lb starting weight and 550 lb equipment weight are manufacturer figures with no stated test method, and the page’s performance language is marketing copy rather than tested claims. Freight, residential delivery and assembly are entirely unaddressed on the brand’s own pages — shipping, freight, assembly, delivery, residential, curbside, liftgate and install all render zero times after the FAQs are expanded — and at 550 lb and 77 inches long that is the dominant hidden cost.

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Sep 19–Oct 17 no price published · stock not recorded · Released · 9 checks

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Freak Athlete

FA Apex

$1,995.00 · Orderable on Freak Athlete's own store as of Sept 23, 2026 at $1,995.00, with one visible enabled ADD TO CART and JSON-LD schema.org/InStock. The availability wording a buyer actually sees is a badge reading "SHIPS BY OCT 15", sitting in a row with LIFETIME WARRANTY, 30 DAY RETURNS and FINANCING AVAILABLE. There is no in-stock line on this page: the one rendered "in stock" string belongs to a promotional overlay, not to any purchase control. Shipping is free and the page quantifies it, striking $210.74 through to FREE. The JSON-LD carries priceValidUntil 2026-10-10, so $1,995.00 is a dated figure rather than an open-ended list price. Published assembly time 30-45 minutes.

A four-in-one posterior-chain station: GHD sit-ups and glute-ham raises, back extension, hyperextension and Nordic curls. Published specifications, using the brand's own axis labels: Height 49.63 in / 126.056 cm, Width 70.08 in / 178.015 cm, Length 38.48 in / 97.75 cm. Ten incline levels up to 45 degrees. The footplate carries "12 length adjustments, supporting users from 4'6" to 7' tall. Curved padding for glute-ham raises, XL ankle rollers, a step-up platform, a weighted pendulum, band pegs, and what the brand calls a "heavy duty, commercial grade belt" included. Product weight is published as 272 lb in the page's structured data. Orders placed now are stated to include a 2026 update: "Order today and your Apex arrives with the 4 step-up feet, the updated pendulum and the shorter end belt."

Why it matters: The index tracks no dedicated GHD, back-extension, hyperextension or Nordic machine, so this is a category gap rather than a missing product — and it is the first entry to use the finder's existing "glute-ham" tag, which until now no product carried. The gap is narrower than it looks, though, and that is the useful comparison: Nordic capability already exists in the index as bench attachments, including from this same brand, whose ABX bench sells a Nordic Max attachment, and REP's Leg Roller 2.0 inverts for Nordic curls. So the buyer question this entry finally makes answerable is whether a dedicated $1,995 frame beats an attachment on a bench you already own. Freak Athlete is an indie maker already in the index, so its pricing and page behaviour are known quantities.

Watch for: Four things this entry deliberately does not smooth over. First, "SHIPS BY OCT 15" is a ship-by date, not stock on hand, and it will go stale — re-check it after Oct 15 rather than carrying it forward. Second, the $1,995.00 is governed by a priceValidUntil of 2026-10-10 in the structured data, so treat it as a dated figure. Third, the axis labels appear transposed: this page calls the 70.08 in axis "Width" and the 38.48 in axis "Length", which is the opposite convention to the brand's own Hyper Pro X page, where the long axis is labelled Length — so confirm the footprint against a photo before building any space-constrained recommendation on it. Fourth, neither a weight capacity nor a steel gauge or wall thickness is published anywhere on the page, confirmed at zero occurrences in the rendered page, the deep DOM and the raw HTML after expanding every collapsed panel. That absence matters on a GHD specifically, because it is a leverage machine where bodyweight plus added load acts at the end of a long arm. Finally, a scratch-to-win discount overlay fires on this page, so some visitors will be shown an unverifiable discount off $1,995.00 that this entry cannot confirm.

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Price unchanged since Sep 23

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Sep 23–Oct 18 $1,995.00 · stock not recorded · Released · 19 checks

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Freak Athlete

Hyper Pro X

$699.00 launch price ($799.00 list) · A PRE-ORDER as of Oct 4, 2026, expected to ship November 15, and this entry can now be more precise about why the stock line cannot be trusted: the store serves this product at two live URLs that tell two different stories. /products/hyper-pro (product id 9566823121135, SKU HPX-PREORDER) is the URL the store itself links — it appears in /collections/all and in the header and footer navigation, under a card titled HYPER PRO X — and it renders "SHIPS BY NOV 15" alongside "Ordering today guarantees you the earliest available ship date. Pre-orders ship in the order they are received." and "Changed your mind? Cancel anytime before it ships for a full refund." /products/hyper-pro-x (product id 9584407642351, SKUs HPX and HPX-WITH-ADAPTER), which is the URL this entry cites, appears in no product link on the store's one browsable collection and in no navigation entry; it is reachable by direct link only, and it is the page that renders the misleading "In stock - Ships in 1-2 business days", carrying data-ship-state="instock" where the listed page sets that attribute to "silent". Both are purchasable, both publish schema availability InStock, and both price identically: $799.00 with a $100 launch discount rendering to $699.00, shown as "You've saved $100 on the Hyper Pro X" beside a LAUNCH PRICE chip and under a banner reading "INTRODUCING THE HYPER PRO X — $100 OFF AT LAUNCH". The page's own FAQ states "The first $100 is already applied on this page, which is why it's $699.00 instead of $799.00." The discount window has now been extended twice: priceValidUntil in the structured data reads 2026-10-21 as of Oct 11, 2026, where this entry recorded 2026-10-14 on Oct 4 and 2026-10-10 before that, and the superseded dates no longer appear on the page in any layer. The 2026-10-21 value is published on all three offers across both URLs (HPX and HPX-WITH-ADAPTER on /products/hyper-pro-x, HPX-PREORDER on /products/hyper-pro), so the discount was extended rather than allowed to expire. One further layer disagreement, new on Oct 11: the JSON-LD now publishes price 699 while the variant data still reads $799.00 with no compare-at, so structured data and variant data are no longer consistent with each other on this product. The $100 arrives as a cart-level discount rather than a compare-at price, so the store's underlying variant data still reads $799.00 with no compare-at — a reader taking the price from that layer will be $100 high. International pre-orders are open, quoted at November 30 for Canada and Australia and 15 December for the UK and EU. The upgrade offer is still stated as "expected to end on October 15".

A single-pad posterior-chain station the brand markets as covering "25+ movements — Nordics, Back Extensions, GHDs, Leg Extensions and more", using two adjustment points and one integrated pad with no parts to swap between movements. Published specifications: max user weight 500 lb; fits users 5'0" to 7'0"+; 14 pad positions; machine weight 114 lb, or 125 lb with the GHD attachment fitted, the attachment itself being 11.5 lb; TruGrip Leather Vinyl pad material; Starlight Black powder coat. In-use dimensions are published as Length 59.1 in, Width 24.8 in, Height 23.2 in, with a pad height of 17.2 in. Stored footprint is published separately as 24 x 25 x 59 in. A GHD attachment the brand values at $200 is included in the box. The Leg Developer is a separate $399 attachment, or $349 if added to the same order.

Why it matters: This is the cheap end of a category the index does not otherwise cover at all — $699-799 against the FA Apex's $1,995 — and it is the first product to pair with the Apex under the finder's previously unused "glute-ham" tag. Its argument is storage rather than capability, which is the constraint most of this site's audience actually buys under: a unit that stores vertically is a different proposition from a full GHD frame, and until now the index had nothing to compare either against. The upgrade path is the other reason it matters. Existing Hyper Pro owners are offered $200 off in total, the first $100 already inside the $699, with the brand stating the second $100 arrives by email around September 30 and that "the upgrade offer is expected to end on October 15".

Watch for: Do not trust this page's stock line. The buy box says "In stock - Ships in 1-2 business days" and that is wrong — the same page's FAQ says pre-order shipping November 15, your card is charged at order placement, and the identical product at the brand's /products/hyper-pro URL shows no stock line at all. Ask for the ship date in writing before paying. Second, the storage claim does not survive its own numbers: the page says the machine "stores vertically in under 2 x 2 ft", but the stored footprint it publishes is 24 x 25 in, which is 2.0 ft by 2.08 ft and therefore over 2 x 2 ft on one axis. Third, the $799.00-versus-$699.00 mismatch is real but it has moved, so check the right layer: the JSON-LD now publishes $699.00 on both offers, and it is the Shopify product and variant price that still reads $799.00, with the $100 applied by the launch block and the Add to Cart control. An automated comparison reading structured data will now agree with the buyer; one reading the platform price will still be $100 high. Both variants — Standard and "Leg Developer Adapter included" — are the same $799.00; the adapter is a free toggle, not a priced option. Fourth, a Leg Developer bought for the original Hyper Pro does NOT fit the X, and Hyper Pro attachments do not carry over, which is a real cost for the owners this launch is aimed at. Fifth, the "25+ movements" figure is marketing arithmetic, not a specification, and the 500 lb figure is a MAX USER WEIGHT rather than a load capacity — no load capacity, steel gauge or wall thickness is published anywhere on the page. Finally, the brand spells its own pad material two ways on one page, TruGrip and TruGip. One last thing the star rating will not tell you: the page publishes a 4.9 average from 3,204 reviews alongside the statement that every review is from a verified owner of this product, on a machine that has not shipped yet. Sampled review text describes the predecessor Hyper Pro rather than the X, including a reviewer who says they have been using the Hyper Pro for the past six months, and the page's own prose slips into praising "the Hyper Pro" for its versatility. Carrying a predecessor's reviews onto a successor listing is common; presenting them as verified owners of the new machine is not the same claim, and nothing on the page lets a reader separate the two.

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Sep 23–Oct 18 $699.00 launch price ($799.00 list) · pre-order · Released · 17 checks

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GMWD

FID Bench Press Shoulder Press Machine V8

$1,199.99 · In stock and orderable, verified Oct 5, 2026: Stealth Black $1,199.99, Glacial White / Gloss Crimson Red / Acid Green $1,229.99, enabled Add to Cart. GMWD states 48-hour dispatch, 3-7 day delivery, free shipping to the lower 48, a 35-day refund window and a limited lifetime frame warranty. A GMWD Fall Sale ad seen Oct 5 advertises this machine at $999 for Oct 3-7; that figure does not appear on the product page, so the index records $1,199.99.

Plate-loaded 4-in-1 press station: decline, flat, incline and overhead shoulder press from one frame, on independent converging (scissor) arms. Published specifications: backrest 8 angles (-10°, 0°, 15°, 30°, 45°, 60°, 70°, 80°), seat 3 angles (0°, 10°, 20°), 12-position angled dial grips, 22-level bench depth slide and 22 vertical arm positions with gas-spring assist. 3 x 3 in main frame tubing, 67.3 x 67 x 59.6 in (L x W x H), 260 lb assembled. 300 lb per arm (600 lb total) capacity, 16 lb unloaded starting resistance, 800 lb maximum user weight, two 11.7 in loading horns plus two rear storage horns. GMWD states a 5'1" to 6'5" user range.

Why it matters: A machine answer to the incline/decline bench question: the decline and overhead positions the bench roundup weighs as compromises on an FID bench are fixed, supported pressing paths here, with no spotter needed. Against GMWD's own older V7 ($559.99, 2 x 2 in tubing, 150 lb per arm, fixed grips and seat), the V8 doubles per-arm capacity and adds the decline, the seat tilt and the dial grips.

Watch for: It is a press machine, not a bench: it does not replace a flat/incline bench for dumbbell or barbell work, and at 67 x 67 in it claims more floor than most racks. Every capacity figure is a manufacturer specification with no stated test method, and the index holds no independent review of it yet. Treat any sale price, including the $999 in GMWD's Oct 3-7 ad, as real only once it shows on the product page or in the cart.

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Oct 5–Oct 18 $1,199.99 · stock not recorded · Released · 15 checks

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GMWD

Ascent DD12 Leg Press and Hack Squat Machine

$1,999.99 as the launch-offer price the page states, shown beside a struck-through $2,199.99; the store's own variant data and structured data both now read $2,199.99 (pre-order; $2,499.99 compare-at) · Pre-order, re-verified Oct 15, 2026: both colourways (White, Black) carry the variant label "Pre-Order | Ships in January 2027" and are orderable now, with a visible Add To Cart carrying no disabled attribute and aria-disabled null. Part of GMWD's six-machine Ascent line, all published to GMWD's store on Sept 28, 2026 with the same January 2027 ship window. The price layers stopped agreeing on Oct 15, 2026, and a buyer needs to know which one to read. GMWD raised this machine's listed price: its variant data and its structured data both moved from $1,999.99 to $2,199.99, and the main price block now renders "Sale price $2,199.99 USD / Regular price $2,499.99 USD / Save 12%" where it had previously shown a larger saving against the same list price. Immediately below it the page renders a separate offer block reading "Ascent Launch Offer - Save $200 / Your price: $1,999.99 $2,199.99 / Exclusively for early supporters", with the $2,199.99 struck through. So the figure a buyer is told to pay is unchanged at $1,999.99, but it is now held there by an offer block rather than by the product's own price. This index has no prior rendered read of this page, so whether that offer block is new on Oct 15 cannot be established from our own record - only that the underlying price moved on this date. The $1,999.99 could not be confirmed as applied at checkout, because confirming it would require placing the item in a cart. This was product-specific rather than a line-wide repricing: the other five Ascent machines were read the same day from the same store data and none of their prices moved.

Plate-loaded leg press and hack squat combination with a calf-raise position (GMWD's own product tags list leg press, hack squat and calf raise). GMWD's page publishes no dimensions or load capacity in its product description as of Oct 5, 2026.

Why it matters: The top of GMWD's new Ascent line and a direct price rival to the plate-loaded leg press / hack squat combos the hub already tracks, such as Temple of Gainz' Quadsend at $4,199.99, at under half that price.

Watch for: No published dimensions or capacity yet, which is the first thing to check on a leg press before it is anything else. This is a pre-order still roughly three months out: the price is real but the machine is not shipping yet, and GMWD's January 2027 date has not been tested by a single delivery. Watch what is holding the price. As of Oct 15, 2026 the machine's own listed price is $2,199.99 and the $1,999.99 you are quoted comes from a separate "Ascent Launch Offer" block aimed at "early supporters". If that block ends, nothing else on the page has to change for the price to be $200 higher, because the underlying price has already moved. Confirm the $1,999.99 survives into the cart before ordering, and get it in writing on a pre-order you will not receive until January.

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Oct 5–Oct 18 $1,999.99 as the launch-offer price the page states, shown beside a struck-through $2,199.99; the store's own variant data and structured data both now read $2,199.99 (pre-order; $2,499.99 compare-at) · stock not recorded · Coming soon · 15 checks

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GMWD

Ascent HB2 Selectorized Hip Thrust Machine

$1,499.99 as the launch-offer price the page states, shown beside a struck-through $1,799.99; the store's own variant data and structured data both now read $1,799.99 (pre-order; $2,199.99 compare-at) · Pre-order, re-verified Oct 16, 2026 by the index's first rendered read of this page: both colourways (White, DG-HB02-W; Black, DG-HB02-B) carry the variant label "Pre-Order | Ships in January 2027" and are orderable now, with a visible Add To Cart carrying no disabled attribute and aria-disabled null, read twice about twenty-five seconds apart. A second add-to-cart element exists but is not visible, so the control was judged on attributes rather than on text. Part of GMWD's six-machine Ascent line, all published to GMWD's store on Sept 28, 2026 with the same January 2027 ship window. The price layers stopped agreeing on Oct 16, 2026, and the two layers move in opposite directions from what this index had recorded. GMWD raised the machine's own listed price: its variant data and its single JSON-LD ProductGroup now both read $1,799.99 on both colourways, and the main price block renders "Sale price $1,799.99 USD / Regular price $2,199.99 USD / Save 18%" with the compare-at held at $2,199.99. Immediately below it the page renders a separate visible offer block reading "Ascent Launch Offer — Save $300 / Your price: $1,499.99 / Exclusively for early supporters", with the $1,799.99 struck through and confirmed as computed line-through. So the figure a buyer is quoted is $1,499.99 while the machine's own price is $1,799.99. That offer block is theme custom-liquid with no Shopify discount mechanics behind it: discount_code, discountCode, applied_discount and automatic discount each return zero occurrences in the raw HTML and the word discount renders nowhere. It is the same construction as the blocks on the DD12 and the SR9 — but unlike the SR9's, this one is current rather than stale decoration, because the figure it strikes through is the price the page is actually charging today. This index has no rendered read of this page before today, so whether the offer block is new, or its figure has changed, cannot be established from our own record — only that the underlying price moved on this date. The $1,499.99 could not be confirmed as applied at checkout, because confirming it would require placing the item in a cart. GMWD's store does not expose inventory_policy or inventory_quantity on this product, so the orderable-versus-in-stock test cannot be run from inventory data here; the variant label is the only orderability evidence, and it says pre-order.

Selectorized hip thrust: a 200 lb weight stack in 10 lb increments with a selector pin, plus integrated band pegs for adding resistance bands on top of the stack.

Why it matters: A weight stack makes this the quick-change option for drop sets, where a plate-loaded hip thrust means stripping plates between sets.

Watch for: A 200 lb stack is a hard ceiling for a hip thrust, a movement many lifters load past quickly; the band pegs are the only way above it. This is a pre-order still roughly three months out: the price is real but the machine is not shipping yet, and GMWD's January 2027 date has not been tested by a single delivery. Watch what is holding the price, because it is not the machine's own price. As of Oct 16, 2026 the listed price is $1,799.99 and the $1,499.99 you are quoted comes from a separate "Ascent Launch Offer" block aimed at "early supporters". If that block ends, nothing else on the page has to change for the price to be $300 higher. The offer block carries no discount code and no automatic-discount mechanics, so there is nothing a buyer can verify in advance — confirm the $1,499.99 survives into the cart before ordering, and get it in writing on a machine you will not receive until January. The same offer-block pattern now appears on three Ascent machines, so when comparing within the line, compare the listed prices as well as the quoted ones; the two no longer tell the same story.

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Oct 5 · low $1,499.99 · high $1,699.99Oct 18

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Oct 16–Oct 18 $1,499.99 as the launch-offer price the page states, shown beside a struck-through $1,799.99; the store's own variant data and structured data both now read $1,799.99 (pre-order; $2,199.99 compare-at) · stock not recorded · Coming soon · 4 checks
Oct 5–Oct 15 $1,699.99 (pre-order; $2,199.99 compare-at) · stock not recorded · Coming soon · 11 checks

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GMWD

Ascent HA3 Selectorized Hip Abductor and Adductor Machine

$1,599.99 (pre-order; $2,099.99 compare-at) · Pre-order, verified Oct 5, 2026: both colourways (White, Black) carry the variant label "Pre-Order | Ships in January 2027" and are orderable now. Part of GMWD's six-machine Ascent line, all published to GMWD's store on Sept 28, 2026 with the same January 2027 ship window.

Combined hip abductor / adductor on a built-in 200 lb weight stack.

Why it matters: The second inner/outer thigh machine in the index, at roughly half the price of Body-Solid's Pro Select GIOT-STK.

Watch for: A single-purpose machine: it earns its footprint only if hip abduction and adduction are a regular part of your training. This is a pre-order three months out: the price is real but the machine is not shipping yet, and GMWD's date has not been tested by a single delivery.

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Oct 5–Oct 18 $1,599.99 (pre-order; $2,099.99 compare-at) · stock not recorded · Coming soon · 15 checks

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GMWD

Ascent SR9 Dual-Sided Linear Row Machine

$1,299.99 (pre-order; $1,699.99 regular) · Pre-order and repriced upward. Verified Oct 8, 2026 at each colourway's own ?variant= URL, with the variant id, the checked radio label and location.href all asserted in the same execution as the price: White (67533309640979) and Black (67533309673747) both render "Sale price $1,299.99 USD / Regular price $1,699.99 USD / Save 24%", with the $1,699.99 in a compare-at node computing text-decoration-line: line-through, and JSON-LD giving both variants price 1299.99 and InStock (SKUs DG-SR09-W / DG-SR09-B). Add to cart is visible and enabled on both. The ship window did NOT move: both variant labels and both JSON-LD variant names still read exactly "Pre-Order | Ships in January 2027". Only the price changed. On Oct 5, 2026 this machine was $1,199.99.

Dual-sided plate-loaded linear row on commercial linear bearings and hardened chrome guide rods.

Why it matters: Still the cheapest dual-sided linear row in the index, but the margin has narrowed. At $1,299.99 it undercuts ATX's dual-sided LRX-750 by $199.01 rather than the $299.01 it undercut it by a week ago - and as of Oct 8, 2026 the ATX machine is out of stock with no add-to-cart control and no published restock date, so the comparison is between a pre-order you can place and a machine you cannot buy at all.

Watch for: No published capacity or dimensions yet in GMWD's product description. This is a pre-order three months out: the price is real but the machine is not shipping yet, and GMWD's date has not been tested by a single delivery. Anyone who pre-ordered before Oct 8, 2026 paid $1,199.99 for the same January 2027 ship window. Do not expect the $1,099.99 the page advertises. A hardcoded block headed "Ascent Launch Offer - Save $100" renders "Your price: $1,099.99" with $1,199.99 struck through, "Exclusively for early supporters". That block is a static inline-styled div with no Shopify discount mechanics behind it - no code, no date range, nothing applied at checkout - and its struck figure is the OLD list price, so GMWD raised the price to $1,299.99 and left the launch-offer block untouched. The live price controls are unambiguous: $1,299.99 against a struck $1,699.99. By contrast the identical block on the Ascent FR2 still strikes a figure that matches that machine's live price, which is how the SR9 block is known to be stale rather than merely decorative. The colourway asymmetry this entry previously recorded is gone: White and Black now both carry a $1,699.99 compare-at, where on Oct 5 White showed $1,499.99 and Black $2,499.99 at an identical sale price. A regular price can now be recorded, because GMWD finally publishes the same one for both colours. The asymmetry does persist on the Ascent FR2 ($1,799.99 White against $2,499.99 Black), so it has been fixed on this machine, not across the line.

Price record · verified 14× since Oct 5

↑ $100 on Oct 8 (was $1,199.99)

A price increase, not a sale ending. How we track

Oct 5 · low $1,199.99 · high $1,299.99Oct 18

Full record

Oct 8–Oct 18 $1,299.99 (pre-order; $1,699.99 regular) · stock not recorded · Coming soon · 12 checks
Oct 5–Oct 6 $1,199.99 (pre-order) · stock not recorded · Coming soon · 2 checks

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GMWD

Ascent SR10 Chest-Supported T-Bar Row Machine

$1,199.99 (pre-order; $1,659.99 compare-at) · Pre-order, verified Oct 5, 2026: both colourways (White, Black) carry the variant label "Pre-Order | Ships in January 2027" and are orderable now. Part of GMWD's six-machine Ascent line, all published to GMWD's store on Sept 28, 2026 with the same January 2027 ship window.

Plate-loaded chest-supported T-bar row (GMWD tags it back and lats).

Why it matters: Sits well above Mikolo's $369.99 T-bar S7 in price; the case for it will rest on capacity and build, which GMWD has not yet published.

Price record · verified 15× since Oct 5

Price unchanged since Oct 5

This is a sale or promo price the page labels as such; the regular price is higher. How we track

Full record

Oct 5–Oct 18 $1,199.99 (pre-order; $1,659.99 compare-at) · stock not recorded · Coming soon · 15 checks

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GMWD

Ascent FR2 Selectorized Pec Fly and Rear Delt Machine

$1,399.99 (pre-order) · Pre-order, verified Oct 5, 2026: both colourways (White, Black) carry the variant label "Pre-Order | Ships in January 2027" and are orderable now. Part of GMWD's six-machine Ascent line, all published to GMWD's store on Sept 28, 2026 with the same January 2027 ship window.

Selectorized pec fly / rear delt machine with adjustable arm and seat positions on magnetic adjustment pins, precision bearings and all-aluminium pulleys.

Why it matters: A dual-purpose isolation machine for chest and rear delts, a pairing usually found only in commercial gyms.

Watch for: Stack weight is not stated in the product description. This is a pre-order three months out: the price is real but the machine is not shipping yet, and GMWD's date has not been tested by a single delivery. GMWD lists different compare-at figures for the two colourways ($1,799.99 White, $2,499.99 Black), so the index records no regular price.

Price record · verified 5× since Oct 5

Price unchanged since Oct 5

Same price on every check: no sale or drop recorded. How we track

Full record

Oct 5–Oct 13 $1,399.99 (pre-order) · stock not recorded · Coming soon · 5 checks

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Which way to go.

Choose selectorized

Best for fast weight changes, shared gyms and frequent leg-extension or curl work.

Choose plate-loaded

Best when budget matters and you already own enough plates.

Choose a combo machine

Best only when both movements feel good; do not accept two compromised stations to save space.

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