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REP's wall-mounted Athena has come back out of the stockout recorded here on October 8. The trainer's own line in REP's configurator now reads "PRE-ORDER | EXPECTED SHIP DATE: OCTOBER 29, 2026" at the 93-inch height and October 27, 2026 at 80 inches, and no out-of-stock or notify-me wording renders anywhere on the page. Pricing the actual configurations also corrects this index's own figures in both directions: the cheapest buildable Athena is $1,702.34, not the $1,749.93 recorded before, because Clear Coat uprights cost $182.40 against Metallic Black's $229.99 - and a basics-only 93-inch dual-sided build in stainless reaches $3,004.93, $395.00 above the ceiling recorded before. The "Starting at $2,474.99" on REP's page is neither end of that range. Two cautions for anyone ordering: the page also shows a "Ships within 24-48 hours" badge that contradicts the configurator's own October dates, and four optional accessories (dip station, front foot extension, leg roller, spotter arms) are separately out of stock.

• REP Fitness - Athena Wall-Mounted (official product page and configurator) ↗

CoverageGet RXd

First hands-on Tornado X review: the 1:1.5 mode works, but the longer arms are heavier and sag

Hybrid Resistance put Get RXd's Tornado X arms through a full review on the RX3 Compact Smith, using a unit Get RXd supplied. All three ratios worked. The original pull point gives 2:1, the new middle pulley gives 1:1, and joining the two gives 1:1.5, which Get RXd's own page says turns a 200 lb stack into up to 300 lb of effective resistance. He rated the design sleeker than Maxima's Mutant arms, which added a 1:1 pulley first but carry a bulky counterweight. The cost is weight. The longer X arms felt heavier than the original Tornado arms and pulled downward constantly, which let the cable sag and snag unless he re-angled the arm. The two arms also collide when both are set at 90°. His verdict was that the X arms make sense if you train heavy low rows and pulldowns, but for fast, light sessions he prefers the original Tornado arms or Force USA's lighter FTR arms. The video description carries affiliate links to Get RXd and a Force USA discount code. The retrofit kit is still on preorder at $180 a pair, with general availability stated as the end of November.

• Hybrid Resistance (YouTube) — GET RX'D Tornado X Arms ↗
• Get RXd — RX3 Tornado Compact Smith Machine (Tornado X ratio specs) ↗

CoverageGet RXd

Three Tornado X reviewers agree the ratios work and the arms collide, but split on how smooth it feels

Two more hands-on reviews of Get RXd's Tornado X arms, from Kinzi (Aug 15) and Ryan Treadaway (Sept 13), now sit alongside Hybrid Resistance's. All three confirm the 2:1, 1:1 and combined 1:1.5 modes work. Ryan demonstrated lat pulldowns at 100, 200 and 300 lb effective from a 200 lb stack, and Kinzi measured about 42 in of cable travel at 1:1.5 without the pulley hitting the rack top. All three also found the longer arms collide when pointed straight at each other, fixed by moving one notch out. They split on feel. Kinzi was surprised how smooth even the 1:1.5 mode felt and saw no cable twist, Ryan found 1:1.5 slightly less smooth, and Hybrid Resistance found the arms heavy enough to sag and snag the cable. Two of the three say to pair the kit with the rollered Trolley 2.0, which Get RXd now ships standard on new Pivot Arms. Ryan disagrees with Get RXd on fit: he says true imperial 3x3 uprights are slightly too thick for the 75 mm trolleys, while Get RXd's FAQ says customers have installed them on imperial 3x3. Measure before you buy. Get RXd sent Kinzi her kit, and all three videos carry affiliate links.

• Kinzi (YouTube) — Tornado X Arms review ↗
• Ryan Treadaway (YouTube) — Are the Tornado X Arms Worth the Upgrade? ↗
• Get RXd — RX3 Tornado Pivot Arms (fit and Trolley 2.0 FAQ) ↗

CoverageGet RXd

Belt squatting through the Tornado X arms works, but heavy loads lifted a reviewer's unbolted rack

The Tornado X arms' 1:1.5 mode makes belt squats off a functional trainer practical, and two reviewers did them. Kinzi went up to 200 lb, and Ryan Treadaway found them smooth. Ryan also showed where the limit is. Squatting between the uprights, with a 3x3 brace keeping the front feet from pulling together, he worked up from 300 lb effective through 390 and 480 to 540 lb. At 540 he lifted the whole rack off the floor and knocked it out of square. His advice is to stay at or below about 480 lb effective with a front brace, and to bolt the rack down before going heavier. Hybrid Resistance separately described Get RXd's RX3 Compact Smith as a little top-heavy, noted that it ships without feet, and said he may have shifted it slightly during hard pulls, which he attributed to his own technique. None of this is a product defect. A belt squat pulls the rack toward you with several hundred pounds of force, so if you plan to load heavy, anchor the rack first.

• Ryan Treadaway (YouTube) — belt squat test from 14:00 ↗
• Kinzi (YouTube) — Tornado X Arms review ↗
• Hybrid Resistance (YouTube) ↗

The $50-deposit preorder page is gone — it now returns a hard 404 — and a retail listing published at 12:01am Pacific on Oct 10, 2026, the exact Phase 2 date Speediance had advertised, carrying an "Officially Launched" badge. All five setups are priced for the first time and all five are buyable, each with an enabled Add to Cart and schema.org/InStock, none carrying a compare-at price: Gym Nano $1,699.00, Gym Nano Core $1,999.00, Gym Nano Station $2,299.00, Gym Nano Dual Core $3,998.00, Gym Nano Dual Station $4,398.00. Read the $1,699.00 carefully, because it is not the old price falling: the nine-item bundle Speediance previously published at $1,999.00 is now named Core and still costs $1,999.00, and the cheaper setup is that bundle minus the sliding rack mount and the handle. Two things the preorder page promised have simply vanished from the retail page rather than being honoured or withdrawn — the $50 deposit and its stated 10% early-access discount appear nowhere in any layer of the page, and so does the batched October delivery schedule, which is replaced by generic policy of 1-2 business days handling plus 2-7 days parcel transit. One billing trap worth knowing before you click: the 4-Year Care plan radio arrives pre-selected at $169.00, and the sticky checkout bar can quietly show $4,567.00 for a $4,398.00 machine.

• Speediance Gym Nano product page ↗

The discount we recorded on Oct 6 and Oct 7 is gone, verified Oct 9 on each product page. The GSFR100 all-in-one is back to $5,500.00 from $4,050.00, a $1,450.00 swing. The GFT100 functional trainer is back to $2,895.00 / $3,240.00 / $3,820.00 across its three weight stacks from $2,083.50 / $2,290.50 / $2,686.50. The Pro Select Inner & Outer Thigh machine is back to $2,895.00 for the 210 lb stack and $3,125.00 for the 310 lb from $2,029.50 and $2,241.00. Our own pages carried the sale figures until this run and have been corrected; if you shortlisted any of these three on our numbers this week, re-price them before you buy. What this is not is a store-wide sale ending: Body-Solid's discount programme is still running, and 5 of the 40 machines in the same functional-training collection still show sale markup today, two of them with struck-through prices. These three machines left the sale; the sale did not end. Availability did not move with the price — the GSFR100 and the thigh machine are still buyable, and the GFT100 is still unavailable in all three stacks, as it has been since Sept 17.

• Body-Solid GSFR100 product page ↗
• Body-Solid GFT100 product page ↗
• Body-Solid Pro Select Inner & Outer Thigh product page ↗
• Body-Solid functional training collection ↗

Fringe Sport has published a dated launch page for The Great Dane: "DROPS OCTOBER 23" and "DROPPING 10.23.26" both render, with a live countdown and a price of $3,499. The specification is the flagship of its Dane line: a six-upright frame carrying a built-in Smith machine with an included barbell and safety hooks, a dedicated lat pulldown, a dedicated low row, dual 220 lb stacks, and switchable 1:1 and 2:1 cable ratios. The included list is unusually long for this price — 2 spotter arms, 2 weight horns, lat pulldown and low row attachments, 2 J-cups, 4 magpins, 2 extension feet, 2 D-handles, a lat pulldown bar and chain — and Fringe says the dual weight horns take each stack to 330 lb with 55 lb plates. You cannot buy it yet, and that is the part to plan around: the page carries no purchase control of any kind, only an email waitlist, and Fringe states it is "starting with a limited amount of Great Danes". Note its structured data already claims InStock at $3,499 while no add-to-cart element exists on the page at all, so an automated price tracker will read this as buyable when it is not. On price it lands between the Dane 2.0 + Gibbon Arms at $3,199 and the Dane 2.0 Fully Loaded at $3,899, while including more hardware than either.

• Fringe Sport The Great Dane product page ↗
• Fringe Sport homepage launch banner ↗

GMWD's dual-sided linear row now renders "Sale price $1,299.99 / Regular price $1,699.99 / Save 24%" on both colourways, verified Oct 8 at each variant's own URL. On Oct 5 it was $1,199.99, so this is a $100.00 rise, and the ship window did not move with it: both variants still read "Pre-Order | Ships in January 2027". Ignore the "Ascent Launch Offer - Save $100 / Your price: $1,099.99" block further down the page - it is a static block with no discount behind it, and the price it strikes through is the old $1,199.99, which is how you can tell GMWD raised the price and forgot the banner. One useful side effect: White and Black now share a $1,699.99 regular price, where a week ago they advertised $1,499.99 and $2,499.99 for the same machine at the same sale price, so a regular price is finally worth recording. Only the SR9 moved; the other five Ascent machines hold their prices.

• GMWD official product page ↗

On Oct 4 the Athena trainer carried a pre-order tag and an expected ship date of October 27, 2026 on both the $1,799.99 dual-sided and $949.99 single-sided unit. On Oct 8 both render a red OUT OF STOCK badge with no date and no pre-order tag - a worse state, not a resolved one. The October 27 date moved to a different line, the 93-inch rack uprights, so a quick read of the page can easily credit it to the wrong part. The crossmembers slipped again too, to October 28. Prices did not change: 93-inch dual-sided $2,609.93, 80-inch dual-sided $2,599.93, 80-inch single-sided $1,749.93, each reconciled against the builder's own line items. What a buyer should do with this: Add to Cart is still enabled on all three builds, so REP will accept an order in which the central component has no published ship date at all. Ask for one before paying.

• REP official product page and configurator ↗

DelayREP

More of REP's PR-5000 rack is on pre-order than a week ago, and the Ares build now waits on four parts instead of two

REP's two rack configurators were re-read on October 7, 2026 and the shared PR-5000 components have moved deeper into pre-order. On the Ares 2.0 builder's default Ares + Rack build, four of seven line items now carry pre-order flags where two did on October 5: the crossmembers slipped from October 22 to October 28, 2026, both Rack Uprights lines (the $479.98 set and the $239.99 pair) are newly flagged for October 21, and the 1.25in pull-up bar has neither moved nor cleared from October 21. On the PR-5000 builder the default 93in / 30in build carries one part that is out of stock with no date at all — the $203.99 Flip-Down Safeties — plus the same two October 21 pre-orders, though the 93in upright set did improve, from out-of-stock on October 4 to a dated pre-order now. Build totals did not change ($1,253.93 and $4,479.91), and in every configuration the master ADD TO CART stays visible and enabled, so an enabled cart button is not evidence that the parts in your cart are in stock.

• REP PR-5000 Rack Builder ↗
• REP Ares 2.0 Builder ↗

Price changeREP

Correction: the cheapest PR-5000 you can actually build is $989.94, not the $1,233.93 we published — and the saving is partly a safety part that does not exist

We had the PR-5000's floor wrong. Our previous figure, $1,233.93, was found by varying rack height only. Sweeping the builder's full height-by-depth matrix on October 7, 2026 — all nine totals reconciled against the builder's own itemised order summary — shows depth matters more: at 16in depth the crossmembers drop from $269.99 to $229.99 and the Flip-Down Safeties line disappears entirely, removing a further $203.99. The cheapest reachable build is the 80in height at 16in depth, $989.94, which sits $510.05 below REP's published "Starting at $1,499.99" headline. Before choosing it on price, understand why it is cheap: REP publishes no Flip-Down Safeties SKU at 16in depth at all, so $203.99 of that saving is a safety component that is unavailable for that configuration rather than a discount. If you want flip-down safeties, 30in depth is the entry point and the cheapest build that can carry them is $1,233.93.

• REP PR-5000 Rack Builder ↗

Torque published four TANK SX SKUs on Oct 6, 2026: the Push Sled at $2,699.00 (SKU XTTSX-MPH), an Athlete Kit at $2,799.00, a Complete Kit at $2,870.00 and a Console at $179.00. It tops the TANK line on price and mass — 303 lb against the M3's 209 lb and the M1s's 113 lb — and is the first TANK with rear-swivel wheels, giving it four wheels and 360º turning where the M4 and MX are single-direction. Resistance reads "4 + SX Mode", five settings from one lever against three on every TANK below it. This one is genuinely new rather than a republished older listing: Shopify's record-creation date for the SX is 2026-09-15, where the M3's — a machine this index recorded as roughly 20 months old — is 2025-02-06. Two cautions before reserving. The sled's page says "SHIPPING EARLY 2027" and "Reserve Yours Now!" while both kit pages — which contain that same sled — say "In stock and ready to ship", so get your ship date in writing. And Torque publishes no load, capacity or resistance-force figure for it at all; mass and a count of settings are the only numbers on offer.

• Official Torque Fitness product page (TANK SX Push Sled) ↗
• Official Torque Fitness product page (TANK SX Complete Kit) ↗
• Torque Fitness TANK overview and compare ↗

Every SKU in Body-Solid's Ergo Wing cable-attachment line, announced Sept 23, 2026, has been repriced upward: MB612P $48.00 to $62.50, MB613N $48.00 to $62.95, MB623P $52.00 to $65.50, MB624N $54.00 to $67.95, and the 33-inch MB633N $72.00 to $87.95. This is not a promotion ending — four of the five previously sat under a struck $58.00 list price, and every new figure is above it. That struck price is gone: the MSRP row still renders its label with no value, so these are no longer presented as discounted at all. All five were verified individually on their own product pages, and none of them can currently be bought: no add-to-cart control renders on any of the five, each publishes schema.org/OutOfStock, and each shows "TEMPORARILY OUT OF STOCK" with a back-in-stock email signup, leaving an "ADD TO QUOTE" button as the only control. Worth knowing in context: Body-Solid is simultaneously discounting its larger machines, with the GSFR100 down to $4,050.00 from $5,500.00 and the GFT100's stacks down 28-30%.

• Official Body-Solid product page (MB613N) ↗
• Official Body-Solid product page (MB633N) ↗
• Official Body-Solid announcement ↗

Strength Shop published the Riot MRR Functional Trainer to its store on Oct 5, 2026, sold through a 3D configurator. The bare machine is €2,924.10 incl. tax (€2,457.23 excl.) at 230 cm with 2 x 120 kg cast-iron stacks and a 2:1 pulley ratio; the builder pre-ticks an €81.00 bar-holder pair, so the first total most buyers see is €3,005.10, and rack-mounting an existing Riot MRR costs €3,500.10 because it prices as components. Verified on the brand's page Oct 6: two visible enabled add-to-cart controls and a single JSON-LD block publishing InStock. The catch is in the options, not the price — in all four mounting modes the "150 kg" stack and the "Standard - 210 cm" height are both disabled and titled "Sold out for this configuration", so the advertised +30 kg-per-stack upgrade cannot currently be ordered and the only buildable machine is 230 cm at 2 x 120 kg. Strength Shop publishes no lead time for it; it states only "Ships from Berlin" and an arrival estimate its own page labels illustrative.

• Official Strength Shop product page ↗

WM Fabrication published a Standing Tricep Pushdown listing on Oct 5, 2026 whose own body copy reads "Chain Driven Tricep Pushdown V2 - Launching Early November" and "Placeholder Image", naming three changes: a 1.5-inch knurled handle, a better counterweight and a wider base. It shows a $3,000.00 price with a visible "Sold out" badge and publishes schema.org/OutOfStock, and there is no add-to-cart control anywhere on the page — the only path is a Request Quote form whose shipping options are freight with liftgate, freight without, or local pickup in Hickory, NC. Nothing else is published: dimensions, capacity, loading type, steel spec and warranty are all absent from the rendered page, the deep DOM and the raw HTML, so the $3,000 figure currently attaches to a machine with no verified attributes. The brand's site-wide banner states "Current lead times: 10-14 weeks", and its shipping-policy page resolves but is empty.

• Official WM Fabrication product page ↗

CoverageVesta Fitness

Garage Gym Reviews on Vesta's VForce: the ratio dial is a standout, but Coop still points most buyers to the Force USA C20

Cooper Mitchell of Garage Gym Reviews published the first full independent review of Vesta's VForce 3IN1, priced at $6,500 as tested. He called its 1:1 / 2:1 dial one of the best ratio switches he has used. It is a floating pulley that pins in to double the felt load or floats free to double cable travel, which he rated ahead of Prime Fitness's pop-pin beta on the Prodigy and the Maxima X3's mid-arm pulley, and it lets two 200 lb stacks cover what 2:1-only racks need heavier stacks for. He found two caveats the listings don't mention. The 3x3, 1-in-hole uprights join with smaller proprietary hardware, so like the C20 the rack won't mix with REP or Rogue parts. The Smith sets vertical or at 7° on linear bearings but is not counterbalanced. He also rated the free-motion arms a little clunky next to REP and the bundled accessories middling. His verdict was a good rack that he would still not pick over the Force USA C20 for most buyers, with a comparably kitted REP Ares 2.0 at around $5,500 also worth weighing. The VForce makes the most sense if you want the dial, the angle-adjustable Smith, or the slimmer wall-mount and single-stack versions. The video's description carries affiliate links to the VForce, C20 and Ares 2.0.

• Garage Gym Reviews (YouTube) — Vesta VForce Review ↗