An independent research site for home gym equipment in the US and Canada. We compile what manufacturers publish, we mark what we could not confirm, and we do not pretend to have tested anything ourselves.
GymChecked is a one-person research project about home gym equipment sold in the United States and Canada. It exists to answer a narrow question well: given what the manufacturer actually publishes, how do these machines differ, and what should you check before spending money?
We do not own a testing facility, we do not have a staff of reviewers, and we have not used most of the equipment described here. What we do is read, compare and record — and then show our work.
Four steps, applied to every product page. None of them involve physical testing.
Our method is documentary: we read the manufacturer's own pages, compare what they publish, and say plainly where the record runs out. There is no test bench behind this site.
We start from models the manufacturer currently sells in North America. If a model is withdrawn, its page stays online but is marked Discontinued and removed from every recommendation list.
Specifications, warranty terms and list prices come from the brand's product page, comparison chart or warranty documents. We record the date we checked them.
We put models side by side on the things a buyer can actually verify: footprint, capacity, hole sizes, warranty length, price. Comparisons use published figures only.
If a brand does not publish a figure, or we could not reach their site, the field says which of the two it was and stays unconfirmed. We never fill gaps with estimates.
Official fact
A figure the manufacturer publishes — dimensions, capacity, warranty length, list price. Each carries the date we checked it.
Editorial analysis
Pros, cons and "best for" lines are our judgement, based on published specifications and how the category works. They are opinion, clearly labelled as ours.
Unconfirmed
A field we could not verify. We say whether the brand did not publish it or whether we could not reach their site — and we leave it unconfirmed rather than estimated.
Manufacturer pages change without notice, prices move weekly, and a page we checked in November may be out of date by spring. Every product page shows the date of its last check; treat older dates accordingly.
If something here is wrong — a specification, a warranty term, a status — tell us and we will correct it and note the correction. Corrections take priority over new coverage.Contact us.
This site is not funded by brands. There are no sponsored posts, no paid placements and, at present, no affiliate revenue. Outbound links exist so you can check a manufacturer's current price and specification yourself. If that ever changes, the disclosure on every page will say so before any link changes.
Every pick is a real, on-sale model with its verification status shown.