Serious safety issue, could kill you, DON'T BUY
I purchased a Gym monster 2 around 7 month ago and we've been using it on and off and here's my honest feedback. The first couple of month, our impression was that this is the invention of the century. I even looked up the company's stock to invest in them, though it's not a public company. However, the more that we used it, the more we realised why it's an incredibly dangerous and faulty device and can never replace an old school gym device. 1- If you try bench pressing anything over 50kg, it's almost impossible to get the bar up and down without it shaking and giving you a weird feeling of "is it going to break" ? 2- When bench pressing, prepare the bar to get stuck on your chest if you couldn't finish your last rep, because the device has no way of stopping when you want it it. Sure there's a bluetooth ring ( that you need to purchase extra !!!!) that you can strap around your finger, but trust me, as you know how incredibly unreliable bluetooth devices are and they get disconnected all the time, so does Speedience's . Imagine a bar with 50kg weight, strapped with two ropes on side where it leaves you no were to escape and you're in your last rep and you can't finish it and you press the stop button on the bluetooth device and that doesn't work either. If you have no one around you to stop the machine, that's it, you're dead with a 50kg down-pulling pressure on your chest! This doesn't happen with a normal bench bar, because at the last resort, you can always just drop the bar to the side or something like that. This is such a serious issue and happen to my wife 2 times and if I wasn't home, I have no idea what would've happened. 3- None of the gym instructors in their videos ever use any weight above ~30kg and this isn't random. The fact is, the bar has two ropes and each rope is pulling the bar down from the sides. This means if you want to bench press, or any pressing, you have to maintain an even pressure on each side or otherwise it's weird. This becomes more obvious when you have over 30kg weight, it becomes impossible to maintain stability. 4- The company lovvvves to sell you things. For example, the bluetooth ring is such an important necessity that without it the device is almost useless when you're exercising without a spotter and should've been installed on all of their bars, but no, you have to purchase it separately as if it's an add-on. Or the app itself, it constantly wants to sell you their video courses or whatever. 5- The device breaks down every time they release a new version of their software and without your knowledge, you turn it on and you realise it doesn't turn on anymore. You contact the company and they send you instructions on how to open the back of the device as if you're e mechanic and have an open heart surgery on it. Why is this happening ? Well it's simple, Speedience has given money to lots of influencers to advertise it and lots of people like me have bought from different countries. But Speedience, doesn't have mechanics and repair centers across those countries because it's expensive of course to open centers, train them etc. So instead, you are their at-home mechanic. They'll send you the instructions and they'll ask you to fix it yourself, all you need is a windows machine ( Mac doesn't work), screwdrivers and tools like that, a knack for being a mechanic, and of course, free time :) This is while when you bought this device, it was probably the most expensive thing you've ever bought ( A ~$6000) and you thought an expensive device comes with a proper customer support, well, you were wrong, like I was. 6- The ropes ware out after a few month, since they're just silky threads or whatever and are designed to be very flexible, so every few month, again, you're invited to search the internet, find a video of "how to replace Speedience's ropes" , and perform an open heart surgery on the device again. 7- The device constantly logs out you out and has a terrible wifi system. This means each time you want to use it and have dedicated an hour, prepare yourself to spend 10-15 minutes constantly restarting the device hoping that maybe the next restart works and gets you connected to the internet because without internet and an account, of course you can't use the device ! So at the end, sure, it's a great invention and I will look forward to the day that a company would properly create it, but Speedience hasn't. It's faulty, its overpriced, it's dangerous and its glitchy all the time.