The NEW Freak Athlete ABX Adjustable Bench and Leg Developer Attachment Review

This is Freaky Athletes newest adjustable bench. They're calling it the 10 in one Freaky Athlete ABX. It's a adjustable bench, ladder style, stands upright, has a shorter wheelbase so it can easily move around your gym.

It's incredibly stable with this front X design foot pad and adjustable headrest that allows you to use it as a chest support, a back support, basically a multi-angle pad, auto adjust technology that actually automatically closes the gap between the seat pad and the back pad for you and leg attachment compatibility with their new leg developer. We're gonna take a look at this pre-production sample, some of my feedback about it and what you have to look forward to. So let's check it out.

Hey guys, this is Michael with the Jungle Gym Reviews. Today we're doing a hands-on, kind of first impressions video of the Freaky Athlete ABX adjustable bench. I think one of the main things actually, this X shape front foot design, which is actually probably one of the best features about this bench.

This is what provides a majority of the stability to this bench and definitely probably one of the most stable adjustable benches that I've personally used. There's a handful of other features on here. We're gonna go over the adjustable headrest, kinda chest support, the leg developer, the different attachments you can use on this. And I kinda wanna talk about what you have to look forward to when this finally drops. Now before I get into the video, if you could quickly hit that subscribe button below if you haven't already, it's gonna continue to help us grow the channel and make sure you get notified when we post our weekly reviews. And now two reviews a week throughout the rest of 2025.

And as always, if you're interested in purchasing this after the review, please check out that affiliate link in the description below. This is a early production version that was sent to me by Freak Athlete actually to provide some feedback on, but also to highlight for their pre-order, which I believe is live today. So you can pre-order this bench for end of the year delivery, end of 2025, early 2026, if you wanna understand. But do note, a lot of things I'm gonna talk about because this is a early production version, these are not necessarily final design details. Some of the things like a seat padding is actually gonna be a little bit thicker.

But in overall, the dimensions, the functionality, that's really what I wanna focus on. Neuron handle, kickstand design, vertical storage. It does have little UHMW pads so that it's stable while in the vertical position, ladder style, starting at zero, so it's flat all the way up to 85 degrees. So you have a zero, 15, 30, 45, 60, 75 and 85 degrees. And it actually has the laser cut angle adjustments. And you'll see here even a name for which exercise you should be doing this.

This one, 30 degree sit up. It does have dual knurled handles on the ladder style. So you have a couple of different ways you can move it. But you can grab from either side and it's really easy to slide up and down. This thing like passes the incline wobble test with like flying colors.

So that's absolutely fantastic. And it's really impressive when you see the weight of this, which I don't know offhand, but I can feel compared to like the 110 pounds of the rep blackwing I have and some other benches I've owned the Rogue AB 3.0 I've owned in the past. This feels probably about 20, 30 pounds lighter and the actual wheel base, meaning the distance between the wheels front to back is significantly shorter. So I'd guess probably somewhere in the six to 12 inches compared to similar one of those full size benches, very similar to what Rep calls the zero gap.

This is called the auto adjust technology. There is no gap here between the three different pads. And that's what makes this bench, one of the things actually that makes this bench so cool. It automatically is no gap. And as if you watch the gap, as you adjust the seat up, you will see the gap move forward and change so that it basically is closed. And when they want to go down, if you watch the gap again, you'll see the seat kind of move out of the way of the back pad and then slowly closed. So when you're in flat position, you get this nice big long pad. And then, you know, for me, as someone who's six foot two comes down, tries to bench, I have still a few more inches headroom, few more inches down lower. If I want to move back and basically not use the seat, I can do that. My butt is now on the back pad and on what they call the headrest. Now they partnered with exponent edge, which you've probably seen this style some years ago, is very simple design, but is so extremely functional.

And it's so amazing. So this is simply just some sort of magnetic pin that holds these two pads together via this adjustable bracket. And when the pin is not in, the headrest slash what I'm calling chest support can now move freely.

So it's got four different positions that it can lock into. And the tolerances on it are actually really great. So this thing's got no play in the pad itself because this pin and the holes and the metal are thick. I mean, if you look at this metal, this is over a quarter inch just thick steel.

So both the rod that goes into the headrest slash chest support pad and the actual brackets that are holding this pin in. I mean, that is a big boy. We actually did a little bit of a review of the Mikolo Bastet Bench. And I can tell you it did not have anywhere near the quality that this thing had. It's probably a little bit cheaper than this, but I just want to say this like chest support, literally whatever you want on it, do this for science, but you want to stand on it, you want to bounce on it. This is not endorsed by a freak athlete. If I was holding 200 pounds of weight, this is not going to go anywhere.

Really, I mean, just like really overbuilt, but purposely. So this pad is pretty cool because then you can do things like chest supported rows. If you move it out of the way completely in that setting, you can do things like a seated military press where your shoulder blades do get above the back pad. Maybe they take into consideration some of my feedback, which I asked it to be possible to make this a little bit shorter for shorter people to make sure they can really get their scapula above that to have a little bit more free range of motion like you get on those like standard stationary benches at the gym. I've done things in the past where you can even use this as like some sort of back pad even, but technically you don't actually have to, kind of like lever arms, you don't have to use the whole slot to lock it in.

So you just have to have like use it as almost like a little stopper. I don't know that they will officially condone this, but that's one way I found you can get basically more adjustments than the four here. You wanna move the seat down, this angle is now flat. You wanna move it down even more. It's a different angle.

Depending on the angle of this bracket or the angle of the seat, it basically just gives you the option to have 15 to 20 different angle options for this pad besides the ability to move it around easily besides the auto adjust technology to keep the gaps closed. I can move this and turn this in a pretty small space. When you get those big long, heavy benches, you're picking it up like this and you have to move way over here and way out of the way just to move it around two feet. This thing is moves very easily.

Storage is easy. UHMW are similar padding on the feet. The X design, as I mentioned even, other benches that have more of like a triangular design, the X design, actually gives you like more stability points on the ground.

Now the last big thing about this bench if the chest pad and the headrest and everything weren't cool enough is this attachment tube. This is becoming the industry standard. This is going to be this 1.75 by 1.75 tube sleeve ID. So inner diameter that basically is this now kind of universal standard for bench attachments. I tell everyone now I recommend in all my videos about benches. If you're going to buy adjustable bench than them going forward, I highly recommend getting one with this tube sleeve that then accepts different attachments. They have their leg developer not to be confused with the leg developer from the Hyper Pro, but when you put the bench into the LD 15 degrees that is for to accept this leg developer attachment. It is a bench attached leg extension leg curl that has wheels so you can wheel it around and store it easily.

You line it up, slide the tube in, pull the poppin, lock it in, tie the knob, just grab the handle here and you can move it around however you please. Just like with their Hyper Pro exact same style, the leg extension pads adjust up and down. They have these handles, they do not change angle, they are very lightly knurled, but they're actually like ergonomically correct for leg curls. It is prone meaning laying and use these handles. Now my one complaint with these is I actually wish they were flipped down a little bit and a little bit straighter, but after talking with them the reason they did this is because when you go to bench and someone wants to tuck their feet under that it would hit it if it were in the straight setting. So that's a trade-off I guess I will take to still have some handles here to grab, but also not sacrifice when you want to bench and tuck your feet under here in the inclined setting.

Look at that, wow, would you guess it's pretty much perfectly matching the angle where my heels would go. So that was the trade-off they made as with some of these things there are trade-offs. Speaking of trade-offs as far as how the leg extension leg curl attachment feels, I like to sit back just that little bit and just get that little extra pre-stretch here because technically then my legs are tucked under the angle of my knees a little bit more than sitting like this. So I like to sit back, do this the resistance curve slightly will taper off at the top. I would say the leg extension is like an eight out of ten and the hamstring curl is closer to like a six or seven because it's very hard here in the beginning. Once you get towards this contraction position at the top at the very top the weight kind of falls off and is like non-existent the last six inches four inches or so.

So it'll be like pretty hard up to a point and then it just kind of falls off. The cool thing about this just like their leg developer attachment on their Hyper Pro is you can add on a cable pulley attachment to make this cable driven. A little pulley here you can route a cable to this mount it to a weight stack. One of the other cool things on here they have this belt squat attachment which is already integrated into all this.

You've probably noticed these little feet and wondered what that was for. When it unloaded you pull this out threaded poppin slide this down pull the handle connect a carabiner to whichever height you want lift up the little spring on the kickstand and flips out of the way and you're doing belt squats and then you literally just sit back in the movement and it you know it pulls you very much like a pendulum squat because you're kind of supported it pulls you down and in not straight down. I can get you know ATG super low super deep in the squat movement because it's pulling me in so I don't have really have to fight with my torso to maintain upright and when I'm done pull out the kickstand set it down disconnect and you're out. If you don't want to use the belt squat attachment you don't have to use it and you still get leg extension leg curl but you get a third movement included in there for the same price. This thing isn't that heavy but it's got the little wide stability bracket on the bottom so that it rests upright wherever you want to put it. Now the other two things I do want to talk about real quick that they include are a dip attachment so dips you know a very I would say bare bones attachment and just like the other attachments D10 pin locks in the hole it's just a set width it's not angled it's just straight change the different angle to whatever feels good for you to be able to do even like decline dips and one of my personal favorites is the decline leg roller so this allows you to do a couple different things they actually have three different height settings so you can kind of do a sign your torso and your legs how long it is this actually also adjusts up and down you can do whatever angle decline sit-ups you like I like 45 some people like a little bit lower or for things like decline bench you know it's a little bit harder just because there's still enough of a decline here at 15 degrees so this would be like a minus 15 decline to where even though the head slash seat is flat my torso and where I'm pressing from is still decline you can still for sure decline bench press on this I don't know that they count decline bench press as one of their 10 movements but I think it's still a very realistic option for people right now the overall length of all the pads in the flat position is 50 inches 5 0 and the width is approximately 12 inches wide the pad the seat pad goes from 12 inches wide at the widest to about 7 inches at the narrowest the adjustable headrest slash back support pad is 13 and a half inches again by 12 inches wide the main back pad is then 23 inches by 12 inches wide and the seat length is 13 and a half inches so if they nail the price point on this and in the some of the attachments this really is going to be potentially one of the benches to beat they've I can just tell this thing is quality if you if you didn't tell me who made this bench I would think it's right up there with every other major pop to your bench that I've tested or used or anything the only other complaint that I really noticed in this is the seat locking mechanism right now they use this little like spring and gear kind of wobbles a little bit when it's in this all the way back setting I know they're actually changing this to linear bearing like trolley roller this will still auto adjust in and out but then it won't have this play right now this only goes to somewhere in the 20 degree range final version it will be somewhere either 30 maybe 35 degrees it's got a little spring here to adjust the seat and flat some of the powder coat and stuff I know they're going to update and I'm sure there'll be a handful of other quality and or quality of life things they're going to update so overall I'm excited for this bench and I'm excited to see all the different creative ways people can use this in their home gym so guys that's it for today's review of the freak athlete abx adjustable bench as always if you have any questions or comments please leave them down below I'll be happy to answer at least try thanks for tuning in the jungle gym reviews we'll see you next time take it easy peace