Fully Loaded, Off-the-Shelf Lever Arms: PRx Performance Build Limitless Halo Arms Review

Hey guys, this is Michael with the Jungle Gym Reviews. Today we're reviewing the PRX performance Build Limitless Halo Arms. These are PRX's off the shelf fully loaded lever arms that are made for any 3x3 rack, Imperial or metric with either a 5 eighth or 1 inch hole but what really makes these special is the ability to stop or lock them in 17 different vertical positions but then also in 9 different horizontal positions and additionally can be unlocked to allow the arms to swivel or swing laterally as well which really just allows for almost unlimited types of uses, training or exercises based on what you can think of in your head. Every single part of these lever arms has been designed with a purpose to be one of the best sets that money can buy and certainly are geared towards home gym owners who want to maximize functionality in a small space so let's check it out. These are the PRX Build Limitless Halo Arms.

These are unique in the fact that this is a pretty fully loaded, fully kitted lever arm boom straight from the factory. At its core it's made for 3x3 racks. Right here I have it on my iron bowl strength rack. I've used it on my Titan racks. This will work on 3x3 metric which is what this is or Imperial so racks like Rogue.

It'll work either way. These arms are special in the fact that it's not just your regular lever arms both in price. These cost about $15.75 for the set as you see here. That's everything you see, multi grip handle with the integrated weight horn.

They do have options for different handles that we'll talk about here shortly but this is way more complicated looking and upgrading than your typical lever arms which literally just have a fixed single point mount to the rack and just swivel from one point and when you want to move the height of it you have to grab it, grab the pop pin, hope your fingers don't fall off and kind of stick it here and then all you get is another swivel. No, you'll see from the get go this thing. This first got popularized in the last couple years by a company called Vendetta Strength and Athletics. You've actually probably recently watched our video and if you haven't I'll link it below. From last week which showed people how they can essentially build their own version very similar to this. More DIY though and buying the individual parts and pieces. This they package everything together to pretty much be the ultimate lever arm that you could need and you just hit click buy and you don't need to source any additional parts on your own. This bracket adapter I think is like the main how the magic happens in this. You'll see there's actually 17 different positions here including one to actually lock the arm in.

So these 17 positions do a couple different things. On the bottom of the arm you actually see there's a little like UHMW or some sort of plastic here. That is essentially a stopper for this little D10 pin. So that's meant to go on this D10 pin and rest on it. And now what we've done is we've chosen a bottom height slash starting position for this lever arm. So whether it's stored up on an angle or you want to start a movement let's say like a bench press from a certain height, a row, whatever the exercises you're looking to start. You put that in the spot you want it to stop in and it's going to stay there. So that's what's cool about these brackets is they've now just added so much more functionality to lever arms because rather than the arm just automatically swiveling down like most generic off-the-shelf arms and this is what the starting and stopping position is this bracket style with the stopper has now allowed you to choose the exact height you wanted at. There's also holes integrated into the arm itself into this bracket so you can lock these in a certain position.

So let's say you want to lock them about right here. So now it's locked, now it's not moving up or down. This is a safety locking position so if you wanted to do something do things like let's say pull-ups from the arms, put the arms straight, bring this down to waist height, throw some bars on there and do some dips.

You could do that to make sure the arm is not going to move up or down because it's fully locked in that hole. That in itself is really cool. Two, I will say the best part about this, I actually think it's the rollers. It's the actual mechanism to move this up and down your rack. So they have these nicely knurled handles on both sides and this little pop pin. In addition to this secondary locking magnetic pin, this is how it actually fits 5 eighths and 1 inch holes which is so cool.

So you'll see this rack here has key holes, actually both a 1 inch hole and a 5 eighth inch hole which is almost the perfect example to show this on. Once I remove the little stopper magnetic pin, put that off to the side, you grab both knurled handles and at the same time you just kind of stick your fingers here and you are now able to slide this up and down the rack. These rollers they have, I don't think they're metal, I think they're like a really hard plastic, spins so well. So despite the fact that these arms are heavy, probably weigh like, you know, 50 pounds each arm, when you grab each of these knurled handles, you can slide it up and down relatively easily. I mean, don't get me wrong, this thing is heavy, but compared to any other lever arms and compared to even the Vendetta brackets that I showed in that video I mentioned earlier, those don't really roll as smoothly as this.

This feels like it's meant to be. I've also used some rogue lever arms in the past which have a similar sort of roller system. This PRX set works just as well, feels like a very high quality system. So I really, really like these. Like that's pretty cool. And it's super easy lock and then just put in your little magnetic pin. Now that we're actually here talking about pins, this is one thing I wish they would include with all of the D10 pins. This is for the trolley locking which I use. These, for the price, really need to be swapped out. These are just very generic D10 pins. I think you can buy them. I think it's like $100 for the set, but honestly, I think for the price for how well everything else works on here, they should be included.

But if that's going to raise the base price of this, fine, I'll survive with these. So the adjustable starting stop bracket, awesome. Number one, number two, the rollers work really well. Number three, cool thing about this is swivel slash locking slash unlocking bracket, which is here. So not only does the arm go up and down like a traditional lever arm, now this bracket here allows for nine different positions you can lock it in horizontally. There's a pop pin. And we've seen this actually on the Force USA C20 as well with the articulating arms where there's this little pin that you twist. And now it's unlocked.

It's locked in an unlocked mode, which allows this to now swivel. There's actually a UHMW pad here on the side. So it's not just metal on metal. Again, they PRX really did their homework when it came to the quality, making sure that they were not going to cut any corners and just again have metal on metal here. So no, they have a big thick like UHMW or similar pad behind this bracket. So as it's sliding, then your paint and stuff's not going to wear over time. So you have this option to do this swinging swivel mode. Or again, there are nine positions here that you can lock it in. Well, I think that's really cool.

And on paper, nine seems like a lot. I don't really find the outside positions super helpful. I might not be very creative, but like what am I?

I don't really know what I'm doing here. So you can lock it in these outside positions, but I only find pretty much the parallel when the arms are parallel to each other, position to be helpful. I think where these are really shine is locking them towards the insides. Is when you have both arms, you put them both to the inside position and now you've effectively changed the angles of the grips. So when you're pressing, or even if you used the closed grips before, now you're at like an even closer grip than you had prior. So this is nice for things like rowing. This is nice for things like benching to have them locked in the inside mode. And again, you could lock them in any one of nine positions left to right, 17 positions up and down. Or when you do the locked in the unlocked mode, then they're free swinging. So the free swinging in theory is like I think a big selling point of these, especially when we're talking about, I don't know, sorts of pressing and then you can do like converging, diverging.

So I think it feels really good. However, there's really only like a handful of movements where I find this to be practical for them to be in this free motion mode because it's just not super repeatable. So if you train in a very like dynamic way, and I don't know, you wanna move these up and out and do some sort of like different swings and stuff, like sure, maybe it's helpful, but I don't think it's very practical in actuality. And in that video I did of the build your own lever arms, I told people just to forego the Kaisen, Jimpin adapters, which essentially do the same thing. So there's one thing I would like to see with these arms is them offer potentially a version without these that could be a little bit cheaper. Again, it wouldn't have any of the swivel brackets.

So that would be one of my recommendations for them. This swivel mechanism is helpful to get a change up on your grip, but with a multi-grip handle, I think that already gets you like 80% of the way there. They do offer some different versions with different handles, which I think is some of the things I really recommend.

One of them being the Megalith handles from Warman's Strength. These are articulating handles 360 degrees. So they articulate fully 360 degrees this way because they have these little bearing washers in there.

So buttery smooth 360 degrees and the handle itself rotates with the same sort of bearing washers 360 degrees. This ends up being really nice when you want to press, pull, whatever it is, like very naturally, and I would say a little less rigid when it comes to like specific angles and stuff. This is the straight handle is what I would recommend pretty much any straight handle movement. You want this rather than some sort of fixed handle, especially when you're doing rotational things like this, you start and now your hand is twisting. Your hand has now fully rotated 180 degrees, but the handle hasn't moved. So you're just getting all that friction on your calluses, on your hands. But that's where these Warman handles come into play.

It's because when you have these on the end, it rotates with you based on the actual lever is swinging, the arc of the lever, plus however your own individual biomechanics work with all that. If you do buy the Warman Megaleth handle, they will include this, which is a weight plate horn that is mounted separately with this little, actually surprisingly heavy neural knob. So then you have a weight plate horn to load plates and you have your handle. So I highly recommend these handles if you're interested. However, I wouldn't recommend them over the multi-grip, the multi-grip form in general. One reason I recommend is literally just because of the multi-grips, because then you have a straight, then you have some sort of neutral, then you have an angled, and then depending on how you play with the actual locking here, you get anywhere from three to 10 different angle grips with these versus this.

You really only get a straight handle and then maybe one angle here as well. And this is a upgrade where it costs another about $100 or so. It is $16.79 for the Megaleth handle version. Again, I do recommend the multi-grip as much as I love these Megaleth handles and I have them on my personal lever arms. I don't think for most people over the multi-grip handles, I think it's a worthwhile upgrade just because of the different grips. The other one they do offer is one I do not have here, but something very similar. This is a one inch version for one inch whole racks, but they offer their own straight handle.

It'll just be just like this. It'll go in, it's a fixed handle, so it does not rotate. So my same complaints about trying to do dynamic movements with the multi-grip handle are here.

However, you just get a nice solid fixed handle, which is definitely nice for certain movements, just not for every single move in depending on how you need to rotate your wrist or your hands, et cetera. Now, one of the major downsides about this, everything was very well thought out from here, both in the functionality and the quality. However, my biggest gripe with this is, these are five eighth inch holes. A lot of people have one inch whole racks and to be able to offer a one inch whole version of this would be much nicer.

Now I have heard from PRX, either on their social media or similar, that sometime in the next three to six months, they're releasing a one inch version of this. Then to me, it's worth it for a lot of people because right now, having a one inch rack in my main rack room, a bunch of other one inch attachments, handles, I don't have anything to put here on the five eighths and you're actually limited in aftermarket attachments on the five eighths. So while this is great, if you have a five eighth rack, and you spend $1,600 and you have a one inch whole rack, you want a one inch whole set of lever arms. Even though, yes, this trolley, the whole system, works on a one inch hole as far as the actual mounting to the rack, all the attachments and everything else you use is five eighth inch. So that to me again is a major problem because now all my mutant metals handles, all my leg roller attachments, all my bars and brackets to connect these two arms or do all these fun things, I can't use them because this is five eighth inch. However, there is one aftermarket solution.

This was shown at home gym con. It's two keyhole adapters. Five eighths, just like this iron bowl strength rack, you'll see the keyhole of one inch and five eighth. Same thing goes for this adapter, one inch and five eighth. This allows you to then do exactly this.

If you have a one inch rack and you want to use five eighth inch attachments, or in this case, you have five eighth inch rack and you want to use one inch attachments, I can now grab my one inch mutant metals handle, thread that in, and this adapter then has now allowed me to use a one inch attachment on a five eighth inch rack. So this is awesome. This is really cool. This is really nifty. This was a version I took home from home gym con. So this is just a prototype, not the final version. I think they're gonna have these in the next few months.

So that is huge. However, that's still more of like an aftermarket solution. I think it'll work for a lot of people, but then let's say if you have weight horns that are one inch or other attachments, you have to get one or more of these so it quickly can become, I don't know, let's say a little bit more of a hassle than it's worth. But in the interim, just for swapping a pair of handles, like I said, I think this is super functional and creative and I love seeing these smaller companies come together and create products that have solutions to problems that we all need. Now, overall, what do I think about this for the price, what I recommend it? I think it's worth the price as far as quality and functionality.

Do I think it's for everyone? Absolutely not, because I don't think, A, I don't think most people need lever arms unless you really wanna simulate machines. And if you have a specific use in mind, like, okay, I wanna do machine bench, I like machine rows, I like machine pressing, I wanna do converging this, diverging that, that's where something like this comes into mind. If you really maybe only wanna do one movement, I would almost suggest to do the buy the off-the-shelf lever arms, that's just the cheapest for you. And you can at least then buy that and kind of figure out your use for lever arms from there. If you wanna upgrade to something like this, that is the biggest feature, which are those original Vendetta strength and athletic brackets, that's another $400 to $500. But I think that gets you most of the way there and right there, then that's about $1,000. So you still save about $600 going the DIY route. Again, I don't think the swivel unlocking, locking or free motion lateral movement is enough to be worth it to me in particular. It's a nice feature, but I would rather have the option to remove that and just have their brackets, rollers, their handles, maybe for let's say $11 or $1,200. So overall, fantastic product, I think it works very well, but you might need to just consider your use case and maybe or not you can build them based on what you need for a little bit cheaper than this. So guys, that's it for this review of the PRX, build limitless halo arms. 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 to Juggler Gym Reviews. We'll see you next time. Take it easy, peace.