Everymate 5 Bar Rotating Barbell Holder Review: Is the Spin Worth the Premium?
For years my barbells lived in the corner of the garage, leaning against the drywall. That is not a storage system. That is a pile.
The problem with a pile is not that it looks bad. It is that the bar you want is always the one at the back. You end up dragging a 45 pound bar out of the way with one hand to get at an 11 pound one, in a corner, usually in socks, usually with a kid standing next to you waiting. Multiply that by every session and eventually you stop getting the bar out at all.
That is the actual pain a barbell holder solves, and most of them only solve half of it. A fixed block gets the bars upright and off the floor, but the retrieval problem stays exactly where it was. The bar you want is still behind two others. A rotating holder is supposed to fix the other half: spin the platter, bring your bar to the front, pull it straight out.
I am Mike Behrens. Twenty plus years as an independent professional wrestler, married since 2012, three daughters, home gym owner for over a decade. This is the Everymate 5 bar rotating barbell holder, it runs around eighty dollars, and this is my honest first look.
Watch the full unboxing and first impressions here: https://youtu.be/kUKIxx1rRxk
Why I Tested This
Three bars is what forced this.
For most of a decade I owned exactly one barbell, an old Body Solid bar I have had for over ten years. It is beat up. It looks a little rusty. It still works, so it is good enough for me. Then my daughters got old enough to want in, so I bought them the Everymate 5kg technique bar to learn the pattern and the Everymate 10kg junior bar so they could actually load it.
That is three bars in a garage that already holds a rack, a bench and a treadmill, and all three were leaning in the same corner. Barbell storage went from something I never thought about to a daily headache, and it stopped being only my headache. If my wife or one of my kids wants to train, they should be able to walk in and grab the right bar without moving two other bars first.
So the question I brought to this rack was narrow. Does the spin actually solve retrieval, or is it a novelty you pay extra for?
What You Actually Get
Five 2 inch Olympic sockets on a rotating platter. Straight bars, curl bars, tricep bars. Five slots, not six, not ten. Everymate sells this as one variant of a parent listing that also carries fixed 5, 6, 9 and 10 bar versions, so check that you are on the rotating one before you buy.
360 degree rotation on ball bearings. Everymate calls the mechanism maintenance free. That is their word, not mine, and it is the claim a year of use will either confirm or kill.
500 pound tested capacity. That is across all five slots, not per slot. For context, Everymate's own fixed 5 bar version is rated to 300 pounds and the 10 bar rotating version is rated to 600.
Footprint: 16.9 by 16.9 inches, 11.48 inches tall. Roughly two square feet of floor. Hold that number, because the listing itself does not agree with it, and I get to that below.
Plastic sleeve liners inside every socket. Your bar sleeves ride on plastic, not bare steel. That is the difference between a holder you can use daily and one that slowly grinds the finish off the bars you paid for.
Four rubber feet. They slide on by hand. They are anti slide, not anti tip. Nothing bolts to a wall and nothing anchors to the floor.
Alloy steel with a black powder coat.
Price: $79.99 on the day I published this, September 1, 2026. Amazon moves prices on this listing constantly, so treat every dollar figure in this review as a snapshot from that date and not a current quote. Check the listing before you buy. I am not going to pretend to police a number Amazon changes on a whim.
Assembly: essentially none. It came out of the carton already built and already spinning. Slide four rubber covers onto the base and you are finished. I had bars in it within five minutes.
That last one is worth flagging, because I expected the opposite. My own pre filming notes said the box was narrower than the assembled unit, so plan on filming a build. Wrong. It ships assembled.
What It Was Like Out of the Box
I pulled it straight out of the box and the first thing out of my mouth was that "it looks like a giant revolver."
That is exactly what it looks like. Five chambers in a circle on a heavy round base. I gave it a spin before a single bar went in and it moved better than I expected at this price. On camera: "spins pretty good. Pretty slick, actually."
The build reads honest. Black powder coat with no flaking, welds that look like somebody cared, and the four rubber covers snapped on as feet without a fight. No hardware bag, no Allen key, no ninety minutes on the garage floor.
Then I loaded it with what I actually own, and that is where it got more interesting.
The Three Things the Listing Does Not Tell You
1. It spins worse when it is nearly empty.
This is the finding, and I have not seen anyone else publish it. I dropped the old Body Solid bar into the first socket, gave the platter a turn, and said it out loud: it "doesn't rotate as good with only one bar in there." Add the junior bar and the technique bar and the rotation smooths out.
Mechanically that tracks. Mass on the platter settles the bearing and keeps the turn even instead of catching. But it means every empty rack spin demo you will see for this product, including the one in the first thirty seconds of my own video, is showing you the worst case. If you are buying this to hold two bars, you are buying it at its roughest.
2. Everymate does not publish what the rack weighs. Anywhere.
I checked the feature bullets, the spec table and the details section on the Amazon listing. There is no item weight. Not in pounds, not in kilograms.
On a rotating rack that is not a trivia gap, it is the safety spec. Nothing bolts down. The rubber feet stop it from sliding, not from tipping. The only thing keeping five loaded barbells upright is the mass of the base, and Everymate will not tell you what that mass is. Rogue publishes 59.3 pounds for its 9 bar holder without being asked. I did not put this one on a scale on camera, so I am not going to guess a number. It is first on the list for the follow up.
3. The listing gives two different footprints for the same rack.
The feature bullet says 16.9 by 16.9 by 11.48 inches. The product dimensions field on the same page says 11.48 deep by 16.9 wide by 11.48 high. Those are not the same object. One describes a square base and the other describes something rectangular.
This is the second Everymate rack I have reviewed where the Amazon listing contradicts itself on size, which makes it a pattern rather than a typo. If you are planning a corner down to the inch, measure against the larger number and give yourself margin.
Real World Use
Loaded with three bars, in a corner, it does the job I wanted it to do.
The bars stand sleeve down, so the knurling never touches anything and the sleeves ride on plastic. The base felt planted enough that it was not going anywhere with one bar in it. But I want to be precise about what I did and did not test. I own three barbells. I could not fill all five slots, which means I could not run the full load tip test and I could not run a fully loaded spin. Those are the two tests that would actually settle this product, and neither of them happened. That is the honest limit of a first look.
What I can tell you is that the retrieval problem is solved. Instead of shuffling bars, I spin the platter, the bar I want comes to the front, and it lifts straight out. My kids can do that. My wife can do that. That was the entire point.
One caution nobody mentions: check your ceiling. A 7 foot 2 inch Olympic bar standing in an 11.5 inch base puts the top of the bar right around 8 feet 1 inch. Plenty of basements cannot stand a bar up at all.
And no, I would not recommend just standing there spinning it, even though that is exactly what I did.
Pros and Cons, Real Talk
Pros
Ships assembled. Four rubber feet and you are training.
The rotation genuinely solves bar retrieval in a corner.
Plastic lined sockets protect your bar sleeves.
500 pound rating, well above the 300 pounds on the fixed version.
Sleeve down vertical storage keeps knurl off the floor and off other bars.
Around eighty dollars for a mechanism nobody else sells anywhere near that price.
Cons
Rotation is noticeably rougher with only one or two bars loaded.
No published rack weight, on a product whose stability depends entirely on base mass.
The Amazon listing contradicts itself on the footprint.
Two square feet is a lot of floor for five bars. Everymate's fixed 6 bar uses a fraction of it.
Only 10 ratings. This is early product with a thin track record.
Nothing anchors. Rubber feet only.
Per slot, it is the most expensive rack in Everymate's own lineup.
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How It Compares
The comparison that matters is not Rogue. Nobody cross shopping an eighty dollar rack is also putting Rogue money on the table. The real alternative set is Everymate's own lineup and the corner you are using right now.
Everymate 5 bar rotating (this one) - 5 slots, rotates on ball bearings, 500 lb rated, 16.9 x 16.9 x 11.48 in, $79.99, $16.00 per slot
Everymate 5 bar fixed - 5 slots, no rotation, 300 lb rated, $64.98, $13.00 per slot
Everymate 6 bar fixed - 6 slots, no rotation, 400 lb rated, 9.3 x 6.2 x 6.2 in, $75.99, $12.67 per slot
Everymate 10 bar rotating - 10 slots, rotates on ball bearings, 600 lb rated, 23.57 x 23.57 x 11.3 in, $102.99, $10.30 per slot
Rogue 9 Bar Holder 2.0 - 9 slots, no rotation, 18 x 18 x 8.5 in, 59.3 lb, $185.00, $20.56 per slot
Those figures are from September 1, 2026, the day I published this. Amazon moves them constantly, so the shape of the comparison is what matters, not the exact dollars.
Read that list honestly and it does not flatter the 5 bar.
Against Everymate's fixed 5 bar, the spin cost about fifteen dollars on the day I checked, and it also buys a capacity bump from 300 to 500 pounds. That is a fair trade at that spread.
Against Everymate's 10 bar rotating, the math falls apart. About twenty three dollars more, that day, bought five more slots and 100 more pounds of rating with the same rotating mechanism. Per slot that is 10.30 against 16.00. The only real reason to choose the 5 bar over it is floor space, 16.9 inches square against 23.57 inches square. If you have the corner, buy the 10.
Against the fixed 6 bar, you were paying a few dollars more for one fewer slot and giving up a rack that hides in under three quarters of a square foot. You are buying rotation and nothing else.
And against the corner: the corner is free, and the corner is why my old bar is rusty.
Who This Is For (and Who Should Skip It)
Buy it if:
You keep three to five bars and they currently live in a corner
More than one person in your house uses the gym
You cannot or will not drill into your walls
Retrieval, not storage, is your actual complaint
Skip it if:
You own two bars. Buy the fixed version and keep the difference.
You have room for the 10 bar. Same mechanism, far better per slot.
Floor space is your tightest constraint. The fixed 6 bar wins on footprint.
Your ceiling is under about 8 feet 2 inches.
FAQ
Does the Everymate 5 bar holder really rotate 360 degrees?
Yes. Ball bearings, full rotation, and it turned smoothly straight out of the box. Everymate calls the mechanism maintenance free. Worth knowing before you buy: it spins better loaded than nearly empty.
How many barbells does it hold?
Five, in 2 inch Olympic sockets. Straight bars, curl bars and tricep bars.
Does it need assembly?
Practically none. It arrives built. You slide four rubber feet onto the base and that is the whole job.
What is the weight capacity?
Everymate lists 500 pounds tested across all five slots. There is no published per slot number, and I did not load it to capacity.
How much floor space does it take?
About two square feet. The feature bullet says 16.9 by 16.9 inches and a separate field on the same listing says 16.9 by 11.48. Plan for the larger number.
How much does the rack itself weigh?
Everymate does not publish it, which on a freestanding rotating rack is the number I most want to see. I am putting it on a scale for the follow up.
Will it hold a trap bar or a safety squat bar?
The sockets take 2 inch sleeves, so a standard sleeve fits. Whether five specialty bars with fat sleeves fit at once is untested. I only own three bars.
The Verdict
This is a bar stand. Nothing super fancy about it. It holds your bars, it organizes your gym, it makes the space look a little nicer, and it is something that had been lacking in my space for quite some time.
At around eighty dollars it earns its place if retrieval is your real problem and you keep three or more bars. If you keep two, buy the fixed version. If you have the floor space, buy the 10 bar. Those are not hedges, they are the honest read on Everymate's own price list.
What I cannot tell you yet is whether the bearing holds up. Maintenance free is a claim only a year answers, and a carousel with a bearing has a failure mode a welded block does not have. I said on camera that I would come back with an updated review, and I will.
The reason any of this matters is small, and it is not really about the rack. A gym my daughters can walk into and use without moving 45 pounds of steel out of the way is a gym they will actually use. Order in a space is what makes it available to the people you are leading. "Let all things be done decently and in order." Sometimes that looks like a spinning piece of steel in the corner of a garage.
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