Everymate 6 Bar Holder Review: Six Barbells in Under a Square Foot

For years my barbells lived in the corner. Not on a rack, not on a wall, just leaning against the drywall where they could scuff each other and slide sideways every time somebody bumped them. I told myself it was fine because it was free.

If you own a home gym, floor space is the currency you are actually spending. Not money. Space. Every rack, bench and stand you add takes a bite out of the room you have left to train in, and the stuff that ends up in the corner is the stuff that gets ignored, rusted and eventually replaced.

I have been a home gym owner for over a decade, an independent professional wrestler for more than twenty years, and I have three daughters who are now old enough to want to lift. That last part is why I suddenly had three barbells instead of one. This is the Everymate 6 barbell vertical rack, and this is my honest first look.

Watch the full unboxing and first impressions here:https://youtu.be/gjCK0J6-Ipk

Why I Tested This

The bar collection is what forced this.

For most of a decade I owned exactly one barbell. Then I bought my daughters the Everymate 5kg technique bar so they could learn the movement, and then the Everymate 10kg junior bar so they could actually load it. That is three bars in a two-car garage that already has a rack, a bench and a treadmill in it. Three bars leaning in the same corner is not a storage system, it is a pile.

So the job here is narrow and I want to be clear about it. This is a $76 piece of steel whose entire purpose is to hold barbells upright and take up as little floor as possible. It does not make you stronger. It is not exciting. As I said in the video, "nothing fancy about it, just a basic barbell stand that's going to hold some barbells." The only questions worth asking are whether it is solid, how much space it eats, and whether it stays standing.

What You Actually Get

Capacity: six Olympic bars. Six sockets sized for 2 inch sleeves. Everymate specifically lists straight bars, curl bars, trap bars and safety squat bars, which is more than most cheap holders claim. Whether all six fit at once with fat specialty sleeves is a separate question and I get to it below.

Footprint: 11.35 inches by 9.3 inches, 6.2 inches tall. That is the number that matters most, and it is the one the listing gets wrong twice. More on that in a second, but the short version is that this thing occupies less than three quarters of a square foot of your floor.

Material: alloy steel, thick welded, scratch-resistant black powder coat. On camera my read was simple: "the welds look good." No grinding marks, no gaps, no places where the finish was already flaking off. At this price I expected worse.

Sockets lined with nylon inserts. Every tube is lined so the bar sleeve is not riding on bare steel going in and out. This is the detail that separates a holder you can use daily from one that slowly chews the finish off your bars. Titan does the same thing on its holder. Rogue solves it a different way with DOM tubing.

Weight of the rack itself: 8.6 kg net, 9.6 kg gross. That is 19 lb of steel. It is printed on the carton and it is nowhere on the Amazon listing. The carton also gives 30 x 25 x 22 cm, barely bigger than the rack, which is why it arrives fully assembled.

Rated capacity: 400 lb. Everymate's number, not mine. I will come back to it, because for once the number is interesting for being small rather than big.

Base: wide and freestanding, no wall mounting. The bottom plate is deliberately wider than the socket cluster. In my words on camera, it "has got a wider base on the bottom so that the bars don't get top heavy, don't fall over."

Assembly: none. It came out of the box ready. No hardware, no Allen key, no ninety minutes on the garage floor. First thing I said when the lid came off was "dang, that's solid."

What It Was Like Out of the Box

There is not much of a story here, and that is the point.

The box opened, the rack came out, and it was heavier in the hand than it looks in the photos. The Everymate branding on the front is clean and low key. It is black, it is square, and it looks like a piece of gym equipment rather than a piece of home decor pretending to be one. I said on camera that "it looks sharp, it's clean, it's black, you can hide it in the corner."

Then I loaded it with what I actually own.

First in was my 45 lb bar. I have had it for over ten years, I think I paid about $90 for it back then, and I am fairly sure it is a Body Solid. It is rusted, beat up, and I have to screw the sleeves back on all the time. It also still works, which is why I still have it. It slid straight in.

Second was the 5 kg Everymate technique bar, 11 lb, aluminum. Third was the 10 kg junior bar, 22 lb, steel. Both dropped in clean.

Three bars standing upright in a footprint smaller than a sheet of paper is a genuinely different look than three bars leaning on a wall. My reaction on camera was "boom, looks pretty nice, very happy with that." That is the whole review in one line: it did the job it was bought for, on the first try, with no assembly.

The Two Things the Listing Gets Wrong, and the One It Gets Right

This is where a review earns its keep, so here is all of it.

The listing publishes two different footprints and they are not close. The bullet points say 11.35 inches by 9.3 inches by 6.2 inches. The specification table on the same page says 6.2 inches deep by 9.3 inches wide by 6.2 inches high. Those describe two different products. A rack whose base is 6.2 inches deep cannot hold six seven-foot barbells upright without going over the first time you touch it.

I did not know any of that when I was filming. On camera I eyeballed it and said "it's maybe 12 in by 8 in, maybe a little bit bigger than that, I don't know exactly off top of my head what it is, I'll look it up." Then I looked it up. The eyeball said roughly 12 by 8. The bullet says 11.35 by 9.3. My guess was right, which means the bullet is the honest number and the spec table is the typo. If you are planning your floor layout, plan for about 11.5 inches by 9.5 inches and you will be fine.

The stability language oversells it. The listing says "unshakable stability" and "anti-tip design." Here is what I actually found: "I don't feel like it's going to tip over too too easily if I'm shaking the bars. If I push really hard, it'll tip, but you're going to have to push pretty hard. If you're just pulling a bar up and out, it won't tip over."

That is a good result. It is not an unshakable one. Six loaded sockets standing seven feet tall over a footprint under a square foot is the tippiest geometry in this entire product line, and physics does not care what the bullet point says. In normal use, pulling a bar out and putting it back, it stays put. If you have small kids who treat the gym as a jungle gym, know that a hard shove will put it over.

The one it gets right is the capacity number. Everymate rates this at 400 lb. Six standard 45 lb bars is 270 lb, so there is real headroom for the common case. But run the specialty math: a trap bar is 45 to 65 lb, a safety squat bar is 60 to 70 lb, a camber bar is 55 to 70 lb. Six specialty bars can put you at 350 to 400 lb, right at the ceiling on the exact use case the listing advertises.

I want to give credit where it is due here, because I have hammered this brand on capacity claims twice. On the 5kg technique bar they published 150 lb, roughly triple the category norm. On the 10kg junior bar they published 1,200 lb, the biggest round number in the category on the smallest bar in it. On this rack they published 400 lb, which is a modest, believable, arguably conservative figure. That is what an honest spec looks like, and it is worth saying out loud when a company does it.

About That "Rotate" Question

One more thing worth flagging, because it will confuse somebody.

The carton mine shipped in is printed "ROTATE BARBELL STAND, 6 BARBELL, 1 SET." You can read it on screen in the video. The rack inside does not rotate. Here is why: this model sits under a single Amazon parent listing with the rest of the Everymate rack line, two of those variants are explicitly rotating models, and the carton is clearly printed for the whole family. The 5-barbell rotating holder is $69.99. There is a 10-bar rotating version as well. The 6-barbell version I have is a fixed rack. It does not spin, its listing never claims it spins, and I did not test rotation in this video.

That matters for your buying decision more than it sounds. The 5-bar rotating carousel is $69.99. The 6-bar fixed rack I have is $75.99. So the real question is not budget, it is six dollars: do you want one more slot, or do you want the ability to spin the rack and grab the bar on the back side without walking around it. In a tight garage where the rack lives against a wall, rotation is arguably worth more than the sixth socket. In an open room, take the sixth socket.

Pros and Cons, Real Talk

Pros

• Six Olympic bars in under three quarters of a square foot of floor, which is the smallest total footprint solution at this price

• Zero assembly, out of the box and loaded in under a minute

• Welds are clean and the powder coat had no flaking or grind marks out of the box

• Nylon inserts in every socket so your bar sleeves are not riding on bare steel

• Wide base plate deliberately sized so loaded bars do not go top heavy

• Rated for trap bars and safety squat bars, which most budget holders will not claim

• 400 lb rating is a believable number, which is a real change from this brand's bar listings

• $12.67 per slot against $19.00 for a Titan 5-sleeve holder and $20.56 for Rogue's 9 bar

• Looks like equipment, not furniture. Black, square, hides in a corner

Cons

• "Unshakable stability" oversells it. A hard shove will tip it. Normal loading and unloading will not

• The listing publishes two contradictory footprints, 11.35 x 9.3 x 6.2 in the bullets and 6.2 x 9.3 x 6.2 in the spec table. Buy on the bullet number

• I only had three bars to put in it, so I have not tested whether all six sockets clear simultaneously with fat competition sleeves, a trap bar and an SSB. That test is the one nobody has run and it is the one I still owe you

• I did not caliper the base plate or the tube wall thickness. Yes4All publishes 0.4 inch base and 0.1 inch tube wall. Everymate publishes neither

• The Amazon listing publishes no unit weight at all. The 8.6 kg figure above comes off the carton, not the listing

• 4.9 stars sounds great until you notice it is 14 ratings pooled across every variant in the line, so it is not this model's rating

• This is a first look. No durability data, no six-month finish wear, no idea how the nylon inserts hold up

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How It Compares

The honest comparison is not Rogue, and I am not going to pretend it is. Nobody cross shops a $76 factory direct rack against a $185 one.

The real comparison is against what it replaces, and for me that was barbells leaning in a corner for a decade. That option costs nothing and it is genuinely worse in every way: bars scuff each other, they slide, the finish takes it, and half of them end up buried behind something. The other free option is laying bars on the floor along a wall, which turns a nine inch square of floor into seven feet of it.

The paid alternatives split into two groups. Wall-mounted holders are cheaper, some under $30, but you are drilling into studs and committing to a permanent location. That is a fine answer if you own the wall and never rearrange. It is a bad answer in a rental, a shared garage, or any gym you expect to reconfigure.

Then there are the freestanding racks. Titan's Barbell Storage Holder runs $94.97 on sale from $114.99, comes in 5-sleeve and 9-sleeve versions, measures 12 by 12 by 9 inches, weighs 19 lb, and uses 9-gauge steel tubes lined with nylon, same idea as Everymate's inserts. Rogue's 9 Bar Holder 2.0 is $185, holds nine, sits on an 18 by 18 inch footprint at 8.5 inches tall, weighs 59.3 lb, and is built from DOM steel tubes set into two sheets of laser-cut 7-gauge steel. Rogue's is unquestionably the better object and it weighs three times what this one does.

Run it per slot and the picture is clear. Rogue is $20.56 a bar. Titan's 5-sleeve is $19.00 a bar. This is $12.67 a bar, in a smaller footprint than either. What you give up is the warranty, the track record, the published material specs, and a company that will still be answering the phone in five years. For a rack that holds bars and does nothing else, that trade reads differently than it would on a barbell you are going to load and lift.

And within Everymate's own line, the sibling comparison is the one that will actually decide it for you. The 5-bar fixed is $64.98. The 5-bar rotating is $69.99. This 6-bar fixed is $75.99. Rotation costs five dollars over the fixed 5-bar. The sixth slot costs six dollars over the rotating 5-bar. Pick the constraint that is actually biting in your gym.

Who This Is For (and Who Should Skip It)

Buy it if you are:

• A home gym owner whose bars are currently leaning in a corner

• Short on floor space and unwilling to give up more of it than a sheet of paper

• Renting, or in a garage you rearrange, so wall mounting is off the table

• Building a bar collection: a power bar, an Oly bar, an EZ curl, and now kids' bars

• Someone who owns a trap bar or an SSB and has nowhere sane to put it

Skip it if you are:

• Storing six specialty bars with fat sleeves. I have not verified they all clear at once and I will not tell you they do

• In a gym where kids play unsupervised around the equipment. It will tip if it gets shoved hard

• Someone who needs published material specs, a warranty and a support line

• Happy to drill into studs, in which case a wall holder is cheaper and takes zero floor

• Only ever going to own one or two bars, where a $30 wall hook does the job

FAQ

How many barbells does the Everymate 6 bar holder actually hold?

Six Olympic bars with 2 inch sleeves. Everymate also lists it as compatible with curl bars, trap bars and safety squat bars. I loaded three bars in this video, so I have confirmed the fit works but not that all six clear at once with the fattest sleeves.

How much floor space does it take up?

About 11.35 inches by 9.3 inches, and 6.2 inches tall. That is under three quarters of a square foot. Note that Amazon's spec table lists a conflicting 6.2 inch depth, which does not match the bullets or what the rack looks like in hand. Plan for the bullet number.

Will it tip over?

Not in normal use. Pulling a bar up and out will not put it over. I did find that a hard deliberate shove will tip it, so the listing's "unshakable stability" language is stronger than what I experienced.

Does the Everymate 6 bar holder rotate?

No. The 6-barbell version is a fixed rack and its listing makes no rotation claim. Everymate does sell rotating holders in the same product family, a 5-barbell at $69.99 and a 10-barbell version, under the same Amazon parent listing.

Does it need assembly?

No. Mine came out of the box ready to load. No hardware, no tools.

What is the weight capacity?

Everymate publishes 400 lb. Six standard 45 lb bars is 270 lb, so there is headroom. Six specialty bars, where a trap bar or SSB runs 45 to 70 lb each, will put you much closer to that ceiling.

Will it scratch my barbell sleeves?

Every socket is lined with a nylon or plastic insert so the sleeve is not contacting bare steel. That is the same approach Titan uses on its holder. Long-term wear on those inserts is something I have not tested yet.

Is it worth it over a wall-mounted holder?

It depends on whether you can commit to a wall. Wall holders are cheaper and take zero floor space, but you are drilling into studs and locking in a location. This one moves whenever you rearrange.

The Verdict

I would say it is worth checking out.

It is not a thrilling piece of gear and it is not supposed to be. It is $76 of welded steel that took my three barbells off the wall they had been scuffing for a decade and put them upright in less floor space than my toolbox. It shipped assembled, the welds are clean, the sockets are lined, and the capacity number is the first one this brand has published that I did not have to argue with.

There is something underneath this that is worth naming. That beat-up 45 lb bar I put in the first slot is over ten years old, cost about ninety dollars, is rusted, and needs its sleeves screwed back on regularly. It has outlasted equipment that cost ten times as much, because I kept using it. Taking care of what you already own is not a small thing. Whoever is faithful in very little is faithful also in much. A rack in the corner is a tiny version of that. You either steward what God put in your hands or you let it lean against a wall and rust.

What I do not know yet is the part I care most about, and I want to be straight that I did not test it: whether all six sockets genuinely clear at once when you load them with competition collars, a trap bar and a safety squat bar. Six sockets on a plate this small means tight center-to-center spacing, and nobody has published that test. I own three bars today. When I own six, you get the video. Stay tuned to the channel for updated reviews, more gear, and tips and insights for men leading with purpose.

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