Everymate Leg Extension and Curl Machine Review: Is It Worth the Floor Space?

Every home gym runs out of room before it runs out of ideas.

That is the whole story of this machine. It is a good piece of equipment. It did everything I asked it to do for a month, it never got loose, and I was genuinely surprised by how solid it felt for what it costs. And it is not in my gym anymore.

I want to walk you through why, because the reason is not a flaw in the machine. It is the thing nobody weighs properly before they click buy, and the listing itself gets the number wrong.Watch the full one-month review here: Everymate Leg Curl Machine Review: Is It Worth the Floor Space?

If you want the build first, I put this machine together on camera back in January: 3-in-1 Adjustable Leg Extension and Curl Machine assembly and first impressions

Everymate sent me this machine to test. They did not pay me, they did not see this before you did, and as you are about to find out, they did not get a soft review out of it.

Why I Wanted a Leg Curl Machine at All

Leg extensions and leg curls are the two movements a home gym almost never has.

You can squat. You can lunge. You can put a bar on your back and go. What you usually cannot do at home is isolate a quad or a hamstring, and those are the two muscles I most want to build.

Part of that is vanity, and I will own it. I am a bodybuilder meathead at heart and I want to build those hammies and those quads. Squats are great, but squats are not the same thing as a set of leg extensions.

The other part is not vanity at all. Twenty-three years of professional wrestling and a lifetime of sports have left me with knees that need every bit of support they can get. Building the quads and building the hamstrings is knee insurance. That is not a training preference, that is trying to still be able to get on the floor with my daughters in twenty years.

So a machine that does both, in one footprint, for a couple hundred dollars, was an easy thing to say yes to.

What You Actually Get

• 680 lb rated capacity, which is far more than anyone is putting on a home leg extension

• Fits both 1 inch and 2 inch plates, with spring clips included, so your old standard plates work

• 7-position thigh pad that pins vertically to your leg height

• 24-position leg extension roller, adjusted with a pull pin

• 7-position backrest that slides forward and back for torso length

• Linear bearings on the movement rather than a plain bushing

• Alloy steel frame, 92.6 lbs assembled

• 38 inches deep by 35.5 inches wide by 37.5 inches tall

• Rated for leg extensions, leg curls and hip thrusts, though I only used the first two

Price: $229.99 the day I published this, September 10, 2026. Amazon moves prices on this listing constantly, so treat every dollar figure here as a snapshot from that date and not a current quote. Check the listing before you buy.

What a Month With It Was Actually Like

Here is the part that matters and the part I did not expect.

It never got loose. I used it a couple of times a week for a month and never noticed any shakiness. It still felt exactly as solid on day thirty as it did on day one. You are obviously not beating on a leg curl machine the way you beat on a treadmill, but plenty of budget equipment gets sloppy inside a month anyway and this did not.

Getting in and out of it is genuinely easy. You pull the lever, slide in, sit down. The thigh pad comes down onto your legs, the pull pin sets the roller where your ankles actually are, and you go. It is not a wrestling match to set up, which sounds like a small thing until you have owned a piece of equipment that is.

Switching between extension and curl takes about ten seconds. Pull the pin, swing the arm to the other side, drop the pin back in, put the safety pin in behind it. You can do it sitting on the machine, though it is easier if you stand up, and it is noticeably easier with no weight loaded.

It is more adjustable than it looks. The seat height pins underneath, the backrest slides fore and aft, the thigh pad has seven positions and the ankle roller has twenty-four. At 6 foot 5 I fit it without a fight, which I cannot say about most equipment in this price range.

I want to be clear about the quality, because it surprised me. You never know what you are going to get with a brand you find on Amazon. This one is well built, sturdy and firm, and I said so on camera before I knew how the story was going to end.

The Space Problem, and Where the Listing Gets It Wrong

Now the honest part.

The Amazon listing has a bullet headed Space Friendly, and it reads: "Measuring just 35.5 x 37.5 x 38 inches, the floor area is only 7.9 square FT."

Run that math yourself. The listing’s own product dimensions are 38 inches deep by 35.5 inches wide. That is 1,349 square inches, which is 9.4 square feet, not 7.9. There is no pair of numbers on that page that multiplies out to 7.9 square feet. The listing understates its own footprint by about eighteen percent, in the one bullet specifically written to reassure a buyer about space.

And even 9.4 is not the number that decides anything, because footprint is not the same as the room a machine needs.

You do not just set this down. You have to walk up to it, sit into it, swing your legs under a roller, and get back out. A machine you have to slide sideways past is a machine you stop using. The real number is the footprint plus the aisle around it, and nobody publishes that, including me, because it depends on your room.

Why It Left My Gym

My gym is a single-car garage, roughly 22 feet by 11.

That sounds like room until you put a treadmill, a rower, a bike and a set of dumbbells on the floor in it. Every one of those is a piece I use, and every one of them is bigger than a leg curl machine.

So the leg curl machine had to justify roughly ten square feet of the only floor I have, against equipment I use more often. Over a month it did not win that argument. Not because it was bad, but because there was no place to put it where I could actually maximize the space it took up. It ended up being the thing I moved to use something else.

Update, September 2026: it is not in my gym anymore. I said on camera that I was going to try to find a way to keep it and that I might still. I did not. I want that on the record, because a review that ends with "great product" and never tells you what actually happened next is not worth much.

Pros and Cons, Real Talk

Pros

• Held up for a month of regular use with no play or shakiness developing

• Solidly built and firm, well above what I expected from an Amazon brand

• Easy to get in and out of, which is what makes you keep using it

• Extension-to-curl swap is one pin and about ten seconds

• Fits both 1 inch and 2 inch plates with the clips included

• Enough adjustment range that a 6 foot 5 guy fits it without fighting it

• Fills the exact hole most home gyms have

Cons

• Takes roughly 9.4 square feet, and needs more than that to use

• The listing’s own "7.9 square feet" figure does not match its own dimensions

• It is a single-purpose station in a space where everything else does two jobs

• The hip thrust function the listing advertises is not something I tested

• At 92.6 lbs it is not a thing you slide out of the way between sets

→ Grab the Everymate Leg Extension and Curl Machine here

How It Compares

The real cross-shop is not another leg curl machine. It is the same movements as an attachment on a rack you already own.

Everymate makes a seated leg extension and curl attachment that bolts onto a squat rack, and I reviewed that one too. It does the same two movements and it costs less, but the reason to look at it is not the price. It is that it stores inside a footprint you have already paid for. If your rack is already standing there, the attachment adds the movement without adding the floor.

That is the honest recommendation for most people reading this, and it is the one I would have taken myself if I had thought it through in the right order.

The other comparison worth making is against nothing at all, which is where most home gyms land. Plenty of guys decide leg extensions are optional and squat instead. If your knees are fine, that is a defensible call. If your knees are not fine, isolation work for the quads and hamstrings is not a bodybuilding luxury, and a dedicated station is the most reliable way to actually do it.

→ Watch the squat rack attachment review

Who This Is For

• You have a dedicated gym room, a two-car garage, or a basement with real floor

• You want leg extensions and leg curls and you do not have them today

• You have knees that need direct quad and hamstring work

• You already own plates in 1 inch or 2 inch

• You want a station your family can use without a coaching session

Who Should Skip It

• Your gym is a single-car garage or a corner and it is already full

• You already own a squat rack, in which case buy the attachment instead

• You need every piece in the room to do more than one job

• You are not going to program leg isolation often enough to earn the floor

FAQ

How much floor space does the Everymate leg curl machine actually need?

The frame is 38 inches deep by 35.5 inches wide, which is about 9.4 square feet. The listing says 7.9 square feet, and that number does not match its own dimensions. Plan on the 9.4 plus room to sit into it and get back out.

Does it fit 1 inch or 2 inch weight plates?

Both. The pegs take standard 1 inch plates or 2 inch Olympic plates, and spring clips are included.

Is 680 lbs a real capacity?

It is the frame’s rating and it is far more than the movement needs. Nobody is loading 680 lbs on a home leg extension. It is not the number that should decide this purchase.

Did it stay solid after a month?

Yes. A couple of sessions a week for a month with no shakiness and no play developing. It felt the same at the end of the month as it did on day one.

Can a tall guy use it?

I am 6 foot 5 and it fit me. The backrest slides, the seat height pins, the thigh pad has seven positions and the ankle roller has twenty-four, which is more adjustment than most equipment at this price gives you.

Is the squat rack attachment a better buy?

If you already own a squat rack, probably yes. It does the same two movements and it lives inside a footprint you have already committed. The standalone machine makes sense when you have the floor for it or you do not own a rack.

The Verdict

This is a good machine that I do not own anymore, and both halves of that sentence are true at the same time.

If you have the room, buy it. It is well built, it held up, it is easy to live with, and it fills a real hole in a home gym. Nothing in a month of use gave me a reason to warn you off it.

If you are working with a single-car garage that is already full, be honest with yourself about the ten square feet before you order, not after. Measure the floor and then walk the room the way you would actually use it. That is the whole decision, and the listing will not make it for you.

Protecting your family means still being able to move in twenty years, and that means training the joints that are going to give out first. Whether this specific machine is how you do that comes down to a tape measure.

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Big Mike Behrens personally tests every product before recommending it. No paid promotions, no sponsored opinions.