Everymate Leg Extension and Curl Attachment Review: Better Than a Leg Machine?
Everymate sent me this attachment. They didn't see this review before it went up and had no say in what's in it.
For about a decade I did not train leg curls at home. Not because I didn't think they mattered, and not because I couldn't be bothered. It was floor space. My gym is a single car garage, roughly 11 by 22 feet, and it already holds a squat rack, a bench, a treadmill and enough plates to make the whole thing feel full. A dedicated leg extension and curl machine is a piece of furniture. There was never a version of my gym where one fit.
So when I saw that Everymate makes a leg extension and curl unit that bolts to the upright of a squat rack, I wanted it immediately. I was also skeptical, because it is a bracket with two foam rollers and it is asking to replace a machine that normally weighs a couple hundred pounds and takes up nine or ten square feet.
I've had it about a month now. Short version: it works, I'm keeping it, and there are two catches nobody tells you about before you buy.
Watch the full one month review
What it actually is
It is a steel bracket with two padded rollers and a loading pin, and it bolts through the holes in the upright of your squat rack. You slide the bracket into the uprights at the height you want, run a bolt through, and tighten a wing nut on the back.
Once it's on, you get two movements from one attachment:
Leg extensions. You sit facing away from the rack with your shins behind the top roller and your feet under the lower one, and press out.
Leg curls. You turn around, stand in it facing the rack, and curl your heel up against the roller.
Load is a standard Olympic plate on the pin. Nothing proprietary, nothing to buy separately.
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The specs Everymate publishes
Weight capacity: 600 lb
Material: alloy steel with foam rollers
Item weight: 11 kg, about 24 lb
Rack compatibility: 1 inch aperture rack hole
Height positions: 8
Loading: standard Olympic plate on a pin
Movements: seated leg extension, standing leg curl
Everymate lists this at $128.99 on their own store on the day I published this, September 11, 2026. Amazon moves prices on listings like this constantly, so treat every dollar figure here as a snapshot from that date and check the listing before you buy.
Why I wanted the attachment and not the machine
I reviewed Everymate's full leg extension and curl machine first. It's a good machine. It's solid, it's built well, and after a month I got rid of it, for exactly one reason: it ate floor space I didn't have.
That's the honest comparison, and it's the whole reason this attachment exists. A machine gives you a seat, a back pad, a proper strength curve and a piece of equipment that lives in one spot forever. The attachment gives you the movement and nothing else, and when you're done you pull it off the rack and lean it against a wall.
If you have the room, the machine is the better product. If you don't, the machine is not a product at all, because it won't be in your gym.
What it does well after a month
This is the part I did not expect. I thought I was buying a compromise. I wasn't.
The movement feels like the movement. The rollers sit where they should, and the resistance is smooth through the whole range on both exercises.
It comes off fast once it's loose. Two wing nuts and two bolts and the whole thing slides out.
It stores flat. Against a wall, behind the rack, wherever. It is not competing for floor space when you aren't using it.
It takes real weight. Standard plates on a standard pin, and there's enough sleeve to go heavier than I'd want to on a leg extension.
Both movements, one bracket. Turn around and you're curling instead of extending. No swapping, no reconfiguring.
A month of use didn't loosen anything up. The welds, the pads and the hardware are all the same as the day I mounted it.
The first catch: there is no seat
This is the big one, and it is the thing I'd want to know before buying.
A leg extension machine has a seat and a back pad, and the seat is not a convenience. It's what lets you brace your hips and keep your femur fixed so the quad does the work. Take the seat away and you have a bracket with two rollers and no idea where to sit.
You have to solve that yourself. Everymate does not include a seat, does not sell one, and does not mention the problem anywhere on the listing.
The box, and why box height is the whole thing
What I use is a plyo box set behind the rack. It works, and it happens to be close to the right height for me at 6 foot 5.
That "happens to be" is doing a lot of work in that sentence.
Too low and your shins start behind the roller at a bad angle and the first part of the rep is wasted.
Too high and you can't brace, because you're perched rather than sat.
Too far back and the roller is on your ankle instead of the base of your shin.
So the honest version of this product is: it's an attachment plus a box you already own or are about to buy, and the box is not an accessory, it's half the setup. If you don't own a plyo box or a solid bench of the right height, budget for one before you decide this is the cheap option.
The second catch: the wing nut mount
The bracket attaches with a bolt through the rack upright and a wing nut on the back, and that wing nut has to be genuinely tight. Not snug. Tight. That's not a design flaw, it's physics: the whole load path runs through that connection, and a loose bracket under a loaded leg extension is not something you want to experience.
The consequence is that this is not a quick-change attachment.
You can't pull it off between sets to squat and then put it back in twenty seconds.
If you crank it down hard, the wing nut can be a fight to get back off by hand.
Reinstalling means lining up two brackets, two bolts and two wing nuts, and you'll want to be standing up to do it, not sitting behind the rack.
In practice it takes a couple of minutes each way. That's fine if you're leaving it on for a leg day and pulling it off after. It's genuinely annoying if you were picturing swapping it in mid-workout.
The honest note: the spec that decides whether it fits is filed under "Color"
Here's the thing I found that is not in my video and is not obvious on the listing either.
This attachment only fits racks with 1 inch holes. If your uprights use 5/8 inch holes, or 18mm, or 26mm, the bolt does not go through and you own a piece of steel you can't mount.
That is arguably the single most important fact about the product, and on Amazon it lives in two places, both of them bad:
In a parenthetical at the very end of a 30-word product title, after "Fitness Squat Rack Accessories," where nobody reads.
In the Color field. The Color attribute on the listing reads "1inches-black". The bore size is encoded as a color option. A buyer scanning color swatches to pick black is actually picking a hole diameter without being told that's the decision they're making.
There is no fitment field, no compatibility line in the bullets that a skimmer would catch, and no warning at checkout.
What makes this worse is that everyone else in this category does it properly, including Everymate themselves. Their own Nordic hamstring curl attachment puts "Compatible with 5/8 inch or 1 inch Holes" right in the product title. Competing leg extension attachments from RISANXUN and Kipika lead with hole size as an explicit variant choice. So this isn't a category-wide blind spot. It's one listing that buried it.
Two smaller things in the same vein, once you start reading the spec table:
The 600 lb capacity is filed under Amazon's "Tension Level" field, which is not a weight capacity field. If you filter or sort by capacity, this product's number is in the wrong box.
The 8 height positions are real and published, and I never mentioned them once on camera. For a leg extension, where the roller sits relative to your knee and ankle is the setting that decides whether the movement feels right, and it's adjustable in 8 steps. That's a genuine feature and it's buried in the middle of a bullet point.
Measure your rack before you order. Put a tape or a caliper on one of the holes in your upright. If it isn't an inch, this is not your attachment.
Who this is for
Buy this if:
Your gym is a garage, a spare room or a basement corner and floor space is the constraint that decides everything.
You already own a squat rack with 1 inch holes.
You own a plyo box or a bench at roughly knee height, or you're willing to get one.
You're fine leaving it mounted for a leg day rather than swapping it mid-session.
Buy the machine instead if:
You have the floor space and you're not going to miss it.
You want a proper seat and back pad without solving it yourself.
You want to set up and start in ten seconds every time.
The Everymate leg extension and curl machine is the one to look at in that case, and I reviewed it after a month here.
What I still haven't tested
I want to be straight about the gaps, because a one month review that pretends to be complete isn't worth much.
I never measured anything. No tape on the roller spacing, no usable pad height, no check of my own box height. Those are the numbers that would actually help someone decide, and I don't have them.
I never tested the 600 lb claim, and I'm not going to. I'm loading one or two plates, which is a long way from the ceiling.
I never demonstrated the 8 height positions on camera, which is the adjustment that matters most on this product.
I haven't rechecked the wing nut torque over time. A month of use hasn't loosened it, but I haven't put a wrench on it to confirm.
I haven't tried it on a second rack. Everything here is on my rack, with my hole size.
Frequently asked questions
Will this fit my squat rack?
Only if your uprights have 1 inch holes. Measure before you order. The listing puts this detail in a parenthetical at the end of the title and in the Color field, so it is very easy to miss.
Do I need a bench or a box to use it?
For leg extensions, yes. There is no seat. You sit on something behind the rack, and the height of that something changes how the movement feels. Leg curls are done standing, so those need nothing extra.
How much weight does it hold?
Everymate publishes 600 lb. That figure sits in Amazon's "Tension Level" field rather than a capacity field. I haven't tested anywhere near it.
Can you leave it on the rack all the time?
You can, but it sits in the way of a lot of rack work. Because the mount is a bolt and wing nut that has to be properly tight, most people will leave it on for a leg session and take it off afterward rather than swapping it between sets.
Is it better than a real leg extension machine?
No, and it isn't trying to be. A machine has a seat, a back pad and a better strength curve. This one gets you the movement in a gym where a machine would never fit. That's the trade, and for a lot of home gyms it's the right one.
Would you buy it again?
Yes. I got rid of the full machine after a month because of floor space. This one is staying.
The bottom line
I spent a decade not training leg curls at home because the equipment that does it is too big for the room I have. This bracket solved that for the cost of a piece of steel and a box to sit on.
It is not a machine and it does not pretend to be. You supply the seat, you tighten a wing nut properly, and you check your rack holes before you order. Do those three things and you get two movements back that most home gyms just quietly skip.
One month in, it's staying in my gym.
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