tldr; Quality rubber hex. Accurate weights, no smell. Better than Amazon brands.
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Best praise vs top criticism for REP Fitness Rubber Hex Dumbbells
“Yeah I think they’re fantastic, but really inconvenient to use if they’re your only dumbbells. Personally I have rubber hex DBs up to 70# and only use these DB handles for anything heavier than that because I can go as heavy as I want and take up basically no extra space in my gym. For lighter stuff they’re just too much of a hassle to swap out weights between different exercises.”
“I'm probably somewhere in the middle ... I started out in my garage a few years ago with a rack, bench, and plate loaded leg extension/curl from Valor fitness. I got some XMark Texas Star plates, a generic curl/olympic bar from Amazon, and some random brand rubber hex dumbbells. After a move and a few years later, I paid a contractor to turn my barn garage into a workout space with drywall, insulation, and climate control. All of which of course, ended up being nearly 3 x the amount I was initially quoted. I guess that project could be considered luxury. Working out in an unsealed barn with no insulation sucked. In the warm months I got eaten alive by mosquitoes whenever I worked out and the smell of animal manure was awful (and probably not healthy to breathe in). Between November and March it was pretty much unusable due to the cold weather, and it was always dusty AF out there. I'm still waiting on the contractor to finish the project (it's been dragged out over six months so far), but I've bought a Titan rack and a few plate loaded machines to fill out the space, and am planning on a Trueform treadmill when the space is ready.”
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