adidas Performance Training Bench Review: Bench, Preacher Pad and Leg Developer

The adidas Performance Training Bench is an adjustable bench with a removable preacher curl pad and a plate-loaded leg developer for curls and extensions, and it costs £244.99 on Amazon UK (5 November 2026, with only 3 left in stock when we checked). We rate it 3.8 out of 5. It folds three jobs into one frame for less than the Keppi 3000 V2, but the spec sheet is thin, the 215kg rating is modest, and like every bench-mounted leg developer it can't replace a proper leg machine.

Most of what you pay for is convenience. One bench covers dumbbell pressing, preacher curls, and quad and hamstring isolation, and a QR code on the frame links to adidas exercise videos (the "Scan to train" feature). The trade-off is a lighter, less specified frame than the dearer all-in-one benches we've covered.

Check the adidas bench price on Amazon£244.99

Who it suits, and who should skip it

It makes sense for someone building a first home gym around a pair of adjustable dumbbells who wants arm and leg isolation without buying more machines. If you're training two or three days a week and your heaviest dumbbells are 20 to 30kg each, the 215kg rating leaves plenty of room. The NHS recommends strength work on at least 2 days a week covering every major muscle group, legs included, and this bench lets you hit all of them from one spot (NHS physical activity guidelines).

Skip it if you bench press a loaded barbell from a rack, need decline, or are tall enough that leg attachments rarely fit you well. You'd also be better off elsewhere if your room can't spare roughly 1.8m of length.

Frame, padding and adjustment

The listing describes a steel frame with 2.5 inch dense foam padding and a maximum load of 215kg. Amazon gives the size as 181 x 61cm, about 120cm tall, and the weight as 57lb, which is roughly 26kg. Retailer listings disagree slightly here, with some quoting 28kg, so expect somewhere between the two.

Six positions is fewer than the 10 on the METIS or the 12 on the Keppi, and adidas doesn't publish the angles. For flat and incline dumbbell bench press work that's enough. What we can't tell you is whether there's a decline setting or an adjustable seat, and neither appears anywhere on the listing, so we'd assume not.

26kg is light for an all-in-one bench. It makes the bench easy to move, though lighter frames tend to shift more when you drop heavy dumbbells off your knees at the start of a set.

The preacher pad and leg developer

The preacher pad is the easier win. It's removable, so it stays out of the way when you're pressing, and a padded arm rest makes strict preacher curls far easier to do properly than propping your elbows on an incline back. The listing doesn't give the number of pad heights, so shorter and taller lifters should check the photos before assuming it'll sit at the right height.

The leg developer is where we'd temper expectations. You load plates onto a lever arm and use it for leg extensions sitting up and leg curls lying face down. Every bench-mounted version we've looked at shares the same two problems. The first is load: the arm is bolted to a frame designed for pressing, so there's a practical limit to how many plates you can hang on it before the bench tips or the pads dig in. The second is fit, because the knee pivot is fixed by the bench and rarely lines up perfectly for everyone, which tall and short users notice most.

Lying curls on a bench also put your hips close to straight. A 2026 MRI study of nine bodybuilders found that hip angle during the leg curl changed which part of the hamstrings did the most work, and lifters handled noticeably more weight seated (28.3kg) than with the hip extended (17.2kg) (Mitsuya et al., BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation). It's a small sample, but the practical point holds: a lying curl on this bench is a useful hamstring exercise, not a full substitute for a seated curl machine. Pair it with Romanian deadlifts and you've covered the gap.

Then there's the post. The Amazon listing doesn't say whether it takes 1 inch standard or 2 inch Olympic plates. One retailer catalogue says an Olympic adapter sleeve is included, which would mean both fit, but adidas hasn't confirmed it anywhere we could find. If your plates are all one type, ask the seller first.

See the adidas Performance Training Bench on Amazon£244.99

How it compares

The obvious rival is the Keppi 3000 V2, which costs £299.99 and does the same three jobs with a much heavier spec: a 600kg rating, 12 backrest angles including decline, an adjustable seat and a leg attachment with five range-of-motion angles and five arm lengths. That adjustability goes straight at the fit problem above. For an extra £55 or so, we think the Keppi is the better all-in-one bench for anyone who'll train legs on it seriously.

If you don't need the attachments at all, the METIS adjustable bench costs about the same at £249.99 but puts the money into a roughly 40kg frame with 10 back angles and 3 seat positions. It'll feel far more planted under heavy dumbbells. And if hamstring and quad isolation is the main draw, a dedicated machine like the LIONSCOOL leg extension and curl machine gives you a proper leg station rather than a bolt-on.

Where the adidas wins is price for the full package and a lighter, more movable frame.

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