SPORTSROYALS Home Gym Review: A 68kg Multi Gym With a Real Leg Press

SPORTSROYALS has packed a leg press, a chest fly, a preacher pad and a lat pulldown onto one 68kg selectorised stack, and priced the lot at £759.99 on Amazon UK when we checked on 27 October 2026. That's the headline. Most stack gyms at this money give you a leg developer for extensions and curls and call the lower body done. This one adds a sled-style leg press with a footplate you can move both up and down and front to back, which is the station that turns a chest-and-arms machine into a genuine full-body gym.

We give it 4.2 out of 5. The station list is the best we've seen at this price, and the 70 by 50mm steel tubing with 2mm walls is heavier than the budget machines we've covered. It loses marks because 68kg is a low ceiling for a leg press, the build is long, the listing showed "Only 3 left in stock" when we looked, and Sportsroyals is still a young name in stack gyms.

Who it suits

Buy it if you want one machine that trains every major muscle group, you're a beginner or returning after a long break, and you'd rather pull a pin than load plates. The leg press makes it a better fit than most stack gyms for anyone whose main goal is general strength and muscle, because legs get loaded work rather than just extensions.

Skip it if you already leg press well over 100kg, or if you want to squat and deadlift with a barbell. A rack does those jobs better. And if your space is a low garage or a box room, measure first: 206cm tall and 191cm deep is a lot of machine.

Check the SPORTSROYALS home gym price on Amazon£759.99

The leg press is the reason to buy

A leg developer only trains the knee joint: extensions for the quads, curls for the hamstrings. A leg press loads the hips and knees together, so your glutes, quads and adductors all work against the stack in one movement. That's the gap this machine fills, and it's why we rate it above the Marcy and HOMCOM stations at lower prices.

The adjustable footplate matters more than it sounds. Moving it up or away from the seat changes how deep your knees bend at the bottom of each rep. A 2020 systematic review of muscle activity in the leg press found quadriceps activation rose as the knee flexion angle increased, with the outer and inner quads doing the most work. In plain terms, setting the plate so you reach a deeper knee bend gives your quads more to do. The same review said the evidence on foot position variations is still thin, so don't expect a high foot to turn it into a glute machine.

You can also do calf raises off the footplate, which saves buying a separate calf raise block. For technique on the movement itself, our leg press guide covers foot placement, depth and the common back-rounding mistake.

The 68kg problem

The weak spot is simple. Your legs can move far more weight than your arms, and on a single stack the leg press shares the same 68kg (150lb) as the curl. A beginner will be fine for months. A reasonably fit adult who has trained legs before may find a two-legged press at the top pin inside the first year.

The listing doesn't publish a pulley ratio for the leg press. Some machines route the cable so the station feels lighter or heavier than the plates. Without that figure, plan around 68kg and treat anything extra as a bonus.

There are ways to stretch it. Single-leg presses roughly double the load each leg handles. Slow three-second lowering phases and pauses at the bottom make the same weight harder. And more reps work too: a 2022 trial in trained lifters found that adding repetitions at a fixed load built muscle about as well as adding weight over eight weeks. That's useful when the pin can't go any lower.

Upper body stations

The press arms do double duty. Set them for a chest press and you've got a guided pressing movement you can push to failure with no spotter. Switch to the butterfly and the 5 arm positions let you set how wide the stretch goes, which is handy if your shoulders don't like a deep fly. Sportsroyals also lists a shoulder press, so you aren't relying on the high pulley for every overhead movement.

The high pulley handles the lat pulldown and triceps pushdowns. The low pulley covers seated rows and cable curls. Then there's the removable preacher pad, which turns curls into a strict preacher curl and keeps tension at the bottom of the rep, where a dumbbell version goes slack. When you don't need it, it comes off and stops getting in the way of presses.

Upper body moves sit well within 68kg for longer than the leg press does. Curls, pushdowns, flies and shoulder presses won't max the stack for most home users. The pulldown and row are where strong backs will eventually want more.

Build quality and stability

The frame spec is the second thing that sets this apart. Sportsroyals lists 70 by 50mm rectangular steel tubing with a 2mm wall, sitting on a wide H-shaped base. That's a meaningful step up from the lighter frames on budget stack gyms, and with roughly 142kg shipped (68kg of that is the stack, the rest is frame, pads and packaging), it should sit still under a heavy leg press without walking across the floor.

The pulleys run on steel shafts, and the stack is rust-resistant, which is a sensible detail for anyone putting it in a garage. Cables and pulleys are wear items on every cable machine, though. Check cable tension after the first couple of weeks, and again every few months, because new cables stretch slightly as they bed in.

What we can't tell you is how it holds up over five years. Sportsroyals is better established with power towers, including the Sportsroyals power tower we rated 4.0, than with selectorised gyms. That's no reason to avoid it, but it's less history to go on than Marcy's long record with stack machines.

Assembly, delivery and space

It arrives in four boxes, and Sportsroyals says they can turn up within three days of each other. Don't start building until everything has landed. A shipping weight of about 142kg means two people for the boxes and two people for the build. Plan a full day: guide rods, the stack, the leg press carriage and several cable runs all have to go together in order, and cable routing is the step people rush. There's an installation video, and it's worth watching through once before you open anything.

Measure before you order. The footprint is about 191 by 131cm and it stands 206cm tall. A typical UK room with a 240cm ceiling takes it, but leave space behind the leg press seat to get on and off, room for the fly arms to swing, and a clear path to the pin. A small garage with a low beam may not work.

Machines vs free weights

People often worry a machine is second best. For building muscle, it isn't. A 2023 meta-analysis of 13 studies found no difference in hypertrophy between free-weight and machine-based training, with strength gains showing up most in whichever mode people trained with. You give up the balance demand and the heavy hip-hinge loading of a barbell deadlift. For a home user who wants to get stronger and train safely alone, that's a fair trade, and our multi gym workout shows how to build a full session around a machine like this.

How it compares

The Marcy MWM988 has the same 68kg stack, a pec dec, a preacher pad and a leg developer for £499. It has no leg press. If your lower body goals stop at leg extensions and curls, the Marcy saves you about £260. If you want loaded hip and knee work without buying a separate machine, the SPORTSROYALS is the better buy.

The HOMCOM 65kg multi gym was £335.99 when we reviewed it and covers the basics: pulldown, chest press, pec fly and a leg station. It's the budget pick, but there's no leg press, so lower body work stops at the leg station.

For a heavier stack, look at the Strongway 177kg multi gym, which trades the leg press for more weight, pull-ups and dips. Our best multi gym UK guide covers the wider field.

See today's SPORTSROYALS home gym price

Recommended reads

• The best multi gyms in the UK
• How to do the leg press properly
• Marcy MWM988 multi gym review
• A full-body multi gym workout
• Home gym equipment reviews