Commercial-Grade Plate Loaded Hip Adduction and Hip Abduction Machine

Solid unit. Simple design with excellent functionality!

Excellent plate-loaded hip adduction/abduction machine. Dual function with rotating pads, six starting positions, heavy frame, and smooth movement under load. Feels closer to a commercial gym piece than a typical home-gym combo. Pads are comfortable, the machine stays stable, and you can actually progressive-overload inner and outer thighs. Assembly is a project — poor labeling and instructions — but once built it is rock solid. Highly recommend if you train hips seriously and have the space. Based on assembling numerous weight machines (Rogue, REP, Titan, FTS, Temple of Gainz) the one main thing Echo needs to do is properly label the parts, and make them correspond to the written instructions. The you tube video of assembly differs from the written instructions. If Echo can fix this small problem their equipment will be right up there with the other major brands.

The machine is absolutely top notch for this price point. It has a smooth commercial feel, it's heavy duty but still has a manageable footprint for a home gym. That being said, it arrives in a massive wood crate full of unlabeled parts, looking like contraband. The hardware is all mixed together in a single plastic bag. Again, no labels. There are no assembly instructions included, only a digital download. There is an instruction video but it's so ridiculously useless that at certain points, I thought I was being punk'd. I opted to guess my way through the digital assembly instructions, which were terrible. No exploded diagrams, awful hard to discern schematics and doubly difficult to follow since some parts were randomly pre-assembled. I ended up having to disassemble a bunch in order to get the legs to properly fit in the bearing housing but not before wasting an inordinate amount of time trying to get them to fit beforehand. Putting the thing together was a time-consuming nightmare and could've been straightforward with decent instructions. At one point, I emailed customer service with a question and it's been almost two weeks with no response to that email. That being said, the machine was nice enough that I'd probably order from them again and just prepare myself for the misery seige of assembly again.

Machine was a nightmare to put together has scratches all over it like it was returned. Directions were basically useless half of it was put together incorrectly, so I had to be dissemble to put back together and also my current Olympic weight plates do not fit the post the post is too big that came on the machine.

It arrived used and missing nuts/bolts/pieces. I contacted Echo Strength three times amd they never responded. I bought whst was needed to get it together and working.