About Strong in Europe

Independent reviews and buying guides for home-gym and powerlifting equipment, written for people buying it in Europe.

Why this site exists

Most English-language home-gym coverage is written for American buyers. The recommendations are often good and frequently irrelevant: the product does not ship here, or it ships at a price that stops making sense once freight, VAT and customs are added. The useful question is not "what is the best power rack" but "what is the best power rack I can actually buy in Europe at a sensible delivered price".

So everything here is written from that angle — European availability, delivered cost, EU versus UK sellers after Brexit, and which European makers are worth knowing about.

Who writes it

We are a group of powerlifters that have been dissatisfied with the commercial gyms we had to train in, so we decided to take things into our own hands.

As of writing this, we have been training at our "home gym" in a storage space we are renting. Between the 3 lifters who shares this space as their primrary training facility, every level is represented from utterly untalented enthusiast to IPF Worlds competitors. Other lifters, including some national champions attend the gym on rare occasions too.

I guess what I'm saying is that while our equipment is not being constantly in use as it would be in a commercial gym, it gets loaded with weights around 300 kgs or so regularly, so it does get heavily tested.

How it makes money

Affiliate links, disclosed on every page that carries them and explained in full on the affiliate disclosurepage. No sponsored reviews, no paid placements, and no retailer sees a review before it is published.

Getting in touch

Corrections and questions: hello@strongineurope.com.