What Is Major Fitness? A Buyer's Guide to the Heritage Series and All-In-One Lineup

If you've been shopping for a power rack, Smith machine, or all-in-one home gym in the last couple of years, you've probably bumped into Major Fitness. The brand has built a quiet but loyal following among garage gym owners by doing one thing well: cramming a power rack, Smith machine, cable system, and pulley tower into a single steel structure that costs less than buying those pieces separately. We added Major Fitness to Everything Gyms because customers kept asking for it, and because the engineering holds up to the price tag in a way few competitors match. Here's everything you need to know before you commit to one.

Who Is Major Fitness?

Major Fitness designs and manufactures multifunctional home gym equipment with a focus on serious-but-space-conscious lifters. The catalog isn't broad — there's no treadmill line, no dumbbell sets, no isolation machines. What Major Fitness builds is heavy steel structural equipment: power racks, Smith machines, lat towers, and the all-in-one stations that combine all three. Within that lane, the brand has built a reputation for thicker steel, higher weight capacities, and more attachment points than what you'd expect for the money.

The product lineup splits neatly into two families. The Heritage Series is the premium tier, named with a B-series numbering convention (B17 Flying Fortress, B52, etc.) that nods at military aircraft heritage. These are the flagship cages — fully featured, heaviest gauge steel, every cable and pulley you could want. The F-Series is the modular, space-saving tier, with model names like F22 Pro and F35 that emphasize compact footprints and folding designs. F-Series machines still hit serious weight capacities but trade some bells and whistles for the ability to fit in a single-car garage or an apartment workout room.

Why Lifters Choose Major Fitness

Three things show up over and over in customer feedback. First, integration: with a Major Fitness all-in-one, you don't have to plan for separate purchases of a rack, a Smith bar, a lat pulldown, and a low row. They're all built into one frame, sharing the same uprights and J-cup mounting system. Second, steel quality: most models use 11- or 12-gauge steel uprights with reinforced welds, which is the same range you see in commercial-grade equipment costing two to three times as much. Third, weight capacity headroom. Even the entry-level F-Series models support more weight than 99% of home users will ever rack, and the Heritage Series flagships are rated well into commercial territory.

What you give up: the brand isn't trying to be a one-stop shop. You won't buy your bench, your barbell, your plates, and your cardio machine from Major Fitness. The catalog is focused on the structural centerpiece of the gym, and Major Fitness expects you to source the rest from compatible specialists. That's actually a feature for a lot of buyers — you can pair a Major rack with the bench and bar of your choice rather than being locked into a manufacturer's accessory ecosystem.

The Major Fitness Lineup at Everything Gyms

We currently stock the three flagship all-in-ones, each tuned to a different buyer profile.

The Major Fitness B52 All-In-One Home Gym Smith Machine at $1,499.99 is the top of the line — a power rack, Smith machine, dual cable stack, and lat tower in one frame. Think of it as the do-everything garage gym solution for someone who wants to ditch a multi-piece setup without giving up any movements. It's the right pick if you have the space (about 7' x 6' footprint plus pull range) and you want the deepest exercise library Major Fitness offers.

The Major Fitness F22 Pro All-In-One Power Rack Home Gym at $929.99 is the value flagship. You get the power rack, the cable system, and the lat tower, just without the Smith machine track. For lifters who do most of their pressing and squatting with free weights and just want a cable assist for back work and accessories, this is the better-priced sweet spot.

The Major Fitness F35 All-In-One Home Gym Wall Folding Power Rack at $949.99 is the wildcard. It mounts to a wall and folds flat when not in use — a feature that genuinely matters if your gym shares space with a car, a workshop, or kids' play area. The folding mechanism is solid (it's not a flimsy hinge), and weight capacity stays well above what most home users need. This is the rack to look at if floor space, not budget, is your real constraint.

How Major Fitness Compares to Other Brands

Inside Everything Gyms, the most natural comparison is Body-Solid, our long-time strength brand. Body-Solid has been building gym equipment for 30+ years, and their lineup is broader (commercial leg presses, multi-station selectorized home gyms, full cardio line). Body-Solid's strength catalog tends to be modular — you buy a power rack, you add the lat attachment, you add the dip bar — whereas Major Fitness bundles everything into a single frame from the start. For a lifter who wants one purchase decision and doesn't want to think about compatibility between modular accessories, Major Fitness is the cleaner buy.

Outside the store, Major Fitness gets compared most often to Rep Fitness and Force USA. The fairest summary: Major Fitness usually beats both on price for equivalent steel gauge and feature set, while Rep wins on accessory ecosystem breadth and Force USA wins on brand recognition. If your priority is the most rack and cable system per dollar, Major Fitness is consistently the answer.

Who Should Buy Major Fitness?

Major Fitness is the right choice if you check three of these four boxes:

You're building (or have built) a garage or basement gym and you want one structural centerpiece, not five. You lift seriously enough that 1,000-pound rated steel matters to you. You're space-constrained and like the idea of one frame holding three or four pieces of equipment. You're price-sensitive enough that paying $1,500 for an integrated setup beats paying $2,500 for separates.

It's the wrong choice if you want a fully accessorized brand experience (benches, bars, plates, cardio all from the same maker) or if you're in a garage with a ceiling height under 7 feet — most Major Fitness racks need at least 84 inches of clearance.

What to Pair With a Major Fitness Setup

Because Major Fitness focuses on the rack, you'll need to source compatible peripherals. We typically recommend:

A heavy-duty adjustable bench rated to at least 600 lbs (the Body-Solid bench lineup pairs cleanly). A 7-foot Olympic barbell with at least a 1,500-lb rating for the Heritage Series flagships. A set of cast iron or rubber-coated Olympic plates totaling at least 300 lbs to start. Optional: an extra pair of J-cups, a pair of safety straps, and a landmine attachment if your model supports it.

You can also extend the cable system with handle and bar attachments — most Major Fitness pulleys use a standard carabiner clip, so any aftermarket lat bar, tricep rope, or stirrup grip will work.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Major Fitness commercial-grade? The Heritage Series approaches commercial spec — 11-gauge steel, 1,000+ lb capacities — but the brand markets these as residential equipment. They'll handle any home use indefinitely; they're not warrantied for commercial gym deployment.

How long does shipping take? Major Fitness ships from a U.S. distribution center, and most orders arrive in 5–10 business days. Heavy items ship via freight to a curbside location.

Does Major Fitness offer a warranty? Yes — frames carry a structural warranty, and pulleys, cables, and small parts are covered separately. Specifics vary by model and are listed on each product page.

Can I assemble it myself? Yes, but plan on 4–8 hours and a second person. The all-in-ones are heavy and the upright assembly step needs two sets of hands. We don't recommend solo assembly.

Will it fit through a standard doorway? Yes — the units ship disassembled in flat-pack cartons. The largest individual piece is usually a single upright, which clears any standard interior door.

Browse the Major Fitness Lineup

Ready to compare specs side by side? The full Major Fitness collection at Everything Gyms has every active model with current pricing, dimensions, and capacity ratings. If you're trying to decide between the B52 and the F22 Pro, our Major Fitness power rack buying guide walks through the decision tree by use case. And if you want to see how Major stacks up against our other strength brands, the Body-Solid vs. Major Fitness vs. Best Fitness comparison puts all three head to head.