Gold's gym utility bench

This is a neat, stylish bench, small enough not to clog up your house but big enough to support your back and head. It’s stable and comfortable, and you can take off the irritating foot pads if you want. The problem comes when you want to adjust the bench from flat to incline (it won’t do vertical), which is akin to constructing flat-pack furniture. You need to pull out three pins to move it, and the whole thing collapses when you do. Frustrating.

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