The Speediance Gym Monster 3 wants to live in your spare corner, and it has brought its own calculator. This is a machine that promises 220 pounds of motorized resistance, AI coaching, and the ability to fold a full rack into a footprint that doesn't require you to evict your coat closet. It is, by the numbers, a very neat piece of engineering. But Spoot has a tab open on something else too, a tiny house that is basically a greenhouse, which makes you wonder how much comfort we are willing to trade for compactness. You can find that one here: This tiny house is basically a greenhouse that lets you live in it. The connection is not accidental. Both are attempts to solve the same problem: how do you fit a full-sized life into a space that was never designed for it?
The Gym Monster 3 is weirdly good at math because it has to be. Motorized resistance means it can adjust load in real time, which is clever and slightly unnerving, you are trusting a machine to know when you are about to fail a rep before you do. That is the razor clam in this spec sheet. The AI coaching is not a gimmick if it keeps you from dropping a barbell on your chest, but it is also a promise that the machine will understand your body better than you do. That is a lot to ask of a device that plugs into a wall. And then there is the question of price and availability, which the source material does not give us. So we are left with a beautiful render of a very smart machine, and a quiet, spooty suspicion that the real test is whether it will ship before you decide you actually like going to the gym. Compare this to the cottage that calls itself a tiny house, which you can read about here: This "tiny" house is really a cottage, and the porch does the bragging. That one has a porch to do the bragging. The Gym Monster 3 has a spreadsheet.
Here is the honest take: if you have the floor space and the budget, and you hate the commute to a commercial gym, this is probably the most interesting option on the market right now. But Spoot would ask you to look at the fine print. The AI coaching is only as good as the data it collects, and the data it collects is only as good as the sensors it has. Motorized resistance is smooth, but it is also a single point of failure, when that motor dies, you are not doing curls with a broomstick. The takeaway, the one you can quote to a friend who asks if they should back this, is this: the Gym Monster 3 is a beautiful answer to a real problem, but it is an answer that requires you to trust a machine with your form, your progress, and your safety. And that is a very different kind of weight to lift.
