Home Gym Equipment Recalls: How to Check Whether Yours Is One

A recall is not a letter. That is the thing almost nobody knows until it matters.

Unless you registered the product, the manufacturer has no idea you own it. The notice goes to the regulator’s website, to a press release, and to the people who filled in a warranty card. Everyone else finds out from a review page, from a friend, or from the plate that came off.

So if you own home fitness equipment bought in the last decade, the honest answer to “is mine recalled” is: you do not currently know.

The recalls that matter, to one scale

Four recalls, nearly seven million units between them, and two of them landed in the last three years.

BowFlex SelectTech 552 and 1090 dumbbells

On 5 June 2025 the CPSC announced a recall of 3,844,200 adjustable dumbbells — every genuine 552 and 1090 sold in the United States, regardless of purchase date. The failure: weight plates dislodging from the handle during use. There were 337 reports of plates coming off and 111 injuries, including concussions, contusions and broken toes.

This is the largest recall in the category and the one most likely to be sitting in a spare room right now, because these were the default recommendation of every buying guide for a decade.

The remedy is a replacement or a voucher for the purchase price, run at bowflex.com/dumbbell-recalls.html, with the official notice on the CPSC site.

The current model is not affected. The Results Series SelectTech is the successor, and it is offered as one of the remedies to recalled owners. The names are close enough that it is worth reading the full listing title before buying — a trap we cover in are they sold in pairs.

Peloton Bike

In May 2023, Peloton recalled 2.2 million base-model Bikes after 35 reports of the seat post breaking and detaching during use, causing 13 injuries including a fractured wrist, lacerations and bruises. It covered every base Bike the company had ever sold.

Peloton Bike+

In November 2025, a further 833,000 Bike+ units were recalled for a seat post failure again, with 2 injuries reported.

Two seat post recalls, two different models, two and a half years apart. That pattern is worth more than either notice on its own: it says the failure was in a design approach rather than a batch.

Bowflex Ultimate 2 home gym

Older and much smaller — about 68,000 units — recalled after the fasteners securing the rod box to the frame could work loose, letting the resistance rods or the rod box separate and strike the user. Ten reports of separation, three injuries.

It is on this list because of what it has in common with the others: the failure was at a joint under repeated load, not in the part carrying the weight.

The pattern across all of them

Read the four failures together and the same sentence describes all of them.

Nothing failed at the heavy part. No plate cracked. No frame bent. No cable snapped. In every case the failure was at the small component holding one part to another — a retaining pin, a seat post clamp, a set of fasteners.

That is not a coincidence, and it is the single most useful thing to take from this page when you are shopping. The mass is easy to engineer. The joint that has to release and re-lock thousands of times is not.

We took that apart mechanism by mechanism in what breaks on adjustable dumbbells — the short version being that whichever adjustable set you buy, one part the size of a thumb is the entire load path.

The three-minute check

Do this for anything in your home you did not buy new this month.

1. Find the model number, not the marketing name. It is on a sticker on the frame, under the seat, or on the underside of a base. “BowFlex 552” and “BowFlex Results Series SelectTech” are different products; so are “Bike” and “Bike+”.
2. Search the CPSC database at cpsc.gov/Recalls for the brand name alone, not the model. Model naming in this industry is inconsistent enough that a model search misses things a brand search finds.
3. Check the manufacturer’s own recall page. Most large brands run one, and it is usually more current and more specific about serial ranges than any third-party summary — including this one.
4. If it is recalled, stop using it that day. The remedy is not conditional on the product having failed yet. In the BowFlex case, every genuine US unit qualified regardless of condition.
5. Register everything you own now, even years late. It is the only mechanism by which the next recall reaches you rather than reaching a review page you never read.

What this should change about how you buy

Buy the current model by its full name. The single most common way people end up with recalled equipment is buying a discounted predecessor whose name differs by two words.

Prefer fewer moving parts. Every recall on this page was a joint failure. A mechanism with a pin through a block has fewer places to fail than a dial, a spring and a cradle.

Register the product on the day it arrives. Thirty seconds, once.

Do not buy this category used without checking. A recalled unit is worth nothing and can hurt you, and a private seller has no obligation to know. This is the one category where the second-hand saving is not worth it.

If you are choosing now, the two sets we have verified against their live listings are below. The PowerBlock has the fewest parts of the mechanisms available; the BowFlex Results Series is the current, non-recalled successor to the recalled model.

See the PowerBlock listing→ See the BowFlex Results Series listing→

Questions people ask

Will they contact me if my equipment is recalled? Only if you registered it. Otherwise the notice never reaches you personally.

My dumbbells have never dropped a plate. Are they safe? The BowFlex recall covered all genuine US 552 and 1090 units regardless of condition. That is the manufacturer’s own position, not ours.

Does a recall mean the brand is bad? Not necessarily. A recall means a failure was found and acted on. The brands with no recalls are sometimes the ones too small to be investigated.

Is this list complete? No, and it should not be treated as one. These are four recalls with published unit counts that we have checked directly. The CPSC database is the authoritative source and it is updated constantly.

What about equipment bought outside the US? Recalls are country-specific. A product recalled in the US may not be recalled where you live, and the reverse also happens. Check your own national regulator.

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Every recall figure on this page is taken from the CPSC notice or the manufacturer’s own recall page: BowFlex SelectTech 552 and 1090, 5 June 2025, 3,844,200 units, 337 reports, 111 injuries; Peloton Bike, May 2023, 2.2 million units, 35 reports, 13 injuries; Peloton Bike+, November 2025, 833,000 units, 2 injuries; Bowflex Ultimate 2, approximately 68,000 units, 10 reports, 3 injuries. This page is a summary and not a substitute for the primary sources — check cpsc.gov/Recalls and the manufacturer’s own recall page before acting. We do not buy or use this equipment. If a figure here stops matching its source, tell us and we will correct it. More on the method in how we research, and more in Strength Equipment.