Jordan Benches UK: Adjustable, Flat, Olympic and Utility (2026)

A bench is the piece of equipment people underspend on and then replace. It is also, in our own order history, the single most expensive thing anyone has bought from us in one go — one Jordan bench, £1,554, no rack, no plates.

The short answer: Jordan's UK bench range splits four ways. Adjustable (FID) benches — £356 to £834 — are what you buy if you already own a rack. Olympic benches — £1,380 to £1,694 — have integrated uprights and are what you buy if you don't. Flat benches — £510 to £1,554 — are for pressing heavy and for facilities that need several. Specialist and utility benches — abdominal, preacher, upright, HIIT — solve one job each and belong on a commercial floor rather than in a garage. The deciding question is whether the bench has to hold the barbell too.

What types of Jordan bench are available in the UK?

Four families, sixteen benches. Jordan Fitness — founded in 1989 by Neil Jordan, designing in the UK and supplying facilities in 85+ countries — builds the range around commercial use, which is why even the entry-level benches are heavier than typical home kit.

You can see the whole range in our benches collection, and cross-check specifications against Jordan's own listing for the Olympic Adjustable Multi Bench.

Kit for this: the entry decision is £356 versus £1,694 — and it is decided entirely by whether you own a rack, not by how strong you are.

JORDAN HELIX Adjustable Weight Bench£356View product →JORDAN Olympic Adjustable Multi Bench£1,694View product →

Should you buy an adjustable bench or an Olympic bench?

Adjustable if you have a rack; Olympic if you don't. It is that binary, and it is worth about £1,000.

An adjustable bench is a pad on a frame. It does not hold a barbell, so it has to sit inside a rack for anything heavy. An Olympic bench has its own uprights and safety catches, so it is a complete pressing station on its own — but it takes up a fixed footprint and cannot be pushed into a corner.

The trap is buying a cheap adjustable bench with no rack and pressing off the floor with a spotter who is not always there. If the budget will not stretch to a rack, an Olympic bench is the safer version of the same money — and our guide to Jordan power racks and rigs covers the other route.

JORDAN Adjustable Weight Bench£827View product →JORDAN Adjustable Incline/Decline Bench (+85° to −10°)£696View product →

How much do Jordan benches cost in the UK?

From £356 for the HELIX adjustable to £1,768 for a fully specified Fusion HIIT bench. Here is the whole range, verified live on 21 August 2026.

Note the shape of that list: there is a clean £356–£834 band for adjustable benches, then a jump to £1,380 the moment uprights are involved. The uprights, the catches and the frame that has to resist a dropped bar are what you are paying for.

JORDAN Flat Bench£510View product →JORDAN Olympic Flat Bench£1,554View product →

Which Jordan bench do you need if you already have a power rack?

An adjustable bench between £356 and £834, and nothing else until the room is finished.

A rack already gives you the uprights, the safety bars and the height adjustment. Adding an Olympic bench duplicates all three and eats another 2.5m² of floor. What the rack cannot give you is an incline, so the bench you add should adjust.

Three specifications worth checking before you choose between the adjustable benches:

• Pad height. A commercial bench pad usually sits around 45cm. Inside a rack, that height has to work with your J-hook positions — if the pad is tall and the hooks are low, you unrack awkwardly.
• Gap between seat and back pad. On cheaper benches this opens up at steep inclines and is the single most common complaint about adjustable benches. Jordan's multi benches are built to close it.
• Wheels and a handle. If the bench has to come in and out of the rack between exercises, transport wheels are not a luxury. At 40–60kg, a commercial bench is not something you want to drag.

If you are still choosing the rack itself, read the best power rack guide first — the bench decision follows from it, not the other way round.

JORDAN Adjustable Bench£834View product →JORDAN Adjustable Decline Bench£1,140View product →

What does "commercial grade" actually mean for a weight bench?

It means a declared use class under a written standard, not a marketing adjective — and benches have their own part of that standard.

ISO 20957-4:2016 "specifies safety requirements for stationary strength training benches and free-standing barbell racks in addition to the general safety requirements of ISO 20957-1". It applies to "stationary training equipment type benches (type 4)… with the classes S, H and I according to ISO 20957-1".

Those classes are defined in ISO 20957-1:2024. Class S is equipment "intended for use in training areas of organizations such as sport associations, educational establishments, hotels, clubs and studios, where access and control are specifically regulated by the owner". Class H is intended for private homes. Class I covers inclusive professional use for people with special needs and must meet every Class S requirement as well as its own.

The practical difference is stability and margin. A Class S bench is engineered to stay put when a much heavier user than average sits down off-centre with a loaded bar, and to survive that happening hundreds of times a week. Both classes can look identical in a photograph, which is exactly why the declaration matters.

If you are buying for a facility, ask the supplier which class the bench is declared to. A vague answer is the answer.

Is a flat bench enough, or do you need incline and decline?

Flat plus incline covers almost everything. Decline is the position most people buy and least people use.

Flat is where you press heaviest and where most programmes live. Incline — anywhere from 15° to 45° — changes the shoulder angle enough to be a genuinely different exercise, and 75–85° gives you a supported overhead press. Decline shifts the pressing angle in a way that a small number of lifters value and most never touch.

Jordan sells all three as fixed benches and as adjustable models spanning +85° to −10°. If the room only has space for one bench, the adjustable is the obvious answer. If the room is a commercial floor, fixed benches at each angle move more people per hour than one adjustable does, because nobody stops to change the pin.

That matters more than it sounds. Set-up time on a shared bench is the difference between a station serving four people an hour and six.

The NHS guidance asks for strengthening work covering "legs, hips, back, abdomen, chest, shoulders and arms" on at least two days a week — a flat and incline bench, plus a rack, covers all seven muscle groups without buying a decline.

JORDAN Olympic Incline Bench£1,434View product →JORDAN Olympic Decline Bench£1,554View product →

Which Jordan bench is best for a small home gym?

The HELIX Adjustable Weight Bench at £356. It is the lightest, cheapest and most storable bench Jordan makes, and in a single-car garage or a spare room that is the constraint that decides everything.

A bench is in use for maybe fifteen minutes of a forty-minute session. In a small room it spends the rest of that time in the way, so the ability to stand it against a wall is worth more than an extra adjustment position.

Where the HELIX runs out is load and pad width. It is the right bench for dumbbell work and moderate barbell pressing inside a rack; it is not the bench for a 140kg bench press three times a week. At that point the £827 adjustable or an Olympic bench is the honest answer.

For the rest of the room, our small-space home gym guide covers layout, and the home strength gym setup guide covers the buying order.

JORDAN Upright Utility Bench£594View product →JORDAN Olympic Shoulder Press Bench£1,380View product →

What do commercial buyers order, and what does a bench have to survive?

Facilities order flat benches in multiples and specialist benches in ones — and the duty cycle behind that decision is larger than most operators plan for.

ukactive's UK Health and Fitness Market Report 2026, published on 9 April 2026 with Sport England, 4GLOBAL and Grant Thornton UK, put UK club membership at a record 12.2 million people — 18% of the over-16 population — across 5,842 facilities generating 679 million visits a year. That is an average of roughly 116,000 visits per site per year, and a free-weight bench takes a share of every one of them.

There is also a legal duty attached. Where members use equipment in a facility you operate, the Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations apply, and the HSE sets out under regulation 6 that inspection is required after installation and before first use, at intervals determined by risk assessment, and after exceptional circumstances such as suspected damage or a substantial change in use. On benches the wear items are the pad stitching, the adjustment pins and the ladder detents.

Our own order data points the same way from the other end. The largest single order in our first 62 was one Jordan Olympic Adjustable Multi Bench at £1,554 in September 2025 — a buyer who had clearly decided that the bench was the station worth spending on. It lists at £1,694 today.

JORDAN Adjustable Abdominal Bench£1,110View product →JORDAN Seated Preacher Curl Bench£954View product →

Frequently asked questions

What is the difference between an Olympic bench and an adjustable bench? An Olympic bench has its own barbell uprights and safety catches, so you can bench press on it without a rack. An adjustable (FID) bench is a pad on a frame with no uprights, so anything heavy has to be done inside a rack. In Jordan's range that difference is worth roughly £1,000 — adjustable benches run £356 to £834, Olympic benches £1,380 to £1,694.

How much should I spend on a weight bench? If you own a rack, £356 to £834 buys a commercial-grade adjustable bench and there is little reason to spend more. If you have no rack, budget £1,380 upwards for an Olympic bench, because a cheap flat bench with no uprights is the wrong saving. Facilities generally buy several flat benches and one of each specialist bench.

Is a £356 bench safe for heavy pressing? Inside a rack with the safety bars set, yes, for moderate loads and dumbbell work. The HELIX adjustable is designed as a home and light-commercial bench. If you regularly press well over bodyweight, or several people use it daily, move up to the £827 adjustable or an Olympic bench, which are built for that duty cycle.

What bench angles do I actually need? Flat and one incline position cover the great majority of programmes. Jordan's multi benches span +85° to −10°, which adds a supported overhead press at the top and a decline at the bottom. Decline is the position buyers most often pay for and least often use.

Do Jordan benches meet a safety standard? Strength training benches are covered by ISO 20957-4:2016, which sets safety requirements for benches and free-standing barbell racks on top of the general requirements in ISO 20957-1. The standard defines classes S (studio and club), H (home) and I (inclusive professional use). Ask which class a bench is declared to if you are buying for a facility.

How much floor space does a bench need? An Olympic bench occupies roughly 1.9 × 1.3m and stays there. An adjustable bench is around 1.4 × 0.6m in use and stores upright against a wall, which is why it is the right answer in a single-car garage or a spare bedroom. Leave 60–70cm of clear space either side of any bench so a spotter or a dumbbell rack can reach it.

How are benches delivered, and do they need assembly? Benches ship boxed or part-assembled depending on the model, and commercial benches weigh 40–60kg, so plan for two people at the door. Tell us at the point of order if the bench is going upstairs or through a narrow gate and we will book the delivery accordingly rather than leaving it on the kerb.

Ready to choose your bench?

If you own a rack, buy an adjustable bench and spend the difference on plates. If you don't own a rack, buy an Olympic bench rather than a flat bench and a promise. If you are fitting out a floor, buy flats in multiples and one of each specialist.

Browse the full bench range, see how it sits alongside the rest of the Jordan catalogue in our Jordan Fitness brand review, or pair it with the right free weights in our Jordan dumbbells guide. Call 0333 880 3211 or use the contact form and we will match a bench to what you already own.

Pro Gym Essentials — premium home and commercial gym equipment, delivered across the UK. Prices verified 21 August 2026.