6 Best Adjustable Maces for Home Gyms in 2026, Ranked by Weight Range

6 maces ranked · 3 dropped for being unbuyable · every price pulled from the maker's own store on 21 August 2026

A mace is a stick with the weight bunched at one end. That is the entire product. What makes it hard is not how much it weighs but how far that weight sits from your hands, which is why a 10 pound mace humbles people who press 10 pound dumbbells for reps without thinking about it.

Adjustable maces let you change that load instead of buying a rack of fixed ones. The category is much smaller than it looks, though. We started with nine and finished with six, because one is out of stock, one brand exited fitness equipment entirely, and one quietly stopped selling maces while leaving the workout guides up for sale.

The number on each tile is the current list price on the maker's own store. Tiers are graded on starting weight and loading space first, then build and price. Nothing reached D or F, because everything left on this board is a competent tool once you are past the entry point. The House of Hercules price is Canadian dollars, which works out near $170 US at the time of writing. Product images belong to their respective manufacturers.

The One Number Everybody Leaves Out

Every adjustable mace lists a maximum. Almost none of them lead with a minimum, and the minimum is what decides whether you can learn a 360 without wearing it across the back of your skull.

The mace swing is a skill before it is a strength exercise. The bar travels behind your head, changes direction, and comes back. Get the timing wrong with something heavy and you find out immediately. Every coach who teaches this starts people absurdly light, then adds load once the path is grooved. So the useful question for a beginner is not how heavy it goes. It is how light it starts.

Here is where these six actually begin, empty, before a single plate goes on:

That spread is the ranking. It is not the only thing we weighed, but it separates this field more cleanly than price, finish or brand, and unlike a subjective feel score you can check every figure yourself.

Why Where The Weight Sits Beats How Much It Weighs

Hold a plate against your chest and it is trivial. Hold the same plate at arm's length and your shoulder starts complaining in seconds. Nothing about the plate changed. What changed is the distance between the load and the joint holding it up, and that distance multiplies.

That product is torque, and it is the whole reason a mace feels the way it does. A mace is a lever with the load parked at the far end on purpose:

This is where the hollow head earns its place. If the head is a solid lump of steel, its weight is fixed and a lot of it sits close to the shaft. If the head is a hollow shell or an open loading sleeve, two things become possible. The mace can start almost empty, and the plates you add stack outward, away from your hands, where each pound buys more difficulty.

Kensui builds around that idea harder than anyone else here. The EZ-MACE is a 40 inch shaft with 30 cm of loading space, roughly 11.8 inches, which is the longest run of loadable sleeve in this group by a wide margin. Rogue's loadable sleeve is 7.5 inches. More sleeve means more plates and it means the stack keeps extending outward rather than bottoming out against a collar.

One correction, because the marketing on this gets sloppy. Kensui did not invent putting mass at the end of a lever, and it is not the only brand thinking about it. Rogue builds its 10 and 12.5 pound maces on a hollow stainless shaft and says plainly that this is to make the mace lighter and to concentrate weight toward the end. Rogue also sells cut-out dumbbell bumpers designed to sit over the collar and push mass further out still. That is the same physics, handled by a different route.

What Kensui wins on is not the concept. It is the floor and the runway: the lightest empty weight in the category and the most room to load.

1. Kensui EZ-MACE V2

The PRO is Malaysian rubber wood and weighs 0.9 kg empty, which is 2 pounds. That is a genuinely unusual number. It means the first session can be pure technique, with the shaft bare, and it means a warm-up set does not have to be a scaled-down version of your working weight. It can just be the handle.

The MAX swaps the wood for powder-coated steel at 2.3 kg empty, around 5.1 pounds, for people who want to live at the heavy end. Both take any 2 inch Olympic plate and both use the same lever collar. Buy the PRO if you are learning, the MAX if you already swing something heavy and want a handle that will not flex.

What we would flag before you buy. Kensui publishes no maximum load for the EZ-MACE, so the honest answer on ceiling is that it is limited by the 30 cm of sleeve and the thickness of your plates rather than by a number the brand will stand behind. The rating is a real 4.49 across 413 reviews, not a rounded up 4.5, and roughly three in ten of those are four stars rather than five. And the shaft does not rotate, which matters for the flow work covered below.

2. Rogue Mace

If your interest is flow work, 360s and 10-to-2s rather than slow strength holds, read this entry twice. Rogue borrowed its barbell sleeve design for the mace, so the loaded end rotates freely while the shaft stays in your hands. On a fixed sleeve the plates fight your grip through every direction change. On a rotating one they carry through. Nothing else on this board does that.

It also carries a lifetime warranty, it is machined in Columbus, Ohio, and the pommel is turned from a solid billet rather than pressed on. Buy this one if you value the object.

The costs are real, though. It is the most expensive mace here at $195 and that buys you the handle only, with plates extra. The lightest version starts at 10 pounds, five times the Kensui floor, so it is a poor first mace for a nervous beginner. And the loadable sleeve is 7.5 inches against Kensui's 11.8, so it runs out of room sooner.

3. Adjustable Maverick Mace Pro

Dangerously Fit is the only brand in this group that answers the ceiling question directly: 66 pounds, on 2 inch Olympic plates, with fractional plates sold alongside for smaller jumps. At $139 that is the most capacity per dollar on the board by a distance, and the quick release collar is faster to work than a threaded one when you are stripping plates between sets.

Where it loses ground is the start. At 5.5 pounds empty it is nearly three times the Kensui PRO's floor, which is fine for most people and not fine for someone who has never swung anything. The brand's own product photography also leans hard on marketing overlays, which made it unusually tedious to confirm plain specifications.

4. Adjustable Maverick Mace Classic

Mace training came out of wood and a lot of people still prefer it. Bamboo has a small amount of give through a direction change that steel does not, and it stays warmer in an unheated garage in February. If the Kensui PRO is unavailable and you want wood in your hands, this is the alternative.

It sits a tier below the Pro for one reason. The loading assembly is a wooden head with a separate collar rather than a machined steel sleeve, which is more pleasant to hold and less reassuring at the top of the load range. At 20 pounds nobody will care. At 60 it is worth thinking about.

5. House of Hercules Adaptable Mace

Length does the same work as weight here, and at 40.56 inches this is the longest shaft on the board. For tall lifters, or anyone who wants maximum demand from a modest plate, that extra reach does real work. The two included lock-jaw collars are also a genuinely better bit of hardware than what most of this category ships with.

Two caveats before you click. The price is Canadian dollars, so US buyers should expect roughly $170 plus cross-border shipping rather than the $235 on the tag. And the 40 to 50 pound ceiling is stated as a range that depends on your plate thickness, which is honest of them but makes it hard to plan around.

6. Bells of Steel Adjustable Macebell

This is the one to buy if you own no weight plates. Everything else on this board is a handle that assumes a pile of Olympic plates already exists in your garage. The Macebell does not: six 1 kg plates come with it, they live inside the head, and you go from 6 kg to 12 kg in even 1 kg steps. That is the finest progression in the category and it is genuinely the friendliest thing here for someone starting from nothing.

It finishes last on our criterion anyway, and it is worth being blunt about why. It starts at 6 kg, which is 13.2 pounds, the highest floor of any mace here. It stops at 12 kg, roughly 26.5 pounds, which is the lowest ceiling here by some way. And the plates are proprietary, so when you outgrow it you are not adding your own plates, you are buying a different mace. For $169.96 that is a narrow window of usefulness.

The Full Board

Every figure above was read off the maker's own store or spec sheet on 21 August 2026, not from a retailer listing. Where a brand does not publish a number we have written that rather than estimating one. Kensui and Rogue both decline to state a maximum load, which for a plate-loaded handle is a real gap in both cases.

Three That Did Not Make The Board

All three of these turn up near the top of a search for adjustable maces. None of them is a live option this month, and one of them is the biggest name the category ever had.

Onnit discontinued its entire fitness equipment line, announced on 30 April 2025, and that included the steel maces and clubs it was best known for. Onnit did more than any other brand to put maces in Western gyms. Anything you find now is old stock or resale.

Titan Fitness lists a Loadable Mace Hammer, which fills through a one inch hole with shot or sand rather than taking plates. It is out of stock as we publish. Be careful with the price you see quoted around it too: several roundups still show $54.99 and the actual list price is $114.99.

Set for Set comes up constantly on mace searches and no longer sells maces at all. What remains on the store is workout programs. The gear went.

Which One To Buy

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Sources and dates. Kensui EZ-MACE V2 price, variants and stock: kensui.com product page, 16 October 2026. Specifications and rating: kensui.com product page, 21 August 2026. Rogue Mace price, weights, gear specs and stock: roguefitness.com, 21 August 2026. Adjustable Maverick Mace Pro and Classic prices, weights and stock: maverickmace.com, 21 August 2026. House of Hercules Adaptable Mace price, dimensions and stock: houseofhercules.com, 21 August 2026, priced in Canadian dollars. Bells of Steel Adjustable Macebell price, weights and stock: bellsofsteel.us, 21 August 2026. Onnit equipment discontinuation: Onnit support notice, 30 April 2025. Titan Loadable Mace Hammer price and stock: titan.fitness, 21 August 2026. Prices change and stock moves, so check before you buy. Product images belong to their respective manufacturers.