CAP Cast Iron Competition Bell vs Nathan TrailMix Plus

I have pairs of Rogue bells from 16kg to 40kg and there is really no comparison between the CAP bell and the Rogue bells. The CAP bell while decently finished has inferior powder coating and a slight seam under the handle. All of my Rogue bells are flawless. In conclusion

I bought one of these eight months ago and have been extremely pleased with it. It comfortably holds my Android Pixel 2 in its case, plus my car key and a snack bar. It allows me to carry plenty of water, even for my 10+ mile runs in 90 degree heat. It's effortless to remove and replace the bottles from the belt while running in order to get a drink, and at the same time the bottle retention is quite good

Got mine nice and smooth after about 15min of grinding & sanding & my hands are fine. I bought this to stash at my girlfriends place & it's been fine. Now if I could only stop being lazy & actually use it!

I have a Garmin and am not a fan of the Apple Watch for running so finding a way to comfortably carry a phone for 20 mile training runs is important to me. Now that Nathan has a belt that will accommodate a phone, I bought this hoping it would work for me. I have a 26 inch waist and 38 inch hips. Belts will not stay on my hips and I have to wear them around my waist

Amazon sells plenty of different types, any of which will work. Start with the lighter weight KBs and don't move up until you"own" that exercise with that weight, which may take a few months. Go too fast and you will tweak something and be out of commission for a few weeks or more!

I bought belt this in February, it worked very well initially. It handled bounce well. The utility straps are nice for gloves and I loved the larger pocket--in many respects it appeared an ideal and worthy replacement to my previous belt. Here we are now a little over two months later and it is now a total failure

I did have to pick up some gloves to stop minor hand chaffing. I used $4 leather mechanic's gloves at harbor freight.

That being said, the primary reason I'm even writing this review is because of the poor quality of the elastic straps that are used to secure the bottle cradles to the belt. After about three weeks, the bottles started falling out of the cradles during my runs because the elastic straps began stretching and were starting to sever. This afternoon (late Sept. 2019), the strap for the left cradle completely severed, and the right cradle would no longer hold a bottle for more than a quarter mile before it would fall out