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I have also build out my home gym over the last several years and learned a lot about the process and home gym equipment. I would like to also provide helpful tips, tricks, home gym hacks, and provide honest unbiased equipment reviews. You can find more information at Carpsgym.com or on my instagram @coachcarp76 that is typically where new equipment and gear shows up first.
Its still kind of tempting bc youre not going to be using anywhere near 500 lbs for accessory lifts like bent over rows and split squats. Im curious to see if this would work for camber bar squats. It seems like a better bar for more money is prob just a smarter buy, but for the average person it might turn out to be fine.
Yeah I would much rather some get a Closed trap bar from titan or something. At least those are solid steel. This one is thinner and the sleeves are very thin kinda like aluminum cans. Just would rather someone get a couple hundred dollar bar like Giant, fringe, or Rep I have used and tested those and I can recommend any of those. It’s just personal preference at that point. Black Friday is coming or look for one in these used market that will be better quality and safer
@@BJerrell I believe so because they also sell horizontal racks that have them on the sides. You would just need nuts and bolts to hold them on. The upright has nuts already welded to to bole the dumbbell shelves/ hangers to it
@@lekiral7114 I didn’t really have any issues with it, but remember these were the early prototypes so they have likely fixed any of those issues. Personally I like wouldn’t have a problem with it especially if i wanted to save some money. Another tip would be to not get the shrouds and save about $300-$400.
I was just wishing there were more reviews on these and low and behold Coach Carp has one the next morning! Thanks! I would like to know if it is a pain to get them out of the rack once you get to a little bigger ones?
@@philipramer1862 no it’s not bad but you wanna do your smallest ones at the top like I can start with the five pounders and go down to 50 on the bottom pretty easy to get out as long as you have the normal size dumbbells mine are 30% smaller. Like my rep fully fully knurl dumbbells. I had had no problem fit on there.
@@philipramer1862 once you get over 50lbs you probably want one of their expandable horizontal racks. Or if you’re doing 10 pound jumps you can start off with like 1020s 30s 40s 5060s 70s 80s.
All these machines need a wider plate. DOes someone make a wider foot plate for the press position? It would be an after market add on that would need a strong mounting system. I have a wider stance then any of these machines.
Elite FTS makes the Widest plate on a leg press I have seen, but that’s not really a space saving home gym piece. It’s 100% a commercial piece of equipment
Hi Coach Carp: My friends, and I purchased from Excalibur Fitness, two custom made, fully welded two tier 3/8 high polish 304 stainless steel dumbbells racks with double saddles. The top tier and bottom tier are not welded together. We paid seven thousand dollars for the two dumbbell racks in 2005. Larry Sullivan delivered our custom made 4 inch by 4 inch Olympic Bench Press/Olympic Incline, and 3 inch by 3 inch dip stand, and medicine ball holder in 2011. He replied, the cost for the same dumbbells racks would be $11K. It is now 2024, and stainless steel prices have risen immensely. Larry Sullivan of Excalibur Fitness is the only company in the United States, or the World, that fabricates exercise equipment out of stainless steel. Stainless steel does not peel, chip, or rust. Stainless steel does scratch, but you can repolish to a mirror finish using a rouge/polish. We store our Ivanko RM 5-100 lbs dumbbell with steel endplates. You have a very nice home gym. I hope to view more of your future videos.
Yeah it’s nicer and bigger than any other ones I have seen. It’s not there fault my dumbbells are 30% smaller than traditional dumbbells which also has it pluses and minuses
Man I like that rack. I’d open it up and attach it to your cage to store barbells. The center post of that can be anything else like cable attachments or kettle bells storage. Maybe a plate tree?
Yeah with an upright on a base like that you could really use it for almost anything. I believe they make extension kits too so you can make them larger or even switch them to a horizontal style rack for more dumbbells
@@atoledoc7 dude he has A Kabuki Kratos and Surplus Strength UPS high and low pulley on his rack, since this has added the Voltas. If we do an updated tour we’re gonna show them
@@simsjw not really it has two different calf block areas so there are four different ones just like a Like hack squat as leg press is the same machine just different seat or pad orientations
I saw a quick review you made on the Steel Reaper deadlift bar...Any chance you will make a video about it with detail on how it stacks up to the competition? Thanks💪
Thanks for watching. I don’t see why not especially is you have some made for a 2x3 rack. Or you could always get with someone like Dean at black widow and he could fabricate some custom ones for you. They would have to probably be vertical and to the rear. The other leg press we reviewed had plate storage pegs on the rear of it so check that out if you’re not sure what I mean by vertical ones. That one was much lighter so it also made the Rit Fit one more stable. This ATX one is much heavier so you don’t need it for stability it would be just for storage and convenience if you added some to this one.
I was optimistic about ATX coming over; thanks for making content on them. This unit looks like it pales in comparison to the Bolt one, though. If I had to decide tomorrow I'd have to go with Bolt despite the customer service issues.
@@BigPantsMurda I have never used bolt. It looks beefy, but I like this one because it’s full size but still more compact from the other ones I have seen. Especially for me in a 10x16 space floor space and height is an issue.
@@BigPantsMurda I also prefer the underneath weight loading personally. Easier to load plates on and it being in that position make the weight feel even heavier from behind
@@babygiantbarbell1014 yeah I’m no engineer, but talking to their engineers they said the weight carriage underneath the sled at that angle makes it even feel heavier than it would be so there’s a lot of room to grow on this machine
Not worried about it. Just showing how it arrived so folks know what to expect when purchasing. It’s actually a nice powder coat over two years it’s hold up well
