It's definitely an option I leave my rings attached to my rack all the time and have been considering doing dips with them. They don't get in the way much and I do 10-20 ring pushups for a quick warmup now and I like them better than regular pushups. Hopefully the dips won't bother my shoulder. I love the pull up/dip combo. I am kind of surprised that the tubes are bending you would think, due to liabilty issues, a company wouldn't make something that was at least capable of handling double the recommended weight?
Put up a pic when you get a chance. I am curious to see the set up its hard fo rme to visualize.
Been thinking about switching lifting from the mornings to evenings. Maybe I'll try it out this week a little. It's been taking a long time to get warmed up in the morning and I am kind of feeling the urge to start running a little more regularly.
Yah, a few reviews said it was a bit wobbly, and the tubing was noticeably lighter than that of the doorframe chin-up bar I just got, and the bolts didn't connect the pieces as tightly, so I was a little leery when hoisting myself up. Oh well, full refund from Amazon, so just the hassle of assembling, disassembling and dropping it off. Strange though, as you say, to make a piece of workout equipment so flimsy with potential liabilities in view.
Anyway, looking to incorporate a little more suspension strap work now that it will be easier to rig the straps quickly and with more space around them. With my old set-up the straps had to hang from a single point. Now I can have them hanging from two shoulder-width points via the joist mounts of my chin-up bar.
Speaking of chin-ups I read somewhere that it's pointless to do biceps work until you can do 10-12 body-weight chin-ups. That seems about right. As in all things, get the big, compound lifts down first, then do the assistance exercises, and biceps curls probably should be properly considered assistance to chin-ups or other pulls, right?
OK, I'll snap a few pics in a day or two. Even if I end up doing dips with the suspension straps, it might be nice to have dip bars as well, for variation, so I'll get to that and then also maybe add some short, vertical plate stacking bars on the sides of the cable loader. I don't see any real point in getting a stand for the Olympic grip plates though. With the rubberized grip it's pretty easy just to pull them off a stack on the floor, and it takes less space.
The only thing I would change so far is to have the rack's vertical posts more Olympic width. They're three feet apart, which is OK considering I'm trying to do my presses with a narrower grip, and I can still grip it comfortably outside of the posts for squats.
Yah, for me, running in the morning and lifting in the afternoon works best. Or alternating afternoon lifting and running every other day. It's just real hard for me to get up for a high intensity (fitness) activity first thing in the morning. Ideally I would probably lift mid-morning, with a couple of meals in me and testosterone levels still close to peak, but it's hard to schedule that.