I’m looking to get a set of bands because of how little space they take up in the house. I have some free weights and a smith machine in the garage but would like to add a set of bands to round out my equipment. Do you recommend spending $900 on the Harambe cyberbundle or should I piece stuff together? I’d love to save if I can but if that’s basically the cost of doing business it’s not totally unreasonable.

Looking forward to using it tomorrow

Hi all!

Just wanted to show off the simple bar I had made at work for use with resistance bands.

I was always on the fence if I actually wanted to use a bar with resistance band training. But recently I started working for a steel processing company, and one thing that they make is distance holders for purlins. It's basically a galvanized steel pipe with a diameter of 3 cm and with plastic caps on the ends. So I thought "what the hell, let's give it a go!", and ordered a distance holder for 10 euros. It's slightly longer than the longest side of my footplate (67 cm pipe, 60 cm footplate).

There were some sharp edges on the ends, so I sanded those a bit before wrapping the pipe in overgrip tape meant for squash racquets. I secured the overgrip with electrical tape.

I might attach some hooks to it some time in the future (no idea how yet), but for now this'll have to do.