u/easy_breezy20

I posted yesterday about combing the fringe gibbon arms with the beyond power Voltra in a separate sub, but I feel pretty solid about the current home gym setup (minus the flooring!) rep PR-5000 with Nike weights and and a few barbells. Added my Voltra and ironmaster equipment and it pairs really well.

Just inside the garage, I have my total gym evolve , which I can pair with my Speediance gym pal to give me a wide range of resistance (both marketplace scores). Off in the cardio corner, I have a peloton bike with the smartspin2k plugged in so I can ride throughout parts of the world while the resistance auto-adjusts, and lastly I have my bandbox from Goblin’s gym. With a few rare exceptions (like setting up for Voltra powered LE on my IM bench with the FA attachment), things are pretty quick and efficient. I love the modularity and that you can find things on marketplace to make this somewhat affordable (minus the Voltra part).

Still looking into gym flooring, so if anyone has recommendations, let me know! And if this serves as inspiration for anyone looking to add a bunch of variety, this is what I’ve been going with and I love it. The only thing I may add is jammer arms, but the rack looks a little busy as is

I had been looking forward to testing out my Omni Mount from Voltramounts.com. Had to wait a bit to get set up in the new home, but I finally got my gibbon arms out and gave it a go! A few thoughts.

1. The Omni mount is SOLID! Huge shoutout to Charles for knocking it out of the park with this one. I was too excited to wait for my mag pins to come, so I’ve been using hitch pins. I’ve used the mount for low rows, lat pull downs, belt squats and RDLs on the gibbon arms, and more, it’s super versatile. When you can mount parallel AND perpendicular to the rack with a 1:2 or 1:1 ratio, that’s so valuable to get all that and not have to buy multiple mounts. I’m crazy close to ordering another Voltra to pair with the other Gibbon arm, but I think for now I’ll experiment with the one and make sure beyond power gets all their inventory back in stock.

2. Fringe should offer a digital resistance option when selecting cables to pair with the GA, especially with Speediance, FA, and others coming out with their own versions of digital resistance. When I set up my GA, I had to use both end caps to create this setup, since the other end of the cable wasn’t going into a weight stack, and now I will have to order end caps from amazon for the other arm ( I have voltras and free weights, but no weight stack).

3. If the hole to thread the cable through the arms was a bit bigger, that would also solve some issues in connecting the cable to a Voltra that you can easily unmount when done without having to thread the voltras cable through any free motion arms. From the sounds of it, there are others making belt squat pulley platforms that can be used as well with the Voltra, similar to the Kodiak belt squat.

4. All these things are still fine, and with the 1:2 ratio provided by the Omni mount (which is BRILLIANT), I still have a lot of cable travel IF the Voltra is mounted far from the entry point of the gibbon arms. The gibbon arms are quite long, and I have a tall rack, so I don’t run into too many issues, but it is a limitation! Wondering if anyone would have any creative fixes to this.

Playing with all the angles that I can with the arms and the Omni mount, and super pumped to see what rolls out I. The next batch of ideas.