Ultimate Body Press Adjustable Folding Dip Bar Station - Portable Home Gym Equipment for Strength Training, Pull Ups & Dips - Perfect for Home Workouts, Garage Gym & CrossFit Training

After reading the full spectrum of reviews here at Amazon as well as trying out numerous models of dip stations at local sporting good stores, I decided to give the Ultimate Body Press Dip Stand a try.While I ultimately gave the item five stars, let me begin with two minor complaints.First, assembly is not as easy as it could be. Each part is marked with a colored dot that slides into a second part with a corresponding colored dot. However, two of the colors (yellow and slightly darker yellow) are nearly indistinguishable in normal lighting and with a casual glance. If you stop and look for the difference, it's there, but it doesn't stand out. Once you've differentiated between two very similar shades of yellow dots, assembly is pretty straightforward. The directions are not terribly useful (which isn't that big of deal, since you really can't mess up matching colored dots), but I'd strongly encourage the company to rewrite them; they appear as if they were written by someone who is very familiar with the assembly process and not written for someone who had just received a box of parts.Second, after the product is assembled, there's a disturbing amount of play to it. For all intents and purposes, you wouldn't want something to which you were going to entrust your full body weight to wiggle a good deal and it does - but only until you put your body weight on it. Seriously. Please allow me to continue. This is a five star review after all.The Ultimate Body Press Dip Stand is well-designed and incredibly sturdy. Once your body weight is on it, it tightens up beautifully. Granted, the first time or two it's a little disconcerting to be able to stand next to the Ultimate Body Press Dip Stand and wiggle it as if all the joints are loose, only to have it be incredibly tight and stable when you apply your body weight to it. Once you've mounted the device, there's no play to it at all and it's just a hair below being rock solid. I realize how odd that sounds, but that was exactly my experience with the Ultimate Body Press Dip Stand.That said, it performs beautifully. I had been a dedicated member of my local gym for nearly ten years before it went out of business, at which point I decided to workout from home. The Ultimate Body Press Dip Stand was the missing piece of equipment in my home gym and I'm accustomed to doing a lot of dips at the gym. There is an extremely slight wobble to the device when doing body weight exercises on it (I weigh almost 200 pounds) but it isn't enough to be a distraction or a safety concern. Even when you reach the end of a set and your arms are shaking, the Ultimate Body Press Dip Stand remains very stable. If I hadn't been concerned by how much this piece of equipment wiggled when I stood next to it, the wobble while in use is so minute that I probably wouldn't have noticed it. Having done a lot of dips over the years, the wobble is very minor and I truly believe you'd need a solid weld, rather than a connection, to completely eliminate the play. The construction is solid (think fitted metal pipes sliding into each other and locking in place with large pins), everything from the hand grips to the rubber pieces that touch the floor are well-made, and having worn out my share of equipment, the Ultimate Body Press Dip Stand seems to be much more durable than most pieces of home gym equipment.For the price, I would recommend the Ultimate Body Press Dip Stand without reservation. I'm extremely happy with the purchase - especially at the price - and given my personal preference, I imagine that I will use it much more frequently than the average purchaser, so I'm probably more critical than most. I'm giving it five stars as its only real competition would be a high-end dip station where all the joints have been welded into a single unit. For a piece of home gym equipment that is capable of being disassembled for shipping or storage, I honestly can't imagine how you would improve upon this item. It's as stable, functional, and durable as you can get without welding all of the joints together.