Yeah, you could easily cut some of these out of foam and achieve the same thing, but why not get a stack already made and spend that time on something else. They work great in stacking scenarios for sure. I use them to place between my wall mounted weight horns and the Calibrated ATX chrome plates do the bolts don’t scratch up the plates. I use them also between each plate on horn for easy grabs.

My pad had some great uses. Primarily as chest supported row. It stowed easily just hanging on upright. It’s built superbly and the leather upholstery is top grain. This style of attachment was the first of its kind. Now you see the Thresher pad, Exponent Edge Infinity Arm, BOS Seal Row Pad, Revolt, Pegasus, …all kinds of permutations. With all the other options that have a greater amount of adjustment positions for bracket and pad, it’s hard for me to still recommend this. It’s workhorse…but it’s being outdone now by other options.

Love mine and their install. I mounted mine to a ceiling joist and have a magnet that attaches to the ceiling brackets that the rings are held in place with. This keeps them out of the way when not in use, and a quick tug to release them from the magnet and they are ready to use. I use the Rogue competition straps since they are short and have no excess straps hanging or bunched up, thereby looking cleaner, but still easy to set at proper heights between floor pushups, dips and strict muscle ups. These style metal rings I think were one of the first pieces that Rogue came out with? They are durable, have a nice slightly textured powder coat that takes chalk well, the straps are great too.

I’m sorta skewed with these. I love these because they have allowed me to perform Olympic lifts in my basement despite a lower ceiling height. They also allow me to do standing OHP. When I have them on my Olympic bar, sitting on crash cushions, the starting floor pull is at same distance as with normal sized bumper plates, so that’s a plus as well. I utilize them with the Rogue DB -15 dumbbells and the C60-B straight bar made for dumbbell bumpers (for straight bar curls). I also use them on my CUBB because the sleeve collars on that are identically sized as the C-60B sleeve collars and the recess in the dumbbell bumpers fits perfectly over them - thereby increasing the usable sleeve space. Others may find these cumbersome and odd I imagine. But for me in my gym they are awesome.

I love my PR 5000 V2. I got the basic 4 post with deep crossmembers. This rack has evolved with me effortlessly. I have “expanded” my attachments like crazy and the REP PR 5000 has never failed me. I don’t have any REP attachments on it at all actually. I have Mutant Metals, Force6, Rogue, Sorinex, Oak Club, Titan, Stray Dog Strength, Prime Fitness, Revolt, etc. Some attachments I had to slightly mod to fit snugly (going from imperial to metric). The ability to expand outside of a brand’s ecosystem is not unique to REP. It just has to do with a more standardized compatibility between 3x3 racks with 1” holes and 2” hole spacing. The other thing I like about REP racks is the width. I like to have a few extra inches with benching and squatting so plates don’t have a chance to collide with uprights as easily. My welds are clean, powder coat is perfect as well.

Same superb quality as their barbells. I use these with Rogue’s dumbbell bumpers for a few CF WODs, and also for presses where I need heavier weight than my 100 adjustable dumbbells can go. These are just not a good primary dumbbell for interchangeability, not convenient that way. Also pretty bulky and wide, best to get Iron Masters for smaller form factor.

I’ve compared these side by side to the MAGS and the angles are proper and essentially identical. The overall quality of the pieces is not as nice, but you would never know unless you had them side by side. They feel the same for each movement. These have proven to be just as durable as well and I’ve never had an issue with the coating or attachment point. You can get the full set for the price of two MAGs. Most people don’t need the full set and would settle on a few favs - same is true with original MAGs. There are a bunch of knock-offs out there, but they have different angles, sizes, poor quality. These are the best that I have seen and you can’t go wrong ordering these via Amazon where you can try and decide with free returns and free shipping.

I think having a dedicated chalk stand is not needed in a small home gym. There are many other rack mounted chalk bowls available that do the trick and don’t take up the floor space. My chalk bowl/stand has multiple attachments that serve to hang my deadlift socks, headband, sleeves and wrist wraps to dry out between uses. So it serves two purposes. It’s a solid beast but the value isn’t there. Rogue sent a total of 4 of them to me (because the first three that were sent had the pieces just thrown in the box with construction paper. In transit every piece including the bowl was all scratched up). Each time I would receive them I’d call Rogue, ask for a replacement and ask that they put a note on new re-order to ensure they properly wrap the pieces to protect from marring and scratching, to no avail.