Giant Xtra Vertical Knee Raise Review

This is the Yukon CDL-153, one of the few decent dip/chin/VKR stations on the market for serious strength trainers.The manufacturer's price is actually $300, and the MFR charges about $50 in shipping.The standard price for it on the internet is $380 with "free" shipping.However, none of the companies that sell it actually stock it;they just charge you an additional $30 for the privilege of drop-shipping it to you from the manufacturer.This is true for the company that Amazon sources this product from (Bayou Fitness).

Mine came missing the oval brackets, which the manufacturer wants people to use to prevent them from bending the tubing from cranking the bolts down too hard.I called the MFR on a Thursday and received the replacement brackets via FedEx on the following Wednesday.The MFR was pleasant and courteous.

This product is sturdily built, unlike most other C/D/VKR stations.The other stations typically claim to support up to 220-250 lbs.However, they don't employ supports for the dip arms or chin bar;they actually just bolt or weld a metal bar horizontally against the vertical frame, so even if the total load is well below the specified weight limit, the chin and dip bars tend to flex a lot.

The Yukon has strong supports for the dip arms and chin bar, and also supports for the vertical frame against the floor rails on the chin side.The stated capacity for the frame is 350 lbs, so even a 300 lb. lifter with 50 lbs. on a weight belt could exercise on this machine.However, there is no brace for the frame on the dip side, so there is some flex of the uprights even with a total load of only 225 lbs.Also, bafflingly, there is not enough clearance between the chin-side frame brace and the 3/8" nut provided for the support bolt on either the left or right side of my machine, so I couldn't attach put the supplied nut on the brace on either side.

There are a few other companies that make decent D/C/VKR stations, some of which sell online, but their products run $100-300 more than this unit, even without shipping.Tuff-stuff's VKR has better frame bracing (for around $600), but Body-Solid's units are equivalent to fragile junk you see in the chain stores. I would recommend this piece over the competition, and maybe even trying to find someone who could fabricate the dip-side braces for you out of 2" tubing.

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This extra heavy duty machine allows you to do work many body parts!

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