Have to applaud your ingenuity in making the base with cutting board and hockey pucks. Great idea and video.Thanks!

Your home made footplate - extremely useful. Big thanks.

Thanks to you Chris. Impressed by your way of doing X3 Bar. And all this under very low Budget and using good things and getting the same results. Really inspired me to do X3 bar. Thank you so much.

Thumbs WAY UP ! I did the same thing. It’s RIDICULOUS to pay that much for a bunch of rubber bands and a bar !

The platform needs to be above the ground to let the band slide and stretch underneath. I could have used two 2 by 4's to elevate the platform, the actual X3 platform has a channel cut into it for the band to fit in to. Thanks for the comment.

Great idea on the cutting board. I had one lying around and put some adhesive pieces of left over self adhesive foam boat decking to create non slip. Perfect!

I think yours is the best one I’ve seen!

Great video! Thank you!

A few comments... 1. Thanks for this video. I have a spare pipe in my garage, plus fat grips and spring hooks. PERFECT for what you showed. I have the X3 and my BIGGEST complaints are the bar is too short and the ground plate nit wide enough. 2. Your ground plate is genius. I suggest drilling 2-3 holes on the pucks and securing them to the plate with screws. Safer. 3. The genius of the X3 WORKOUT is something you touched on but I want to make certain you understand. A. The ENTIRE set is ALWAYS under tension. Never take tension off and never go to FULL extension. 2 seconds concentric and 2 seconds eccentric (use the X3 app with the metronome). 4. Warm up properly by doing 3-4 band warms ups of the same exercise but with lighter bands. 5. MUST use VERY high quality LATEX bands that do NOT stretch out after use and are also multi-layered. Safety. Looking forward to your results. If one follows the X3 workout protocol and program, they will get results.

I have a straight pipe loop it in middle works great I don’t you need clips on the ends really…as long as you loop it in the middle works great love my bands

Way cheaper than $550 what the X3 costs, thanks for sharing!

Easy. Thanks 🙏

I love working out with bands and you make extremely interesting videos on the subject.

Hi. What type of carabiners are you using there? Thanks!

Somebody’s dad is out of control 😂

The X3 system works even though I don’t agree with everything JJ says. If you do end up buying the system like I did, you will have to treat it like any workout. Progressive overload and working until failure. Along with proper diet. Calorie surplus for gaining weight and muscle. Calorie deficit for losing fat. You may have to do multiple sets even though the program tells you to do only one.

Drill holes in the bar to fit the carabiner. It works perfect and for the floor board use a sanding machine or dremmel bit to round out the board ends so as to not damage bands

Do you have enough stance and ROM on that 15" X 20" board to execute a front squat? Just out of curiosity. Not sure whether to purchase 12 X 18 for portability's sake, 15 X 20, or most likely 18 X 24, allowing a wide enough stance if need be execute front squats on the board (I'm about 6'2", not sure what you're height is).

Hi, thank you for video! I was wondering if you could provide the specs for the carabiner/quick link and the bar grips. TIA!

Where can you get the scale that measure the resistance band weight you are lifting.

Did the goop adhesive work with the platform? Where did you get the plastic tray?

A cutting board. So smart. Glad I watched this. Do you think it would bend or break with double heavy bands or double heavy bands and some light bands also, getting max weight at lockout closer to 500 lbs?

Hi Chris, Form where you got these Bands, Hooks?

I’m not clear how you are attaching the bands and what you used to keep them from slipping.

Osea q con cualquiera equipo casero parecido al Real funciona igual?

Hi, the current version of these cutting boards on Amazon is “cross hatch textured to bead liquids”. Basically, it has kind of a rough surface, which I’m afraid may be hard on the bands. Does the board you got have this kind of textured surface, or is it smooth?

The default X3 platform is way too narrow. I like having a wide stance and I have wide hips.

Drill through the bar and put eye bolts with nuts on other side no?

Way cheaper than $550 the X3 Bar costs.

SKOL!

Hey bro , I like the platform idea but why did u need those 4 black rings, u could have just used the bands and the platform itself?

So how much weight would be for my girlfreind who is 5 1 if she is doing bicep curl and shoulder press Also I'm 5 8 you look pretty tall

People spend more than $500 in a year for gym membership, gas cost, time wasting going to the gym and wear and tear of their vehicle. Bite the bullet and get the system. This diy X3 will injure you when something snaps and you get the bar smashing in your face doing curls.

Those overhead are so dangerous! If you make a mistake that band is carrying that bar into your teeth

How did you get Jeff Goldblum to do voiceovers for your instructional videos????

Vikings fan?

X3 system is way overpriced cost them hardly shit to make it i bet i think it should be $200 tops

There is absolutely no need to use carabineers for attaching bands to a bar.

The bathroom scale is increasing height, to the resistance will be higher. I am not sure by how much but I saw others adding extra height by putting wooden boards on their platform, specifically to increase resistance. You can put some string on the bar with a weight, like plumbline, and adjust it with no scale so the plumbline just barely comes off the platform. Now you put the scale on and pull again, with knees a little bent, so the plumbline comes off again, so now you know the band is at the same stretch amount it will be when the scale is removed. I like that you used glue, any are screwing them on which I feel is overkill, I guess they think it has to be strong, but the feet will be experiencing very little force, unless you are throwing the thing about the place!

this is a a disaster what a plonker is it a joke