Combining exercise equipment

I used to have two benches in my home "gym." One was for dumbbell lifts (one small bar per hand), the other for barbell/straight-bar bench presses, and the likes.

During a recent move the movers disassembled the straight-bar bench. Looking at the pieces I started wondering: Could I actually combine the two and save some space?

Absolutely, I found after fiddling with the equipment. I put the dumbbell bench in front of the straight-bar bench's piece that holds the straight bar.

Now, when I need to use the straight bar I will just move the bench below the other piece.

Now, though, I'm wondering if that stand will be able to support a bar with 300 pounds of weights on it.

Not sure, but why worry about that right now. I can't remember the last time I lifted that much. :)

But, of course after writing that I had to test if that could be a problem. I used 135 and 205 pounds on the stand and it seemed stable enough to give this a try.

Honestly, I rarely ever go above 205 anyway.

- Christoph

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