A total of 9 reviews of this product on Reddit.
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With these 24″ racks you’ll still need the room outside of the cage for your lifts. The folding racks aren’t made to work inside of it
Could you fit a 48″ cage where you would be working inside of it?
https://www.amazon.com/Titan-Short-Power-Squat-Deadlift/dp/B00NAHQP90
This titan is less than 72″ tall and comes with safety rods. This is a good option for someone working out alone.
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There are some cheap squat racks on amazon you could buy yourself if management will at least let you put it in the gym. Example
You could also do high rep low weight on the barbell in addition to the Smith machine, and you could practice cleans and snatches to get comfortable with lifting heavier weights safely (but doing front squats).
But the Smith machine is fine in the meantime and better than nothing…
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You’d be surprised how small a rack can be – if it’s a ceiling height issue there are shortened power racks like this one. If you can fit a bench press you can fit that instead and have way more functionality.
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Sadly, the manufacturer of my current rack doesn’t make safety bars for it, and the hole spacing is abnormal, so off-brand accessories are also not an option.
I have been bouncing back and forth between:
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Thank you (love your name btw!)
So this – http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00NAHQP90/
plus a barbell, weights and bench is all I need then right?
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how low? I bought this shorty because my ceilings are pretty low. I have trouble with OHP haha but the rest is working out okay.
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Yes, there’s a Titan cage on Amazon that’s 71.5″ tall. That’s from a quick search so I’m sure there are more.
link: http://www.amazon.com/Titan-Power-Short-Deadlift-crossfit/dp/B00NAHQP90/
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depends on your definition of smaller. if your ceilings are too low, I like this one that’s only 6′ tall.
I’m thinking about building a basement gym, and our ceilings are only 7’6″, so a 6′ tall rack would work much better for me – the only negative is no standing OHP in the basement.
A good budget half rack could also be used as an alternative
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I’d say it depends how much weight you are looking to lift right off the bat. I was window shopping for home gym equipment yesterday – get your plates off of CL, but for the big equipment you can get new stuff pretty reasonably:
My setup I’m lusting after right now:
Power rack – $300 free shipping Amazon Prime – they have a taller one too, I just have lowish ceilings in my basement so this is the one I was looking at
Adjustable bench – $140 free shipping Amazon Prime
High Quality Olympic Barbell – $125 free shipping Amazon Prime again
For the weights themselves, I’d definitely scour CL, since new weights are around $1.05/lb for iron and double that for anything rubberized. You might have good luck at someplace like Play It Again Sports if you have those in your area.
Alternatively, these are the cheapest 45s I found at $50 each shipped.
For $1000 you could have all the basic equipment and 315 worth of 45s and possibly the smaller plates as well with the remainder, all brand new. A weight tree can be had for $50 to keep it all organized too, and some of those rubber impact mats underneath and your done. A set of Bowflex 1090 adjustable dumbbells can be added later new for under $300 and give your between 10 and 90 pounds (hence the name) work with.
I don’t want to deal with moving the stuff in the future so I’ll probably end up holding off a couple years until we’re in our next house, but after that I’m definitely building a quality home powerlifting setup for myself. 1.5 years of gym membership fees will pay for everything I need, and maybe I can get the wife to use them too if they’re not in the “intimidating free-weight section” of the gym.
