As long as you weigh the uprights down with something (sandbags, dumbbells, etc) it should be fine. You don't really need safeties if you're training smart.
I got some industrial scaffolding. I think that it is a good framework into which one could build a cage. I imagine that they are available used for cheap all over the US.
Bretty gud start. Maybe consider: >set of homemade jerk blocks (can double as safeties) >adjustable bench >belt-squat belt >wall/ceiling-mounted pullup bar >high/low cables and a loading pin >EZ bar >light adjustable dumbbells
Oh i need a new bench alright
My current bench is made out of wood
Dont want to mount stuff into the ceiling because rental
Ez bar is actually something i should get
I have some dumbbells they go up to 15kg tho
>"belt" >sounds like lifting belt >"dip belt" >won't hold enough weight >"belt squat" >sounds like I'm referring to the whole machine
Tell me what to say then professor.
Frick I had the same setup but cast iron plates (not a big choice during lockdown) in an apartment. I don't know if bench or squat was worse, but reracking the weights was pretty bad. I got my gf to spot on bench but squat no way, plan b was to try to dump it on the bed to at least save the floor but I couldn't really push for big lifts because of this.
I would just buy a hexbar and do squats from some elevated point with it.
Can't even remember how many times safeties on racks and cages saved my dumb ass on squats.
Apparently, the military is using them as well, so all photos of their training are suspect. They probably did it to make the troons feel more empowered by lifting something visually impressive.
https://www.roguefitness.com/rogue-us-mil-spec-bumper-plates?sku=WE0003
I have had a similar setup for years and only ever had one incident. I had a bit too much forward momentum reracking after squatting and knocked over the stands. The bar twisted as it went down and I was able to step forward and not get hurt. Freaked me out though and now I always keep plates on the bases to weigh them down.
Those plates look uncanny, like they are Styrofoam
They're out of rubber
Yeah but they don't have a smooth finish like rubber
It's some granular rubber thing, they cut my fingers in the beginning a lot
autism at work
Well tell them to go get some more??
Lmao no i mean the weights are made out of some granules
Yo ho ho he took a bite of gum gum
I quit lifting for a few years. I just left all of my cast iron weights outside. I hosed them off and they are as good as new.
As long as you weigh the uprights down with something (sandbags, dumbbells, etc) it should be fine. You don't really need safeties if you're training smart.
Nothing on them theyre wobbly as shit and i should get new ones
Thats why i have not yet tried squatting 100kg, 92.5 is my max
Its okay but id prefer a cage honestly
It handles 100Kg, but you should place some plate at the feet so it wobbles less.
I bought a cage a couple months later.
One side is wobbly
It should handle up to 150 but im scared anon lmao
Which cage did you buy?
Bought the 500€ decathlon cage with the top and bottom pulleys
Hmm thats a bit too much for me honestly
Also my place isnt big enough
But ill look at decathlon in general
Did the cage come in multiple packages?
I paid 20€ to get it delivered and installed
Sweet
One time i was benching 65Kg and i got stuck under the bar
On a wooden bench fricking Kek
With all my power i joinked the bar up
>You don't really need safeties if you're training smart.
Sounds like famous last words to me
>You don't really need safeties if you're training sm...ACK
I've had this same rack before, reracking was always a fun experience
I have only oly barbell and same kind of weight and i think it is based.
Doing muscle clean and press alternate with front squat with pause every day and i dont need anything else.
Id love a cage to just have more security honestly
I also bench on a wooden bench lmao i should get that sorted out
Clarence kennedy Pilled
I got some industrial scaffolding. I think that it is a good framework into which one could build a cage. I imagine that they are available used for cheap all over the US.
Bretty gud start. Maybe consider:
>set of homemade jerk blocks (can double as safeties)
>adjustable bench
>belt-squat belt
>wall/ceiling-mounted pullup bar
>high/low cables and a loading pin
>EZ bar
>light adjustable dumbbells
Oh i need a new bench alright
My current bench is made out of wood
Dont want to mount stuff into the ceiling because rental
Ez bar is actually something i should get
I have some dumbbells they go up to 15kg tho
They have risen.
Absolutely inspirational.
>>belt-squat belt
>"belt"
>sounds like lifting belt
>"dip belt"
>won't hold enough weight
>"belt squat"
>sounds like I'm referring to the whole machine
Tell me what to say then professor.
>not doing powercleans from laying position
NGMI
the rare romanian get-up
With added spinal fusion
Frick I had the same setup but cast iron plates (not a big choice during lockdown) in an apartment. I don't know if bench or squat was worse, but reracking the weights was pretty bad. I got my gf to spot on bench but squat no way, plan b was to try to dump it on the bed to at least save the floor but I couldn't really push for big lifts because of this.
Its okay now but at the start it was obnoxious
imgaine being found dead by the police 3 weeks later crushed under a failed 1rm
Lmao that's why im not doing 100Kg squats on this thing
>100Kg squats
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I would just buy a hexbar and do squats from some elevated point with it.
Can't even remember how many times safeties on racks and cages saved my dumb ass on squats.
I call it "dyel with poser plates" setup.
Aren't you absolutely ashamed to have 10kg plates of that size???
Apparently, the military is using them as well, so all photos of their training are suspect. They probably did it to make the troons feel more empowered by lifting something visually impressive.
https://www.roguefitness.com/rogue-us-mil-spec-bumper-plates?sku=WE0003
You're only lifting one plate, how fricked could you be
I have had a similar setup for years and only ever had one incident. I had a bit too much forward momentum reracking after squatting and knocked over the stands. The bar twisted as it went down and I was able to step forward and not get hurt. Freaked me out though and now I always keep plates on the bases to weigh them down.