Advice on buying a power rack for a home gym

Roger Marbles

Hi guys,

Thinking of buying a power rack as part of my new home gym. Wondering if past buyers or otherwise could point me in the direction of a good one, either online or in a shop. If it had the capability to do pull ups as well that would be ace.

Thanks in advance

Jarren

this one perhaps

http://www.irish-lifting.com/power-rack-pe-197.html

rubadub

many here use
www.irish-lifting.com

I have only got plates from him, which are still in perfect nick. The owner is a member here called Mickk

I think a few people got a freebie thrown in if they bought a few items, like a dip attachment for the power rack.

EDIT: beaten to it!

Gaz

Yeah, Irish Lifting all the way ... I got all my stuff from Mickk, sound guy and he threw in a few extras for free.

MyPeopleDrankTheSoup

i got my setup from power house fitness, posted about it here, still working well:
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=65582683#post65582683

and this is the link to the actual stuff:
http://www.powerhouse-fitness.co.uk/premium-strength-package.php

make sure to contact them either online or by phone and knock a few euro off the price, all sales reps have room to hackle, i think i got £80 off or something.

soc$

Gaz wrote: »

Yeah, Irish Lifting all the way ... I got all my stuff from Mickk, sound guy and he threw in a few extras for free.

This is cool - pretty much exactly what I want

Roger Marbles

Gaz wrote: »

Yeah, Irish Lifting all the way ... I got all my stuff from Mickk, sound guy and he threw in a few extras for free.

Cheers

Can I ask you what exercises you use those two straps hanging from the rack for?

Gaz

They are for hanging leg raises.

chadmustang

Roger Marbles wrote: »

Hi guys,

Thinking of buying a power rack as part of my new home gym. Wondering if past buyers or otherwise could point me in the direction of a good one, either online or in a shop. If it had the capability to do pull ups as well that would be ace.

Thanks in advance

Agreed with everyone.. Mick will sort you out with whatever you need for a great price!

Deadly Combination

Gaz wrote: »

Yeah, Irish Lifting all the way ... I got all my stuff from Mickk, sound guy and he threw in a few extras for free.

How much did you pay for this cage and how long ago and any problems with it ???

TommyKnocker

Deadly Combination wrote: »

How much did you pay for this cage and how long ago and any problems with it ???

The cage was bought from Irish lifting, so I would prefere you contacted them for prices please rather then ask for prices on the forum. Prices are shown on Irish Lifting site

The guy who owns/runs Irish Lifting also posts on the forum, so you could drop him a PM to check prices. His forum name is Mickk.

As for the quality, I have never seen a negative post on the forum about equipment purchased from Irish Lifting.

FYI: there is what looks like a good deal for home gym equipment available on Gumtree at the moment


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Roger Marbles

Thanks guys

Deadly Combination

Roger Marbles - if you buy a rack before i do please let us know if its anygood etc and if its worth buying as they is a wide range to choose from Cheers

Roger Marbles

Will do

rubadub

You can arrange to collect stuff from irish lifting in his gym in dublin city centre or in the warehouse in sandyford ind. estate.

I think there was talk of there being a showroom in sandyford so you could go view the equipment. I am not sure if this is the case, there are a few gyms around so I expect some members here could confirm, or just email him.

Hanley

rubadub wrote: »

You can arrange to collect stuff from irish lifting in his gym in dublin city centre

No you can't. The gym's long gone. They may do it in Fighting Fit on Camden Street, but I dunno if they would for bulky items.

chillywilly

Sorry for the off topic question, I didn't want to start up a whole thread. I was wondering if you had any experience in putting a power rack in the up stairs of a house. Im only starting off so for the foreseeable future I wouldn't have weight in excess of 70kg. I was thinking of putting down some board and rubber mats on top. Opinions?

Tigger

If the upstairs is made of wood then I wouldn't if it's hollow core (concrete) then no probe

If you want to and it's wood I'd be very wary as I'm not a big lifter but mu rack plys me plus my squat would put 3-400 kilos on a space 5x5 feet

Mabey if you put down Inch plywood to spread the load but I'd be concerned

Mellor

Tigger wrote: »

If the upstairs is made of wood then I wouldn't if it's hollow core (concrete) then no probe

If you want to and it's wood I'd be very wary as I'm not a big lifter but mu rack plys me plus my squat would put 3-400 kilos on a space 5x5 feet

Mabey if you put down Inch plywood to spread the load but I'd be concerned

that wouldn't help tbh, its preading the laod over the same are so it won't do anything.
It's not an option with a timer floor. So many thing that might go wrong.
even if people have done it before, moving up weights, or even just repeative motive would eventually lead it to breaking.

Concrete floor or in the shed.

rubadub

Hanley wrote: »

No you can't. The gym's long gone. They may do it in Fighting Fit on Camden Street, but I dunno if they would for bulky items.

Oh right, I thought fighting fit might have been the gym, I picked up plates in there once too. On the site it says

We also offer collection of gym equipment orders from Fighting Fit in Camden St or our warehouse at 87 Furze Road, Sandyford Industrial Estate. You can either pay on collection or pay online.
Alternatively delivery of an order of up to 30kg's costs just €7 or a full pallet is only €50 to anywhere in Ireland!

Mellor wrote: »

that wouldn't help tbh, its preading the laod over the same are so it won't do anything.

But it would spread it over many individual floor boards, and not just be the small surface area of the bottom bars on the ground acting on a few floorboards. I have some dodgy floorboards in my room ever since I moved in. I have seen broken ones in other houses too, under the carpet. If I was to put squat stands down on the dodgy ones I could imagine them breaking through. Its sort of like that question -which would hurt you more, a 8 stone woman standing on you in stilettos or a 13 stone many in normal shoes.

I would still not like the idea of it upstairs though.

Tigger

Mellor wrote: »

that wouldn't help tbh, its preading the laod over the same are so it won't do anything.
It's not an option with a timer floor. So many thing that might go wrong.
even if people have done it before, moving up weights, or even just repeative motive would eventually lead it to breaking.

Concrete floor or in the shed.

Plywood is 8x4 so if you put the rack across/on two sheets that would be 64 sq feet instead of 25 but I agree that its probably a bad idea