For our needs the wood power rack works great.
Build a power rack from wood.
Ok first off don t think that building a wooden power rack is crazy.
It really is not and the truth is most people are not going to be doing 500lb lifts and this could prob even handle that if it had too.
Often the body will plateau at some point once.
I routinely load up 200 on squats with no issues working out 3 times a week since the build.
For people serious about getting fit working all of the muscles groups in a challenging way is necessary in order to continue building muscle.
Or if you did lift inside for bench it would be a reverse lift off.
Wooden power rack july 23 2014 at 6 52 pm but then you couldn t lift bench inside the rack with the safety bars in place because you wouldn t be able to rack them on the back set of supports.
I used 1 2 pipe and had to.
The diy design costs less than 100 and includes detailed plans to frame it all together.
A power rack offers much needed variety to your workout because you can now lift heavy alone using the innovative safety bar setup.
A more basic design is this wooden power rack by endofthree fitness.
See plans photo credit.
It only took one day to buy supplies 120 and build.
This homemade stand can be used for both squats and bench press.
Jostle first off thanks for the detailed plans and pics.