Power Rack with Cable Pulley and Pull Up Bar Squat Cage Home Gym

Really impressed with this equipment so far. Been using it for a few weeks now and really good fit for home gym.Relatively straight forward to set up by myself.Would highly recommend.

Been using this rack for just over a month now and overall, I do like it. I had a squat stand before (and the spotter arms were broken), so this was a sizeable upgrade.It took me about 3-4 hours to assemble on my own. I would suggest having someone help you assemble this to a) speed things up, and b) help with assembling the top part of the rack, where you need an extra pair of hands to hold things up whilst you screw them in.Good stuff:1. It feels sturdy for the weights I’m lifting. I’ve not had any more than 140kg racked on this, so I can’t attest to its sturdiness near its 250kg capacity limit, but for for people who are in the novice/intermediate lifter zones, this should be plenty strong enough to deal with any weights you’re racking2. Pull-up bar feels sturdy. I’m ~85kg, so not the heaviest, but always good to know that the attachments are not flimsy3. The cable pulley comes with a lat pulldown bar, and a straight bar. These are good for doing a variety of exercises and it’s nice to have these included, because they could be anywhere between £20-50 each of you had to buy them separately4. The rack comes with a leg “rest” to tuck your knees under when doing lat pulldowns, which is a nice touch, as I wasn’t aware this was included when originally purchasing the rack. It’s labelled as a foam roller in the assembly instructions, not sure why5. You can use Olympic/2” plates on the cable pulley and also store them on the storage pins. The pulley loading pins and the storage pins are designed for 1”/standard plates, but they still work regardless6. You get 4 bar hooks, as well as the spotter pins, which have bar hooks included on them as well. I was a little surprised at this, I was expecting to only get 2 bar hooks. The extra ones I’m using to rack my belts, wraps, bands and plate clips on. Storage ftw!7. Spotter arms feel solid - I’ve dropped the bar on them a couple of times and also used them for pin pressing movements, and they have worked great.8. I have a couple of other attachments already and these fit perfectly onto the cable pulley system. These things are generally designed in a universal fashion so I would have been surprised if I couldn’t get them to fit, but still, worth noting (single hand foam grip from a resistance band set, and a v-bar close grip pulldown grip)Things I don’t like:1. Some of the bar hooks were partly rusty when I opened the rack out of its packaging. It doesn’t seem to affect the usage of this item2. I like the black powder coating on the rack, so it’s unfortunate that after just two sessions using the rack, I noticed the bar hooks had scraped the coating off the rack where I had slotted them in3. Unless I’m blind, there doesn’t seem to be a way to fix this rack to the floor to increase stability. I assume this is because of the storage pins and the fact that once these are loaded, they should add stability, but still, nice to have the option?4. You can’t have the top storage pins loaded when you’re benching or squatting, because the plates loaded on these pins will get in your way5. The cable pulley system can get in the way when benching. In fairness, this is mentioned in the description, but still worth noting. It is, however, entirely possible to bench in this rack without straddling the back of the rack as the bar hooks are quite long, so you can roll the bar to the edge for extra space6. The bar hooks have a support grip on them to help bear the load of the bar, but they are susceptible to coming undone when a bar is untracked or re-racked, so you will find yourself constantly re-adjusting these7. The bar hooks scuff easily, and have a cheap shiny chrome finish to them. They could look so much better if they had a matte “steel” finish to them8. The bar hooks are, in my opinion, inferior to the J-hook style. They don’t really allow for sliding the bar off the hooks because there’s a hard stop at the end of the hook, unlike the J-hook style. I’m guessing that this rack is a fairly generic design though, so you could probably get some generic J-hooks somewhere and they would likely fit9. The assembly instructions are questionable. Very little in terms of textual instruction - they’ve opted for big, messy, noisy pictures. I got a number of things wrong, which could have been avoided if things were explained better10. One of the cables “broke” within a couple of uses - by broke, I mean that the plastic surround on the cable ripped open, exposing the interior cable. It still works for now, but I imagine it’s only a matter of time until it needs replacing11. The foam stopper on the “row”/bottom cable pulley broke after a month of usage. This stopper is meant to stop the cable retracting too far into the pulley system, unfortunately it was crushed by the cable wheel it sits underneath12. I really wish the slot holes on the rack were numbered. It’s difficult to remember where to set things up for the variety of exercises I do. A minor inconvenience.