Build A Power Rack From Wood

Often the body will plateau at some point once.

Build a power rack from wood.

For people serious about getting fit working all of the muscles groups in a challenging way is necessary in order to continue building muscle. The design uses 2 x4 boards and takes just 2 hours to build. A more basic design is this wooden power rack by endofthree fitness. I built this rack last summer and it has held up very well.

A power rack offers much needed variety to your workout because you can now lift heavy alone using the innovative safety bar setup. 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. The diy design costs less than 100 and includes detailed plans to frame it all together. 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.

Or if you did lift inside for bench it would be a reverse lift off. See plans photo credit. I routinely load up 200 on squats with no issues working out 3 times a week since the build. I used 1 2 pipe and had to.

It only took one day to buy supplies 120 and build. Truth is i would have loved to buy a rogue squat stand or power rack but at 600 it was just not in the cards. For our needs the wood power rack works great.