Fitness Reality Power Cage Squat Rack with Optional LAT Pulldown, Cable Crossover, 800 lb Capacity, Multi-Grip Pull-Up Bar, Adjustable Safety Bars, Strength Training for Home Gym

I have used this cage daily for roughly 3 months and the pros far outweigh the cons. Let's start with the cons: (1) without being weighted down, the cage is a bit unstable for some exercises. Examples: I do leaning lateral arm raises where the upright is my anchor. Without weight on the cage, the rack would topple over. Also, when using heavy weight for landmine chest presses and using a plyo box as a psuedo fulcrum or point of support, the cage will lift off the floor at the point where the landmine attaches to the frame (think of a seesaw with only one person; person goes down while the opposite side goes up). That said, this is the tradeoff you make when you consciously purchase an inexpensive (note, I did not say cheap) piece of equipment with a small footprint designed for home use. Most of this is easily countered with weights low and at the corners as seen in the picture, provided you have the luxury of other weight available to perform the exercises. In my case, I use dumbbells for the leaning lateral raises and bumper plates for the landmine chest presses and leave the iron plates on the holders. (2) The smaller chrome hooks (not the long safety bars) that come with it leave something to be desired. As a result of the design, if you are shifting the bar laterally before un-racking, they can come unhinged if you are not careful. And, if you care about this sort of thing, they do not have high backs and you will scratch the uprights and potentially your bar when re-racking. It also makes for a clunky re-rack as the the hook is not flush with the upright. I opted for third party j-hooks with high backs and hard plastic "padding" (not the Fitness Reality ones) that solved this. (3) I would have liked the pull-up bar to have knurling. I use hockey tape, but it's not the same. All that said, I have zero regrets about this purchase. I have not experienced the negatives in some of the other reviews. The item was packaged very well and there were no defects out of the box that I noticed. For the price, this is a sturdy piece of equipment and is manufactured well with quality material and I expect it to last much longer than I originally anticipated. It was easy to assemble and when all bolts are torqued properly, there is minimal to no wobble. I can see how some people would have issues with hitting their face on the upper horizontal support bar when re-racking after a squat, but I face the opposite direction. I imagine these folks have a mirror at the rear of the cage and this is why they face that direction. The hooks don't have to be on the rear upright where that support bar is, either. Additionally, there are plenty of universal 2x2 attachments available (dip bars, j-hooks, landmine, etc.) that make this rack a solid centerpiece to build your home gym around. I opted not to purchase the lat pull down attachment and instead use after market pulleys and resistance bands, further enhancing the usefulness of this cage. With this cage and available attachments, there is almost no exercise that I cannot do at home that I could have done at the gym. I would highly recommend this item if you are able to get it at a reasonable price.

Let me break a couple of things down real quick..I work for a living, sometimes 6-7 nights a week. I am pushing 50, but want to get back into shape. The government as we know takes most of our money, so I am pretty tight with what I get. I shopped around when looking for a squate rack. Even stooped so low as to browse the high priced, used trash on Facebook Marketplace. I shop a lot on Amazon, it's convenient due to my work schedule. So after looking around, I finally settled on this Fitness Reality squat rack and lat attachment set up. It took awhile to get here as it was being shipped by UPS for some reason, and in seperate packages due on seperate dates. UPS if you don't know, doesn't generally use careful hands when it comes to packages, and is not timely at all. So while spending a few days peeking out the windows like a package thief, I finally caught the deliveries securely. Alright the fun part. When I was a kid I use to rip open packages and toss the instructions to the wind. Not so these days. A word of advice, keep a couple of trash bags handy when unpacking the parts, as Fitness Reality goes out of the way to carefully package parts. I examined all parts, gathered up tools and set everything out for an easy assemble. Pretty much everything you need to will come with the kit, but there are easier ways, such as using an impact wrench, socket/wrech set, and make sure you have a utility knife to get through the packaging. I started out putting together the squat rack, NOT overly tightening anything. I kept EVERYTHING finger tight until even the lat attachment was finally assembled...just made things easier to fit. Then, I did a couple final shakes of the units while jumping around doing the final tightenings. The squat rack went together quick and flawless, instructions were not needed, but were included. It was a cake walk job from just looking at the diagram. The lat attachment however, lol...I had a couple of issues. For some reason I decided to use the instructions. Don't do that unless you need to. It was a mess, steps jumped ahead of themselves, parts stepped ahead of themselves, bolts seemed mislabled, etc...My best advice, lay your pieces out, make sure they are all there. Browse the instructions to see where the parts are located on the unit, then just jump in and toss it together. Again, I can not stress this enough...hand tighten ONLY until completed. If you do it that way, you should have zero problems. For my purchases, I have zero complaints. I have seen reviews and Youtube videos where people say chipped paint, or rust, missing parts, etc...All of my stuff was there, packaged great and with care from Fitness Reality. The price was extremely great and resonable, especially for what all this kit can do. Just know that if you are having them delivered by UPS, keep a close eye out, as the delivery dates they give do NOT match...EVER. UPS will leave your stuff exposed outside for all to see and in any kind of weather. They do NOT use kid gloves with your purchases either. And, for whatever reason, they are not requiring a signature for packages...just a dump and go. This is why I prefer Amazon, the delivery drivers generally follow my instructions and place packages on my enclosed deck, out of sight and weather. So yea, hope you enjoyed my ramblings. I'm blue collar, look for deals, and am NOT a paid representative of Fitness Reality or Amazon. If you have any questions about this product I will be glad to answer. I will further note that the lat pulldown system has 1" inch plate holders, so I bought seperate 2" slides that go right over them to accomodate my 2" plates. I also didn't feel comfortable with the 2 small safety bars and ordered larger ones...but that's because I turn into a beast when tossing around weights, it has nothing to do with the actual small safety bars. I fully reccommend this product from this company and in no way, shape, or form regret making these purchases. Good lift to you all!!!

I ordered this from Fitness Reality website. It was cheaper and they didn't charge me tax! I paid $299. Most places on amazon want more and for the Lat Pull Down attachment, they want even more than the cage! ! I believe its $229 on Fitness Reality. Anyways, assembly was pretty simple and I'm not mechanically inclined in anyway! Got it together fairly quick, by myself. Maybe an hour or so. I did a video to show my friends and they caught that it was swaying which I didn't notice too much, when I did pull-ups. After seeing the video myself, I went back to make sure it was tightened enough. It wasn't. After the proper tightening, it was now very secure! If I have one knock on it is that there isn't a lot of room in the cage itself. I leave my bar and weights on when I bench and its on the outside of the cage. When I go to the inside to do pull-ups, there isn't a lot of room. I sometimes hit myself on the bar or the support on the back of the cage. Maybe I need more control of my body? Feels a little cramped. But for the price, its a small complaint. It does everything I need and holds up nicely. You can buy attachments for the cage made by other companies as long as they have the same dimensions. I bought some dip bars from an off brand and they fit nicely. Its not a heavy duty piece of equipment that you'd find at your local gyms but very solid for the garage or workout room. I'm 5'9 and 180#s, works for me. Taller people might feel scrunched when doing pull-ups. I really only use it for bench and pull-up as I do not have enough equipment for anything else or the Lat Pull Down feature, yet. Overall, I would give this 4.5 stars!

I struggled with giving this 4 or 5 stars. I really regret not getting a different cage that was more sturdy, larger, and had the option for a lat pulldown. But I was being cheap on the one piece of equipment I should not have been cheap about. Anyhow for the price you absolutely cannot beat this cage. It's good quality, but does have many trade offs for price. If you really can't spend the money, and aren't a heavy lifter then I can recommend this all day long. My negatives, which aren't really huge negatives: The cage does move around a fair bit. If you like to rack your weights aggressively, like I do, then be prepared for a second where you wonder if the cage is going to tip backwards, or flop side to side. Honestly it's not going to flip, it has those back legs that would keep it from that, but it still feels a bit flimsy when racking weight. But just having the weight sitting on the cage is very sturdy and unracking it is not an issue. I'm also not a fan of the matte powdercoating they are using, it really scratches way too easily. I'm comparing this to commercial gym units where I can throw an Olympic bar at the cage and you won;'t see the slightest scratch, but of course that's comparing $10k versus what this costs so it's an unfair comparison. Still, I would have paid just a bit more for better powdercoating. I also wasn't overly fond of the pull up bars. I have only 80" ceilings in my basement so I had to hang them upside down. Yeah it's possible this contribute slightly to the flimsiness. I can do pullups with no issues, but have to bend my legs up. Once again not a big deal for the price. The only true negatives are the weight holders, they are very bad. They will totally ruin the knurling on your bar as they are metal to metal. They also come loose if you laterally translate the bar even just a little, very scary and dangerous. The first thing you should replace is these, with some nice rubber coated J-hooks. I also added some Titan plate holders. Last negative is it's unable to accommodate a lat pulldown. This isn't an issue with how it was advertised as I knew this when I purchased it. But it wouldn't have been difficult to engineer an addon lat pulldown for this. But I'm sure they would prefer you buy their higher end cage, which I can't blame them. Anyhow overall it's very positive and a nice cage if you are on a budget. But if you have the money and the room don't be cheap and look at other options.

I'm extremely pleased with the product. Assembly was straightforward and all the holes lined up! Very sturdy construction. The attached pictures show an addition I made to turn give the rack a cable-crossover functionality. These pictures represent my Version 1.0. All the parts can be purchased at Lowes. The rack has two perfect attachment points for the pulleys. See picture 1. This shows a threaded eye bolt and 1 1/2" fixed pulley. Two lock nuts hold it in place but it is purposely NOT tight so it has the ability to rotate. Picture 2 shows a length of zinc coated square steel tubing from Lowes. Three threaded eye bolts connect the additional cables to the center cable on the rack. Picture 3 shows me pulling on the two handles. I think this works really well. Keep in mind, this is Version 1. One could probably cut the steel tubing length down. With the full length, it doesn't seem to hit the cage but it potentially could. NOTE: I did try this without the steel tubing and I didn't like the feel. As one completes the motion, the angle change in the cables was significant enough to notice. Your mileage may vary and you may prefer that characteristic. That tubing was the most expensive piece at about $20. Everything else is dirt cheap. If you decide to try something like this, please be EXTREMELY careful. I am a Mechanical Engineer by education so this was something I was comfortable doing. Review the load limits of ALL the components you intend to use. For instance, the two fixed pulleys from Lowes have a safe working load of 420 pounds. I used 1/8" vinyl coated braided wire rope. Blue Hawk brand with a safe working load of 340 pounds. Make sure ANY carabiners you use to make connections are rated for HIGH LOAD and NOT for hanging keys on your belt loop. I can't stress this enough. You do NOT want something breaking on you during full extension. IMPORTANT: Make sure you terminate the ends of the cables correctly. Properly swaged deformable collars are likely the best approach but I used a threaded clamp for this setup. I will likely change to a swaged connection because the clamping hardware can rub against your arm during use. Also, use thimbles on the ends of both cables to protect the cable attachment points.

This rack has been good for solo lifting at home. Doing rack Pulls, pin squats, and pin pressing. It helps you try max effort and work your sticking points in bench, deadlift and squat. I lift alone and the pins give me peace I have a spotter and I won’t destroy my patio floor if I need to ditch the weight. It’s helped my max shoot up in numbers since I start in the hardest point for me in those lifts grinding thru sticking points to lock out. The pins really Help doing all these lifts solo and you can ditch the weight easy without a problem, but I don’t really have to since I’m starting with the load on the pins themselves, if I can’t lift it in that weak spot I take weight off.. Its a feat of strength training I adopted back in high school and I missed from home workouts. If you haven’t tried pins squats ect give it a go. I put towels on the pins so it doesn’t make so much noise and keeps it from getting scratched. Plus it doesn’t move around easy the towels keep the barbel in the same spot as if you racked it. Great quality and build. It Does shake but it’s not really bad, it’s not commercial gym racks but nothing to really be afraid of since i control whatever weight I use when I put it back. I’m also not hitting 700lb DL, bench not squat at my house. I’ve loaded 390 on the j hooks and pins and it doesn’t make a difference like 225 is on there. You should control the weight anyways at that high of number for safety concerns so if u slam your weights around like a monkey probably spend an extra 200 for a more sturdy cage but I have not seen any issue with it even though the comments say otherwise. I was skeptical and garage gym reviews on YouTube showed me this is the best bang for buck with there tests/review they did in the rack. Best upgrade I’ve made to my home gym. Now I gotta buy more plates lol

About me: I have never used a power cage before and have only trained for about 2 years, during which I have never squatted. I have no basis for comparison to other cages but I have owned other fitness products before with comparable engineering and manufacturing specifications. I ordered the "power cage only" option, and paid $260 (right now at the height of COVID price hikes, this is the deal of the century). 0) I have had mixed experiences with delivery lately, most likely due to COVID induced congestion. This package arrived 2 days earlier than expected. If you are reading the 0-star reviews from people frustrated with shipping issues, know that it is unlikely to be the the fault of Fitness Reality. 1) The packaging (a single long box) arrived torn and banged up, but there was not a single scratch on any component -- the wrapping did its job well. The finish is very nice to the touch and pleasant to look at. 2) All the small parts were tightly packaged individually and stored together in a compact box. Nuts and bolts were sealed in hard plastic + cardboard like you see in hardware stores. Also included are two pieces of steel with the shape of the hex nuts cut into them (I guess you can call the wrenches). No additional tools are required for assembly. 3) A five year old can assemble this with the crystal clear idiot-proof instruction booklet. However, there is one crucial step in the assembly that the booklet skips. The instructions tell you assemble two "halves" (defined as the rectangular frame formed by bolting together a base, two long steel beams, and a "roof" bar) of the cage. Then, you are to connect said two halves/frames by bolting the pull-up bar and back braces onto them. How to do this safely and efficiently is left as an exercise to the reader. Hint: It is possible to do it alone using 1) a wall or vertical surface to lean one of the frames against (at ~15 degrees) and 2) a stool to stand on to loosely bolt the top of the pull-up bar to the frames before straightening and tightening. This can be considered a trivial mental exercise that does not subtract from the quality of the product. 4) The design is obviously of high quality. It is not exactly a piece of high-tech, but I was surprised to see how precisely all the pieces aligned. Every bolt fits perfectly, allowing no play once tightened. The bolts all come with nylon lock nuts, and can be tightened extremely well. 5) The cage does not move at all while doing pull-ups and leg raises (I am about 190lb). To be precise, it does not move at any of the joints. Of course there is a slight rocking of the cage as a whole when one applies their entire body weight because the assembled product only weighs 160lb or so. Hope I'm not making this review too prematurely. I'll be back to edit it if the welds comes apart in the coming weeks ;)

Finished assembling my new Fitness Reality gym. I gave this workout cage a full 5 stars with the caveat that lifting and bolting the whole thing together solo was at least two hours total but everything fit together perfectly. Adhere to the instruction book recommending NOT tightening any bolts down until final assembly, then go back and tighten everything at the very end in its upright position. This product way exceeded my expectations for ruggedness, stability, heaviness and overall quality of design and manufacture. Nothing about this product is cheap, flimsy or wobbly. I was considering a squat rack for under $200 but read reviews and saw video examples of just how disappointed those customers were when they got the thing assembled. This is absolutely a superior product by many magnitudes, really not even comparable. What is really nice about this cage is its versatility with both free-weight squat AND chest press with an Olympic 7’ bar. I purchased the “j-hook” product accessory for the chest press position, allowing easier lift off and finish for chest press. For squat press, the solid heavy duty support bars stay in the lower position while the chromes bar rests stay in the upper position to allow easy lift off. The j-hooks, support bars and squat bar hooks stay where they are, just need to move the Olympic bar either from squat position or chest position to change exercises. Took a few days to get used to the cramped quarters in my laundry room converted-to-home-gym, but now it feels just like working out at my old (now cancelled) mega gym. I couldn’t be happier with this whole set up. Thank you Fitness Reality!!!

This is my first rack. I have been using this rack for a few weeks now. I am 6'1 and I am able to do chin ups in, though sometimes my feet hit the floor, either way it still usable. I can also squat and bench inside the rack without any issues. Sometimes its a little difficult doing lunge style squats inside the rack, I have attached safety arms to the outside of the rack to perform them in front of the rack. My only complaint about the chin up bars is that its smooth metal, light gnarling would have been nice for some grip. I worked around this by wrapping hockey tape around the bars for the chin up part, works perfectly. I do weighted chin ups and it feels sturdy to me. My only other complaint about it is that it has no way to secure to the floor. I worked around this by putting "all-round" over the feet and screwing into the floor (able to do so where I have it). This keeps it from tipping and sliding when doing dips off of the dip attachment i bought, and also when doing any band work where I am standing out from the rack. You can also use 6' barbells with this rack if you are limited on space like me. The collars will be really close to the safeties which can be annoying but they will sit safely outside the J hooks and safety pins. I probably wont be able to push the limits of this for a while, I am only ~160 lbs and only bench ~165 lbs and squat ~170 lbs though I feel like this rack can handle heavier loads (it's tubular steel). I bought some additional j hooks and safety arms for the outside. The option for attaching a lat pull down machine is a bonus (if it ever comes back in stock); however I was able to build my own upper and lower cable system off of the rack. I built it a few weeks ago, I have only checked the bolts once and all were still as tight as they were when I put it together. Assembly was pretty straight forward, I was able to do it by myself without any issues. The fact that it uses 1" holes means there are A LOT of compatible attachments.

Très bonne qualité , très confortable à utiliser ! Juste un bémol d’une barre de support : les trous pas du bon côté obligé de rafistoler 😅 mais rien de gênant au montage!

Ottima rack e bella bella... esteticamente il top... arrivata anche in anticipo, imballo perfetto all'intero c'è tutto organizzato con istruzioni precise per il montaggio, pensavo fosse difficile da soli ma in due o tre ore massimo si avvita tutto.. Grazie anche ad Amazon ho avuto in poco tempo dall'ordine la mia power rack a casa!

Excelente rack, muy robusto y estable...el unico pero es que Fitness Reality no pone a la venta los accesorios en Europa

Ich gebe dem Power Rack 5 von 5 Sternen. Nach zwei Jahren Gebrauchs kann ich sagen, dass diese Kraftstation meine Erwartungen übertroffen hat. Sie ist sehr robust, stabil und bietet ein ausgezeichnetes Trainingserlebnis. Der Stahlrahmen ist massiv und hält gut, was vor allem bei Klimmzügen oder Hantelübungen wichtig ist. Der Aufbau war dank der klaren Anleitung recht einfach, obwohl es hilfreich war, dass meine Frau mir zur Hand ging. Eine kleine Empfehlung: Es lohnt sich, Matten darunter zu legen, um den Boden zu schützen. Das Hantel-Ablagesystem funktioniert gut, aber wie einige andere Rezensenten bereits erwähnt haben, könnte ich mir vorstellen, dass zusätzliche J-Haken eine Verbesserung wären. Der beigelegte Halter ist ausreichend, aber nicht herausragend. Was mich besonders beeindruckt hat, ist die Multifunktionalität der Station. Man kann wirklich ein Ganzkörper-Training durchführen und spart sich damit den Weg ins Fitnessstudio. Die Latzug- und Ruderzug-Systeme funktionieren einwandfrei und man kann sogar eine Hantelbank einbauen. Ein kleiner Kritikpunkt ist das Geräusch, das die Halterungen beim Verschieben erzeugen, aber das ist ein kleiner Preis für ein ansonsten tolles Produkt. Insgesamt bin ich sehr zufrieden mit meinem Kauf und würde diese Kraftstation jedem empfehlen, der auf der Suche nach einem zuverlässigen und vielseitigen Trainingsgerät für zu Hause ist. Sie bietet ein hervorragendes Preis-Leistungs-Verhältnis und ist perfekt für Anfänger wie auch für erfahrene Sportler geeignet.