Awesome dude. Very impressed with your band attachment setup on your platform. I’'m planning on building an 8x8 platform to rest my cage (much like your “spare” one) on so I can do reverse band deads without jacking up the concrete floors and have room to pull out in front of the cage. I’ve seen various ways of attaching bands to the platform, but this one is what I’ll be using. Thanks for the idea.
Is the current platform you’ve got just 4’x8’? Any issue with the ends of it pulling up a bit at the top of a pull?
Gym tours rule.This has inspired me. After we get our next wave of equipment ( sled, k-bells, swiss bar, fat bar, short bands, deadlift bar, squat bar, buffalo bar, rev. hyper) I`m going to take you guys on a tour of my little sugar shack, too.
[quote]inkaddict wrote:
Awesome dude. Very impressed with your band attachment setup on your platform. I’'m planning on building an 8x8 platform to rest my cage (much like your “spare” one) on so I can do reverse band deads without jacking up the concrete floors and have room to pull out in front of the cage. I’ve seen various ways of attaching bands to the platform, but this one is what I’ll be using. Thanks for the idea.
Is the current platform you’ve got just 4’x8’? Any issue with the ends of it pulling up a bit at the top of a pull?[/quote]
4x8 is correct (might even be a little longer than 8). No issues whatsoever with it pulling up at the top…
[quote]GhostOD wrote:
Gym tours rule.This has inspired me. After we get our next wave of equipment ( sled, k-bells, swiss bar, fat bar, short bands, deadlift bar, squat bar, buffalo bar, rev. hyper) I`m going to take you guys on a tour of my little sugar shack, too.[/quote]
Can’t wait! Sounds like you’re going to have some things we don’t have.
[quote]inkaddict wrote:
Awesome dude. Very impressed with your band attachment setup on your platform. I’'m planning on building an 8x8 platform to rest my cage (much like your “spare” one) on so I can do reverse band deads without jacking up the concrete floors and have room to pull out in front of the cage. I’ve seen various ways of attaching bands to the platform, but this one is what I’ll be using. Thanks for the idea.
Is the current platform you’ve got just 4’x8’? Any issue with the ends of it pulling up a bit at the top of a pull?[/quote]
4x8 is correct (might even be a little longer than 8). No issues whatsoever with it pulling up at the top…[/quote]
Great, thanks man. You just saved me the $ I was going to have to spend on framing the thing with 2x4’s to add structural support. Double stacked/staggered 3/4" plywood sheets here I come!
You guys have any bumper plates? Maybe just a couple of the 45’s to help protect the rubber matting a bit, that’s all I can think of adding at this point.
Hey guys. Im Dan, Gregs training partner. I appreciate all the kind words. Im sure I speak for Greg, too, when I say this is my pride and joy. I think this is the best training decision we could have possibly made. In the couple weeks we’ve been down here, I already feel more comfortable than in the gyms we were training at previously. If you’re ever considering setting up a home powerlifting gym I highly recommend it. My onlyy advice is find a good, reliable training partner will similar goals. We will definately consider some of the ideas you guys had with adding certain pieces of equipment.
[quote]inkaddict wrote:
Awesome dude. Very impressed with your band attachment setup on your platform. I’'m planning on building an 8x8 platform to rest my cage (much like your “spare” one) on so I can do reverse band deads without jacking up the concrete floors and have room to pull out in front of the cage. I’ve seen various ways of attaching bands to the platform, but this one is what I’ll be using. Thanks for the idea.
Is the current platform you’ve got just 4’x8’? Any issue with the ends of it pulling up a bit at the top of a pull?[/quote]
Im glad you can use one of our ideas. It feels good to contribute to someone elses setup. As far as the platform goes, yes it is 4’x8’, and is very sturdy. We dont seem to have any issue with rigidity so far. Yours would definately be very solid with staggered sheets of plywood. As im sure you were planning on, I would put the band attachments ~4’ apart. It seems to be a nice distance for using long bands.
[quote]inkaddict wrote:
Awesome dude. Very impressed with your band attachment setup on your platform. I’'m planning on building an 8x8 platform to rest my cage (much like your “spare” one) on so I can do reverse band deads without jacking up the concrete floors and have room to pull out in front of the cage. I’ve seen various ways of attaching bands to the platform, but this one is what I’ll be using. Thanks for the idea.
Is the current platform you’ve got just 4’x8’? Any issue with the ends of it pulling up a bit at the top of a pull?[/quote]
4x8 is correct (might even be a little longer than 8). No issues whatsoever with it pulling up at the top…[/quote]
Great, thanks man. You just saved me the $ I was going to have to spend on framing the thing with 2x4’s to add structural support. Double stacked/staggered 3/4" plywood sheets here I come!
You guys have any bumper plates? Maybe just a couple of the 45’s to help protect the rubber matting a bit, that’s all I can think of adding at this point. [/quote]
It’s actually some really heavy duty rubber (horse stall mats). We’re not worried about messing it up at all. They have grooves in them too to prevent the bar from rolling around. Plus, as power lifters, we would rather not have that bounce at the bottom during multiple rep sets.
As far as rings go, if you ever decide you want them, get blast straps from EFS. I have a set of them too. They are extremely adjustable. You can do pushups and then flip them over the top of your rack and do pull ups and all sorts of stuff in between.
[quote]fat wilhelm wrote:
Looks very nice! I’m not very far from you in Plymouth and have something similar. Here is my garage setup:
This is a bad ass set up man! It looks like yours is built more for strong man stuff, but I love it nonetheless. We’re not really into strong man, but I certainly respect anyone who does it.
I will say this - Dan and I have used a shitty GHR (I’m not calling yours shitty), and there is quite a difference between that shitty GHR and the one we bought. You can’t put a price on a perfectly built GHR. I’m not sure how yours is (if it has the right leverages), but spending the money on a nice one is well worth it. With you being more strong man-oriented, I’m not sure how important a GHR is to you though.
Your Power Rack looks very, very similar to ours. Where did you say you got it?
How difficult was the Reverse Hyper to build? It looks awesome. I may have to talk Dan into building one.
You may want to invest in rubber flooring so your cement floor doesn’t start going to shit when weights drop on it. Horse trailer flooring works really well and is about half as expensive as the weight room flooring.
[quote]SKWATKING wrote:
You may want to invest in rubber flooring so your cement floor doesn’t start going to shit when weights drop on it. Horse trailer flooring works really well and is about half as expensive as the weight room flooring. [/quote]
That’s a good idea, and we probably will eventually. As it is right now, we don’t really drop too much weight on it. The only time we drop weights is when we deadlift, and we have a platform for that.
Yes, we curl in our squat rack because it’s our fucking squat rack, and we’ll do whatever we fucking want with it - lol.
[quote]hassstud5 wrote:
I am one of the few who has had the pleasure in training at FORTIS…all I got to say is bad ass. [/quote]
We may start requiring a minimum deadlift of 500 for entry into FORTIS. That would mean you have some work to do, son.
This is a bad ass set up man! It looks like yours is built more for strong man stuff, but I love it nonetheless. We’re not really into strong man, but I certainly respect anyone who does it.
I will say this - Dan and I have used a shitty GHR (I’m not calling yours shitty), and there is quite a difference between that shitty GHR and the one we bought. You can’t put a price on a perfectly built GHR. I’m not sure how yours is (if it has the right leverages), but spending the money on a nice one is well worth it. With you being more strong man-oriented, I’m not sure how important a GHR is to you though.
Your Power Rack looks very, very similar to ours. Where did you say you got it?
How difficult was the Reverse Hyper to build? It looks awesome. I may have to talk Dan into building one.[/quote]
It’s OK… it is a shitty GHR. I found it on Craigslist for ~$60, though, so i couldn’t pass it up at the time. I’d like to upgrade at some point.
The rack was made by Scott Prosek of Strength and Power Equipment. He does incredible work for incredibly good prices.
The reverse hyper was not the easiest thing to build, especially since I didn’t have a real-life model to base it on and went entirely off of photographs, but in the end, it works as good or better than any other that I’ve tried.
