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Pre Order: Commercial Power Rack with Lat Pulley $549 (Was $799) + Shipping @ Catch Fitness

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Commercial Power Rack with Lat Pull Down / Pulley: https://www.catch-fitness.com/products/arriving-early-july-c…

By popular demand, we've sourced 50 pieces of a commercial-grade power rack with a dual pulley system for all of your accessory movements including lat pull downs, shrugs, curls, and more.

This rack is available in both red and yellow. Please indicate your colour preference, and we will do our best to accommodate.

The technical stuff

400KG+ rated cage. Throwdown on it, hang a bag from it, this cage was designed for some serious abuse
Each of the components of our commercial rack are laser cut. Fully robotic welding means beautiful welds, no burrs in the holes, and the flushest of finishes.
Wear-resistant nylon inserts in the J-Hooks to protect your barbell
Rubber non-slip feet
Sturdy 100KG design
Dimensions: H 220cm x W 120cm x D 120cm
Tube size: 60mm x 60mm x 3mm
Dual pulley system included, with plate holder which fits olympic and standard sized plates (the plate holder has an adjustable sleeve)
What's included

Commercial grade power rack
Pulley system
Lat pull down attachment
Multi-grip pull up bar
Flat bar (shrugs / curls) attachment
J-Hooks
Safety Bars
Dip Bars
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Product warranty: Each of the items we retail comes with a minimum 12 month warranty. Some of our items, like our curved runner treadmill, come with as high as ten years warranty on the frame. We put our money where our mouths are when it comes to quality equipment.
Drop the weights: Did you know, our bumper plates were dropped 30,000 times in testing without cracking?
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  • +1

    Is this compatible with a lockdown bod? Asking for a friend.

  • How much do weights costs

    • -2

      More than the rack is actually worth. See ozzzie's comment below.

  • +6

    Does it come with the motivation to exercise at home during lockdown?

    • +1

      Moccona makes a compatible product for this which can be had very cheaply.

  • Are there any squat racks that are actually in stock?

    • +1

      I'm also looking for a squat rack. If anyone knows where I can find one at a decent price, please share. OP, can you help?

      • Couldn't this also be used as a squat rack?

        • Yeah, just get those j hooks

      • I'm selling mine… sydney

    • +5

      This will perform all the functions of a squat rack with the added advantage of literally saving your life if you slip or injure yourself while under the bar. Can also be used for all the other good things like chin ups, standing press and (possibly) dips.

      Also makes for a weight rack, good clothes drying rack, adjustable height work from home desk and/or COVID hobby table and is pretty trivial to mount a small television into the back of it to make an entertainment unit. I'm not even kidding, I have a similar unit and it does all those things in addition to it's intended purpose and takes about ten seconds to switch between functions.

      That said, I won't vouch for the safety rating of this or any other unit except for the singular one that is currently in my garage with the modifications that I decided were necessary.

      • What were the mods you had to do?

        I'm thinking of upgrading my current setup. https://imgur.com/a/1xkLqZW

        • +1

          I bolted a cross brace out of structural pine onto the back of the rack to strengthen it against lateral movement.
          With your setup, mate, never, ever bench press alone - you need some kind of safety bars. Otherwise people die.

  • Hmmm any photos of it actually set up?

  • +3

    Says arriving November

  • Hey OP, would this be suitable for outdoor use? Or needs to be indoors/under cover?

    • +3

      Not OP. It's made from steel. If you maintain it with paint/ oil it will last outside. If you don't it will rust over time but 3mm steel would take a while to rust through. Regardless of powder coat etc a rack will get dinged and need paint/ oil to maintain it outside. If you oiled it before setting it up (especially coating the inside) and then sprayed dings every few months it will be fine. If you don't mind replacing it in 3-5 years then you wouldn't even need to maintain it.

      • Makes sense, Thankyou!

      • What oil would you recommend?
        I currently have my powerrack (not ops) outdoors under cover but may get sprayed when rains are on high winds.

        • I'd use 3 in one but anything that forms a layer that stops moisture and air.

  • +1

    $113.83 shipping cost to Melbourne.

  • Hi @Catch Fitness I'm just checking out your other products

    If I order the change plates, for example the 2.5kg for $30 will I get 1 x 2.5kg or 2 x 2.5kg?

    Same question with the hex dumbells. Are they $105 for 1 x 15kg or is that the price for two?

    Thanks

  • Hi Catch Fitness.

    Have you thought about doing an ozbargain specific discount code?

    I'd love a FID bench

  • +10

    Hmm, a few things. Extremely disappointed there are so few decent images of the rack. Makes me think you're trying to hide something.

    The most heavily used component of any rack, the part that takes all the brunt, are the safety bars. They'll take the weight when your lift fails. They're the things that you'll rely on when you train to failure, that you expect to protect your house from damage, and possibly even save your life. But instead of using strong, solid, square pipe steel crossmembers, this rack has flimsy little steel bars. Sure, they'll take a fair bit of weight at either end, but you drop a bar with 70 or 80kg of weight on either end in the middle of those safety bars, and they will buckle. And because this will be tempered steel, instead of bending, it's more likely to snap. Particularly if you've already dropped significant weight on them before. So those safety bars may actually fail to save your life.

    Oh and because these are round steel bars, they'll chip away at the chrome plating on your barbell every time you put it down on them. No rubber padded surface here!

    Commercial rack? Don't make me laugh. If you saw one of these in a commercial gym, you'd ask for your money back. As should anyone inexperienced enough to buy junk like this in the first place. The scary thing is, people will actually buy something like this, put it into their home, and entrust their life to it. Probably the only reason more people aren't getting injured is because so many people who buy new gym equipment give up at some point before they're lifting enough weight to make it dangerous…

    You should re-brand this as a 'training rack' for children, with big warning stickers saying it's not for use by anyone over the age of 12.

    • Thanks for the comment - I'll stick to my current setup then.

    • +1 was going to order and this comment made me think twice!

    • -3

      Yeah, see Ozzzie's comment below $85 AUD.

    • -3

      Each of our team are fitness enthusiasts, trainers, coaches, or former gym owners.

      Edit to OP - are you one of these? Can you vouch for the safety of this rack? That you wouldn't be in a spot of trouble for putting one of these in a gym where a member of yours tries to lift 130kg but drops it?

    • Tldr. It's fine for the avg person who'll give up after a few weeks/mths amyway.

    • +4

      IMHO
      You should never use safety bars or "catch" bars to drop your barbell onto for the aforementioned reasons, these are only good for resting barbells on. The best catch system would be to use safety straps/slings such as these from Iron Edge

      If you haven't seen these used before, watch the following short clip (from 2:40 mark) The Iron Edge Sling for a clear demonstration. Even my gym doesn't have any slings so when I bring mine I always get asked by someone to borrow them.

      Extreme Safety Strap Test 800lbs

      Do you even lift bro?

      Let's Skip Leg Days plus Cheat Day plus *We Should Be …

      • +1

        This.

        But sadly as you say, 99.9% of people A) don't know what safety straps are, and B) won't use them because of the hassle, and the fact that they overestimate their own strength… Personally, I have a BodySolid Pro Power Rack (the older version of the GPR378 - it was their 'commercial model' back when I bought it 15 years ago) and I've never dropped heavy weight on it uncontrolled, despite regularly training to failure on my max weight (2 rep target) set. Because I only use incremental weight and focus on form, I never exceed my max weight to a dangerous level, and always adjust the bars for every single exercise to be within an inch of my minimum height. Those who are dropping a lot of weight on safety bars are probably doing something wrong with their routine, like lifting far more weight than they should be (extremely common) or training with incorrect form, which in itself is going to lead to injury at some point anyway. As 2getted wrote, the safety bars should only be used for resting weight on, not as a regular safety feature. If there's an unforeseen circumstance or accident, those bars are there to make sure you don't kill yourself, but remember metal fatigues, so as soon as you start dropping weight on them you're weakening them, so if you do that regularly you'll eventually break something at a point you're relying on it to keep you safe.

        So buy a good, strong rack, use safety straps, always use perfect form (if you can't maintain perfect form throughout every full 1-3 count lift, your weight is too high), and never, ever lift weight that's heavier than something you can do at least two perfect reps with.

        • +2

          Again, spot on with what you said.
          Also, too many people in the gym rely on spotters and we could open up a WHOLE web page on spotters (technique, concentration, …) when spotters, even when done properly for squats (ie two people, one at each end of the bar) WILL NOT help you if you fail. In fact you're more than likely to injure the spotters than yourself.
          But if you do need to test your 1RM use spotters to spot your form and only to help with that sticking point, and always use straps (even large resistance bands as a last resort).

          Now to give something back after this rant. This 12 minute routine has helped me with my lower back pain (spondylolisthesis that surgeons have recommend arthrodesis for) to the point where I don't have any pain now and rarely need to use a belt. Can't recommend it enough:

          Foundation Training original 12 minutes

          • +1

            @2getted: OG never used a spotter crew right here ;-) This machine is entirely 100% self made.

            Thanks for posting the vid, looks excellent. I'm going to do this tomorrow, impressed reading through the comments, looking forward to seeing how much pain I can be in after 12 mins :-D This sort of thing is exactly why I've never touched machines - free weights build total body strength through assistive muscle activation that aren't engaged using machines. Willing to bet this routine will find muscles I barely activate because other, stronger muscles overcompensate for them (have found that with quite a few muscle groups over the years, physios surprised at lack of power from certain groups because others can do work they're not actually meant to be, because of half a degree difference in posture or position or something I've done for years).

            Anyway, thanks again, much appreciated!

            • @TrevorX: Cheers, make sure you do the Foundation Training exercise every day for at least twelve weeks. You'll find that you probably won't notice any pain reduction as it happens so gradually but when you reflect back after doing an exercise that use to give you problems previously, suddenly you'll realise that you're pain free. This was my experience and that's after years of regular physio, Pilates & yoga.

              I can't stress enough on how accurate you are re free weights vs machines. Most people don't appreciate/understand the benefits of an exercise that works on more than one muscle group, gives you core stability training, and mobility strength training at the same time. I'm the only one I've seen at a few gyms I go to that does power cleans, overhead squats, and uses a barbell with proper technique for hack squats. I've had to explain the biomechanics of the hack squat to so many trainers in that it works best if your standing straight up with the barbell held behind you and most importantly that your feet are on a 45° platform not flat on the floor that everyone seems to do. I haven't seen a hack squat machine that does this properly anywhere.

              Hack Squat Heel Evevated

      • -1

        True. Not for dropping. But how many amateurs will end up buying this because of the advertising as "commercial grade" and end up doing just that?

  • +2

    Looks like it's this one. Costs 85 from the factory. A huge markup by catch fitness even when factoring in shipping.

    https://m.alibaba.com/product/1600090592862/Commercial-Multi…

    • -2

      Agreed, no deal.

    • Sure…if you’re willing to order 50 of them minimum. Very moronic to compare bulk pricing dealing with alibaba sellers directly, to individual pricing dealing with local reseller.

      I agree it’s very questionable to claim ‘commercial grade’ though…

    • +1

      hate it when people post mobile links >:(

    • +2

      You mean this one (not a mobile link) with more photos and at $257.11 - $264.06 without delivery:
      Commercial Multi Steel Fitness Power rack Gym Equipment

      • Yeah looks like you found it. Exact same photos yellow & black colour, and air vent in ceiling. And ~$250 for one so what kind of pricing would you get for ordering 50?

        • You the type of dude that buys your own patties, lettuce, tomatoes, buns and chips instead of going to maccas? You found their supplier, so what.

  • +1

    400kg rated cage? Where does that figure come from?

    How much is the J Hooks and safety bars rated to?
    I doubt they are rated to 400kg.

    Mine are thicker and are rated to 300-400kg

  • Where is store rep?

  • +10

    Hi everyone.

    This is the first time we've posted on ozbargain, and we're definitely surprised by the volume of traffic it's generated!

    Responding to a few comments;

    1. Yes, dumbbells, and plates are priced per pair. So 15KG dumbbells would be $105 for 2 x 15KG dumbbells. 10KG + 15KG dumbbells are in stock.

    2. On the value comment, we try to price best in market. I don't mind being transparent here. These racks do not cost $85. This is 60x60x3mm steel weighing 102KG. The cost of scrap alone is significantly more than the $85. We buy these racks for $170 USD, which at our level of exchange rates, works out to be about $250. So we make a 50% gross margin on a rack we sell for $500 ex. GST. When we pay freight, the 17 staff in our team, shipping, marketing, warehouse costs, insurances etc. we net out at around 20%, and this is before i take a salary. This 20% holds true for all of our products. We try to price very fairly, and best in market. If someone else would like to put in 80-90 hour weeks, draw down on their mortgage, put down several million in purchase orders, for a 20% retail profit margin - then by all means, come join me. The link you posted is of an entity who's clearly stolen copy from our website, with no trading historu

    3. The cage is 60x60x3mm steel. This is 3mm before the powder coat (i.e. this is not 2.5mm steel). We also have cages that are 75x75x3mm steel that are 500kg+ rated.

    4. Trevor, are you in Sydney? You're welcome to the showroom and check out the rack, and our other racks, first hand. I think you'll find we're not hiding anything. You'll see across our website, we try to follow a consistent naming convention; Standard (50x50), Commercial (60x60), or Elite (75x75). The GPR series is 11 gauge steel, like this rack. GPR racks are sturdy, but I'm not a fan of the westside spacing, the 17mm holes, or the absence of holes on all four sides of the tubing. It just removes versatility with respect to extensions. I much prefer the Sorinex Apex rack - it's stunning, and we're hoping to create something just as study and versatile, at a much sharper price.

    5. +1 the comment on slings. We are launching a range of slings, jammer arms, leg presses, monolifts, uhmw j cups and more attachments for both our 60x60 and 75x75 rack range. There's also knee pad / bench attachments for this rack.

    6. The shipping cost of $113 to Melbourne, we feel is quite reasonable for a 102KG rack. It needs to go on a pallet, be shrink wrapped, and then required a truck with a tail lift to deliver it at premises. If you're a commercial venue with a forklift, we can make it cheaper. Alternatively, we also offer customers the opportunity to organise their own shipping - we will pallet and shrink wrap their order(s) at no extra cost.

    7. This is what I use for outdoor use: https://www.bunnings.com.au/3-in-one-multipurpose-oil-lubric…

    8. Pardon the muggle question - but how do people generally post photos? We have this rack set up in our showroom, so I can share some pics. Is it a link to a google doc?

    9. Kindra / first in line, if you want something sooner, I'd recommend the following rack. We also have squat stands available now: https://www.catch-fitness.com/collections/racks/products/arr…

    10. On the motivation question, find a training buddy, or invite your neighbours! We had a group of Samoan guys from Rooty Hill come in last week. They started a neighbourhood gym for their cul-de-sac. It was humbling to hear their story… Free for the kids on the street, free for the recovering stroke patient across the road. We've had a couple of these, and I think the concept of a 'neighbourhood gym' is going to take off!

    Feel free to give the office a ring tomorrow if any other Qs, or you wanted to swing by and were in Sydney 🙏

    • Hi OP - just ordered the power rack that you linked to, but had a question. What's the height of the rack not including the pull up bar? Already have a pull up bar and planning on setting up the rack but may have limited ceiling height. Hoping I don't have to cancel the order, as this would save me space. Cheers

    • Thanks for the reply.

      Do you have any stock currently in your warehouse? And if I was to pick the power rack up, do you think this will fit into a SUV or would I need a truck?

    • Great response. Thanks!

  • +1

    Don’t forget to use code: RECOVER for a 5% discount

    • Thanks. Did you order?

      • Yeah I ended up ordering this one. https://www.catch-fitness.com/collections/racks/products/arr…

        Better kg rating and heavier not sure how this one is 60mmx60mmx2mm and the one advertise is 3mm but have a lower kg rating. I don’t think I’ll be squatting huge amounts anyway, probably max 120kg so should be fine for a home gym. Later if I decide to go heavier I’ll definitely get the slings.

        Maybe OP can help answer?

        • Nice, but ensure that the cage is stable on the ground for you.

          Just in case your not aware of what those pins on the sides at the base and the top can be used for, they are for resistance band loading. A great way to load up the resistance to the eccentric and concentric phases of an exercise. Here's a quick video of some examples of what you can do with them and more examples here.

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