My current programming is
3x20-30 calf raises
2x5 barbell back squat
4x6-12 RDLs
2x6-12 sissy squats
2x6-12 quad-focused Bulgarian split squats

This is my programming as I only have a barbell, dumbbells, a bench, and a power cage. I’m starting to really fear the barbell back squats as I’m starting to feel more lower back strain as I increase the weight. I have relatively long femurs and my squats become good mornings as I approach failure. I’m unfortunately unable to switch to a gym at the moment. Any advice on how to improve this routine?

Is anyone able to speak on how well they like the bells of steel legacy leg curl/extension? Comparing it to the GMWD LE08 but I live within pickup distance for the bells warehouse so I can get a 20% discount which brings them pretty close in price.

How do i deafen this scratching sound, any help would do, cheers!

So I am about to assemble my force c20. I cleared a space for it today against the wall between the windows and you can see the rest of the layout. The plates will live on the c20 rack and the small metal one will be gone. Cold plunge behind rogue rack is going on back porch. I’m not in love with it the layout at all. What would y’all do? I have to keep enough space for the bikes and to store some things on the cleared side of the garage.

On a separate note. The force mats SUCK they aren’t even cut squarely….

Of all the attachments you've added to your rack or cable system, which one actually felt worth it and would you buy again?

My current pulleys are fine for everyday stuff, but for chest fly, rear delt and single arm press the angles always feel a bit limited. I'm on the fence about adding something and don't want to waste money on gear that just collects dust, so I'd love to hear what's been most worth it for you.

I like having the TV on in the garage while I'm lifting. Looking for good action movie suggestions. Already made it through all of the undisputed, rocky, creed, kickboxer, blade and Rambo movies. What else y'all got.

Welp it was a epic leg day until I noticed my seat wasn’t stay down for laying leg curls. Just emailed Mikolo since this is only 7 months olds hopefully they rectify this.

I've been researching rack options for my garage and thinking this rack would be a good fit. My 2 car garage only has 1 car in it. About 95% of the time, there is no other car in the garage. They only time there would be one is when we have guests and there isn't available parking in the community. Parking spots are scarce in this particular HOA.

I was researching both a stand alone rack and a folding rack, and I would really rather not go with a folding rack. During my research quest and using AI, it was pretty adamant about getting the HR-2 over a folding rack, telling me that if you need to park in the other spot, just drive over the feet of the HR-2 for those few times of year when you need to park there. But that really concerns me ... I think it's hallucinating. It tries to reference garage gym reviews, but when you look at those references, nothing about driving over the feet exist.

Anyway, would anyone dare do that? The rack will be along a wall perpendicular to the parked car. Given the length of about 4 feet for the rack, any other car that comes in would have to drive over the feet, unless I move it to the back yard.

Thanks in advance for helping me answer a silly question.

For anyone who bought the X3 with the original trolley arms and replaced them with the new Mutant Arms; what are you doing with the old trolleys? Are they compatible with other racks? Wondering if anyone would buy these on OfferUp.

Driven by a single external resistance source. Folds to unlock pec deck functionality. Will be at their HomeGymCon booth.

https://dialedmotion.com/products/multifly

I have an ethos foldable squat rack. Originally purchased during COVID with the intention of mainly doing CrossFit style workouts. Currently the knees don’t agree with this style of workout so I need to strengthen them through either body building lifts or might do TB.

My question is, does anyone else have this rack and found any hacks to add a functional trainer cable set to this? Or is it better to just get rid of it and look at Facebook marketplace for a power rack with a functional trainer built in? Also is a picture of my smaller space, thinking of addding a leg extension/curl machine. Im thinking that’ll basically give me everything I need.

Thoughts?

Also, my ceilings are a little low, so I have the pulldown bar on the rack installed upside down

My gym is inside a multi storey building, on the bottom floor, and there have been complaints by other occupants in the building about the noise and vibration from our deadlifts. The bar also bounces a lot on this deadlift platform, so it definitely needs to be replaced and improved to fix both of these issues. The current set up is Strength shop granuflex mats (they are supposed to be good for vibration absorption, 20mm thickness I believe) on the gym floor (horse stall mat), one layer of 3/4 inch thick plywood on top of the granuflex mats, and a weird thin rubber layer on top of the plywood

If we were to place a new good deadlift platform (2 layers of 3/4 plywood plus a 3rd layer consisting of 3/4 inch plywood in centre and 3/4 inch horse stall mats on the sides) ON TOP of the granuflex mats, would that fix both problems (the vibration/noise being felt across the building, and the bar bounce during deadlifts)?

I am concerned the granuflex mats may lead to the platform having too much give/ bounce, but without the mats I fear the vibration issues won’t be fixed. I’m getting us a ‘good’ deadlift platform (as I described earlier) regardless, I just want to know whether the granuflex mats will help or not in such a situation?

The attached photo shows the current setup, the layer in between the plywood and gym floor is the granuflex mat for reference, it feels kinda squidgy tbh but I guess that’s how it works for vibration absorption.

We train on calibrated powerlifting competition plates. More controlled eccentrics isn’t really an option.

Has anyone got any experience with a similar setup? Any help is much appreciated, thank you.