How to Use a Power Rack
Exercisers use a power rack for strength training, Olympic lifting, and powerlifting. Additional attachments, such as a dip station or pull-up bar, allow you to use it for bodyweight exercises. Some have pulley systems for other resistance exercises.
Correctly using a power rack can successfully enhance strength training. “It’s all about consistency,” Sevcik says. “Make sure you have some kind of progressive overload built into your programming.”
Power racks provide a safe lifting experience, which is of utmost importance, especially if you plan on training alone. The safety straps, pins, or arms—also called safeties—are a critical safety feature. “One of my biggest pet peeves is when I see people who don’t know how to set the safety arms the right way and have the pins set way too low,” Sevcik says. “The purpose of those safety arms is to give you a safe way to bail out of a lift. Otherwise, you’re just using a power rack as a big immobile squat stand.”
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