Titan Power Rack
Titan has some nice, simply Racks.
Of the issue with the one below is that it needs to be bolted to the floor.
"Titan recommends bolting down your rack for added stability."
Bolting It To The Floor
As per Steve, Do you really want to bolt one to the floor?
There are some other Titan Power Racks on the page link below it that don't have to be bolted.
Free Stamding Titan Power Rack
This one does not need to be bolted to the floor.
Squat Stands vs Power Rack
A Power Rack provide more beneifts.
It allows you to perform Partial Range Movement to work your Sticking Point in a Movement.
Scrape the Rack
Scrape The Rack For Growth 5 Muscle-Building Exercises
Scrape The Rack For Growth
Chris Thibaudeau, one of the best Strength Coaches, goes into the benefits of Scrape The Rack Training.
Scrape The Rack elicits a Training Effect that is essentially like a Smith Machine.
Doing so, allows you to place a greater workload on the Primary Muscles in a Movement. It takes the Stabilizer Muscles out of the equation.
The greater the Statility of a Movement, the more the Primary Muscles are activated in a Movement
That is one of the benefits of a Leg Press and why Bodybuilders gravitate to it. They are able maximize Leg Mass; overload the Quads and Glutes.
Stabilizer Muscles
The Stabilizer Muscles are overloaded with Unstable Movements that require more balance.
Exercises such as: Dumbbells, Step Up Squats, Pistol Squats, Single Leg Deadlift with something like a Kettlebell, etc.
Heavy Scrape The Rack Good Mornings
One of my favorite Deadlift Auxiliary Exercises are Heavy Scrape The Rack Good Mornings.
Scraping The Rack in the Good Morning allows me to overload the Primary Posterior Chain Muscles to a much greater degree.
I follow it with a Traditional Free Weight Moderately Heavy Power Good Morning with Bands attached to the Bar.
Attaching Band or Chain to a Bar Movement elicits greater Stabilize Muscle Involvement; due to the instability produced by the Bands and/or Chains in the movement.
Reverse Banded Power Rack Exercises
One of the issue with all Exercise Movements is that only 30% the Muscles are Overloaded.
The remaining 70% of the Exericise Movement is UnderLoaded. Strength and Size are optimized when the muscle are OverLoaded.
A Power Rack allow you to anchor Bands to the top of the Rack and then attach them to the bar. As you descend down the load is decrease, where you are in the weaker position.
As you ascent, the Bands increase the loading in the top part of the Movement,where you are stronger.
This method ensures that you OverLoad the Muscles In The Movement through a much greater Range of The Movement
As per the research...
Variable Resistance Exercise: A Biomechanical Approach To Muscular Training
Dr Gideon B Ariel, PhD
The Variable Resistance Concept
In conventional resistance exercise, the loads are moved through a range of motion. The load remains constant throughout the motion but
the muscular force is not constant because of the modifying effects of the lever system throughout the range of motion. (Figure 4)
...the bench press and squat exercises revealed that the muscular force is at its greatest potential in only 30 percent of the stroke. This fact demonstrates the vast waste found in traditional weight regimes since 70 percent of the exercise is relatively useless.
To facilitate maximum muscular involvement, it is necessary to vary the resistance.
Isometrics And Functional Isometrics
Isometrics and Functional Isomterics can be performed in a Power Rack with a slight modification.
With Isometric and Functional Isometric Actions, you are able to produce full out Maximal Force for a few seconds, which produces increased Maximum Strength.
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