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Proper use of squat Rack

Is it ok to overhead press in the squat rack?

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Totally agree. At my trainer's studio, we do deadlifts in the cage/rack/metalthing because there isn't room to do it elsewhere.

Plus I hang my towel over the handles on the end so is it a towel rack too ... ;)

PowerBuilder said:
Let us be open minded and honest with ourselves. How you define the picture below represents what it means to you.

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Is it a squat cage or squat rack? power and strength cage? A compound movement zone? Or a clothes horse? It is possable that you define it as at least one of these examples. Once youce got that definiton, your perception is developed.
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When I trained at FF, I had to wait to use the squat rack because some kid was doing pendlay rows in it. They're a great exercise, but why the heck would you do them in a rack?
 
The truth brahs

Cages are for phaggots imo. they use a cage cos they have to cage there homosexual desires, fucking poofs.


Real men, dumbell curl, infront of a mirror, in a singlet wearing short shorts, or skinny jeans, showing there legs off. Probably getting checked out by the poofs in the cage.
 
Oh I long for the day when I can walk into a gym and only see a minimum 6-8 squat racks, lifting platforms and only flat and incline benches and a giant bucket of chalk in the middle. And NO air con. Just fans. No machines.


Of course you'd see 6-8 guys going curls and rows and SLD's in the racks. (sigh)



I don't WANT to use a machine that works the outside of my rhomboid's - wherever the hell that is. Although it makes a good towel holder though.


Maybe I just expect too much.
 
Jonno_aus said:
Oh I long for the day when I can walk into a gym and only see a minimum 6-8 squat racks, lifting platforms and only flat and incline benches and a giant bucket of chalk in the middle. And NO air con. Just fans. No machines.


Of course you'd see 6-8 guys going curls and rows and SLD's in the racks. (sigh)



I don't WANT to use a machine that works the outside of my rhomboid's - wherever the hell that is. Although it makes a good towel holder though.


Maybe I just expect too much.
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Good Description of my gym :D
Correction we will have 10 racks and 6 benches :)

cheers
trent
 
Most gyms I go to have no where else to do so except for the bench presses which are usually being used more frequently than the rack
 
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