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Sticky: The Official Power Rack Thread - August 2010 version This is a collaborative effort from the equipment forum members. The 2008 edition has a lot of broken links and rather than keep that one going we decided to start a new one. First let’s have a few definitions to clear up some confusion. Squat Stands: These are probably the most useless... Jimbo.‎, 08-07-2010 12:03 PM 108 Pages • 1 2 3 4 5 ... 108	Last Post By irongrandpa View Profile View Forum Posts 12-03-2019, 03:29 PM	3,216	1,393,536
Sticky: Official Newbie Bowflex Search So you are new and dumb enough to believe the Bowflex commercials, before you get flamed and negged into the red, use the damn search function to get the answer to "dude, should I be ignorant and think about getting a bowflex" OK, now if you post another thread, you get what is coming to... ctgblue‎, 01-02-2009 07:31 PM 13 Pages • 1 2 3 4 5 ... 13	Last Post By Jeremy19969 View Profile View Forum Posts 10-04-2019, 10:28 AM	387	421,437
Sticky: Belts - A Comprehensive Guide The topics “Do I need a belt” and “What belt should I buy” are such a frequent occurrence that it has warranted a detailed posting on the topic. This is meant to be a dissertation on the topic, and shall be inclusive of all the information that is required to answer this question. If you don’t... cmarti063‎, 05-16-2014 07:22 PM 30 Pages • 1 2 3 4 5 ... 30	Last Post By KoolDJVader View Profile View Forum Posts 12-02-2019, 01:10 PM	895	415,531
Sticky: The Cheapo Setup Ok so let's go through the cheapest options for new equipment that you'd be willing to use for training. While we all dream of buying that custom built rig, or finding a solid piece of used commercial or vintage equipment to outfit your gym, many times we just want to buy something that's usable... Domicron‎, 01-02-2016 04:22 PM 29 Pages • 1 2 3 4 5 ... 29	Last Post By Joshy16 View Profile View Forum Posts 11-25-2019, 09:21 AM	840	267,636
Sticky: The Official Craigslist Thread (Round 4) Figure I would get this one going again. Round 1: http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=109374491 Round 2: http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=124520311 Round 3: https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=161832313 Let's find those deals! indianbuckeye‎, 08-19-2017 08:36 AM 54 Pages • 1 2 3 4 5 ... 54	Last Post By perly1998 View Profile View Forum Posts 12-02-2019, 08:35 AM	1,608	222,109
Sticky: PICS and DISCUSSION of YOUR HOME GYM V2.0 Have a home gym? New to this forum? Post your gym pics in this thread. ironwill2008‎, 12-12-2017 09:33 AM 24 Pages • 1 2 3 4 5 ... 24	Last Post By mojoflash2019 View Profile View Forum Posts Yesterday, 09:20 AM	693	190,015
Sticky: Barbells - Everything you ever wanted to know I don't think a thread like this exists for the barbell, so I wanted to start one. The Olympic barbell is one of the most important purchases one can make for their home gym. A barbell is the interface to the weight and although they may all look similar to an untrained eye, there are actually a... bobcat255‎, 10-24-2016 08:30 PM 6 Pages • 1 2 3 4 5 ... 6	Last Post By radrd View Profile View Forum Posts 11-12-2019, 11:57 AM	160	160,735
Sticky: THIS is NOT a CLASSIFIED SECTION!!! THIS IS NOT THE PLACE TO POST STUFF YOU HAVE FOR SALE!!! I'm seeing a lot of people and (some not noobs!) posting items they have for sale in this section. That is not what it is for and is against board rules. There is a craigslist sticky for posting great deals you see but if it isn't a... Wildtim‎, 10-07-2012 07:53 AM	Last Post By Wildtim View Profile View Forum Posts Visit Homepage 10-07-2012, 07:53 AM	0	87,562
Sticky: General Forum Rules Welcome to the Bodybuilding.com Forums It is our hope that the members of the forums will help each other in providing motivation and information to those looking to reach their fitness goals. To protect our members and the forums, the following rules are effective in all sections. Please take... ForumSentinel‎, 05-19-2014 09:12 AM	Last Post By ForumSentinel View Profile View Forum Posts 05-19-2014, 09:12 AM	0	73,448
Sticky: SPAM THREADS and POSTS Just as in every year past, this time of year sees an uptick of spammers, scammers, crooks, charlatans, ganefs, and knuckleheads bent on using this forum to shill their junk. One more time; don't quote or reply to such threads/posts; doing so only creates more work to clear them out. Simply... ironwill2008‎, 11-27-2017 03:56 PM	Last Post By ironwill2008 View Profile View Forum Posts 11-27-2017, 03:56 PM	0	26,526

Vintage Iron Thread Hi All, I read a post a few weeks ago in which SnowOne and DonForeman suggested a vintage iron thread to discuss/identify old plates. I wasn't part of that discussion, but I see that no one has created the thread, and I have a couple of plates that I could use some help identifying, so I figured... rlundregan‎, 08-14-2012 04:19 PM 163 Pages • 1 2 3 4 5 ... 163	Last Post By vhd16 View Profile View Forum Posts 11-28-2019, 06:23 PM	4,874	619,770
York Barbell Club - Part II The first thread for the York Barbell Club has run to the maximum number of posts. I bring you Part II, a place for the York Gang to hang out and share their interest in vintage American iron from York, PA. For those of you who can't see the linked text above, here's the old thread:... AttyGuy‎, 05-11-2015 08:30 PM 202 Pages • 1 2 3 4 5 ... 202	Last Post By smokinHawk View Profile View Forum Posts Visit Homepage Yesterday, 11:09 PM	6,050	610,650
Due to popular demand... The Ivanko Barbell crew! With the onset of the York boys club, I figured us Ivanko boys needed to start our own crew. All my bars and most of my plates are now Ivanko so I thought I might as well set up the crew. Here is my gear.. Starting with my bars OBX-20KG, OBZ-30 and OB-60B My OMEZS plates.. fishingeek‎, 04-06-2012 07:40 AM 180 Pages • 1 2 3 4 5 ... 180	Last Post By DarthCholo View Profile View Forum Posts 11-19-2019, 08:15 PM	5,385	596,936
Rogue Barbell Club I figured it's probably long overdue for a Rogue Barbell Club. I'm sure there's some vintage (circa 2006) collectors out there too. I'll start off: Rack: Rogue R3 w/ Matador and Landmine attachments Bars: Rogue Ohio Power Bar, Rogue Matt Chan Bar, Rogue SB-1 Safety Squat Bar Bench:... Bench905‎, 04-01-2015 06:38 AM 166 Pages • 1 2 3 4 5 ... 166	Last Post By Duplicitous View Profile View Forum Posts Today, 01:10 AM	4,977	589,848
My recent builds I'm getting too many emails asking "what can I do", so I tought I'd put these in the same thread. These are just final (or close to final) pictures. No descriptions. Questions welcome. Racks and benches Mech6‎, 12-11-2013 09:17 PM 119 Pages • 1 2 3 4 5 ... 119	Last Post By irongrandpa View Profile View Forum Posts 11-28-2019, 06:02 PM	3,561	479,909
Equipment Crew- Part IV I was here for the start.... now we're four threads in. Nice job fellas. Proceed equipment sluts. #3- 9/21/2012 http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=148349563 (Equipment Crew- Part III) #2- 2/25/2010 ... Keetman‎, 09-05-2015 03:27 PM 217 Pages • 1 2 3 4 5 ... 217	Last Post By rpark View Profile View Forum Posts 11-29-2019, 07:58 AM	6,491	458,041
'Look What I Bought Today!' - Part Deux LWIBT Part I has been locked, http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=147291533&page=1, so I'm starting Part 2. AttyGuy‎, 02-21-2017 11:30 AM 123 Pages • 1 2 3 4 5 ... 123	Last Post By Duplicitous View Profile View Forum Posts 11-27-2019, 05:33 PM	3,664	386,366
New Titan Fitness They put a lot of new products on the site today. Clone of the Rogue Hr-2 and Sml-2. I was browsing ebay and looks like they have a monolift not listed on their site yet. Seems to be be a bolt on. Type this # in ebay search: 132177711276 kevin3636‎, 05-01-2017 09:28 PM 135 Pages • 1 2 3 4 5 ... 135	Last Post By Bignick31985 View Profile View Forum Posts 12-04-2019, 11:10 AM	4,027	363,942
Another Craigslist dreamer........ With all the threads "is this a good deal" I figured we should have one to LOL at ads that are NOT a good deal. THis guy is a real dreamer. Notice the $20 hollow dumbbell handles? If he paid 1700 for these then he got raped : http://phoenix.craigslist.org/evl/spo/1171222890.html RemainDieHard‎, 05-15-2009 04:57 PM 89 Pages • 1 2 3 4 5 ... 89	Last Post By Froggert View Profile View Forum Posts 11-11-2019, 09:40 PM	2,661	329,638
Cost No Object: Machines and Free Weights, the Best of the Best. PART 2 Cost No Object List, Version 1.8: This thread is not meant to be a free weights vs machines thread, and I think we got that out of the way early in the thread. This thread is simply about discussing all the choices of various free weights and machine choices on the market that people feel... HealthNutMD‎, 03-28-2017 05:23 AM 26 Pages • 1 2 3 4 5 ... 26	Last Post By Duplicitous View Profile View Forum Posts Yesterday, 11:49 PM	775	190,282
The semi-official KIJIJI thread(for us canadians) this is what i got tonight for $50....i can sell the plates alone for at least $125: michaelstone‎, 07-21-2012 10:28 PM 47 Pages • 1 2 3 4 5 ... 47	Last Post By Recidivst View Profile View Forum Posts 11-19-2019, 02:52 PM	1,394	177,888
The Legendary Thread With the arrival of my new rack, I wanted to start up a thread on Legend Fitness equipment, to talk about and share picture of our equipment. If this proves to be sufficiently popular, we'll start a Legend Fitness club. Above is the picture of my new rack, a Fat Bar Power Station, # 3171. I... AttyGuy‎, 07-31-2014 07:59 PM 49 Pages • 1 2 3 4 5 ... 49	Last Post By gym62richard View Profile View Forum Posts 11-10-2019, 07:38 AM	1,441	174,714
Rep Fitness Thread Haven't seen a proper Rep Fitness thread, so figured we could make one. I received the PowerSpeed bar in Manganese Phosphate earlier today as well as the 275lb set of equalizers. Impressed with both. The new power bar is DEFINITELY more aggressive than the first iteration. I really like the... GamecockLifter‎, 10-19-2018 02:44 PM 30 Pages • 1 2 3 4 5 ... 30	Last Post By piratelifebad View Profile View Forum Posts 11-28-2019, 12:11 PM	879	98,415
The Official Cable Attachments Buyer's Guide So I thought this would be a good idea with Christmas right around the corner and all. I wanted to make a resourceful thread for people to post their favorite cable attachments with pics, opinions and reviews of why they like the piece(s) they own (Include the certain style of handle(s) and... Deep-Voiced-One‎, 12-08-2015 11:22 AM 16 Pages • 1 2 3 4 5 ... 16	Last Post By Za78 View Profile View Forum Posts 12-03-2019, 10:31 AM	471	95,753
The Official Edge Fitness Thread With the update of my gym being entirely made up of Edge Fitness equipment, and some interest on the forum in Rick's equipment, I figured now would be a good time to make a thread to show off anything you have from Edge. This will be a thread for questions about his equipment, CS, etc. A place... jimbuick‎, 02-25-2016 12:59 PM 5 Pages • 1 2 3 4 5	Last Post By skrebs01 View Profile View Forum Posts 11-27-2019, 03:56 PM	120	18,979
Belt squat machine Does anyone here have Wenning's Belt Squat or a Pit Shark? Or any other bely squat out there? If so, what kind of footprint does it take up? Obviously there is the machine size, but what size space does it actually need to work around it, load plates etc? I really want one, but $3-4k... Narc1911‎, 09-24-2017 10:46 AM 4 Pages • 1 2 3 4	Last Post By irongrandpa View Profile View Forum Posts 11-28-2019, 08:12 AM	107	17,158
Looking for best all around functional trainer. Would appreciate opinions of my list Hello all, I am new to the site and have been doing a lot of reading on people's opinions of functional trainers. I am currently in the market for one and have narrowed my search to the following models that I am considering: 1. FreeMotion Light Commercial EXT Dual Cable Cross 2. Legend... SKIinKC‎, 10-23-2017 11:38 PM 3 Pages • 1 2 3	Last Post By JustTheDad View Profile View Forum Posts 11-19-2019, 02:54 PM	83	11,288
Kabuki/Chris Duffin new trap bar From this instagram post, looks like it could be pretty cool. https://www.instagram.com/p/Bt9MlaChls1/ TunaGill‎, 02-18-2019 11:19 AM 3 Pages • 1 2 3	Last Post By martyanderson View Profile View Forum Posts 11-29-2019, 11:39 AM	60	9,255
Looking for extra j hooks for a 2x3 power rack. Anybody out there know where I could find these? I have tried searching ebay and google, but I can not seem to find any hooks for a power rack that has a 2x3 frame. ndmike99‎, 08-29-2009 04:27 PM	Last Post By JWKYA View Profile View Forum Posts 11-18-2019, 03:21 PM	11	8,653
Black Friday 2019 Wish List Rogue will kicking off it's Matte Black Friday tomorrow a few weeks early. Let's start our wish list of things you are looking forward to buying this year. StrongME2‎, 10-31-2019 05:18 AM 3 Pages • 1 2 3	Last Post By C123C View Profile View Forum Posts 12-03-2019, 05:27 AM	82	8,589
Legend 3142 Half-rack and 3100 Flat Bench Review Hi all. Long time lurker, but first post. Having decided to buy a new rack, reading both the old and new power rack threads multiple times, and searching the rest of the internet, I decided on this rack. Waited 8 months to save my nickels, did all the research again, and still came to the same... Texasred2k‎, 02-01-2012 08:05 PM 2 Pages • 1 2	Last Post By aloosecannon View Profile View Forum Posts 12-03-2019, 06:03 AM	38	7,627
Titan Fitness Fold Back Wall Mount T-3 Power Rack Review I know there is the Rogue Clone of this same product. But after considerable research and realizing I could save half the money after shipping and cheaper attachments I decided to go with the Titan Fitness rack. Im willing to bet the Rogue is a nicer version, however for me the cost of the Titan... Beyondhomegym‎, 07-07-2016 11:09 AM	Last Post By Mrvictor80 View Profile View Forum Posts 11-24-2019, 06:41 PM	13	7,355
Bolt Fitness Supply - Ever heard of these guys? Ran across this company on Instagram: http://boltfitnesssupply.com Just curious if anyone had any experience with them. First time I've seen them. Some of their equipment looks similar to Getrxd. Wasnt looking for anything specific but a couple pieces caught my eye & prices seemed... kram1979‎, 01-16-2018 08:53 PM 2 Pages • 1 2	Last Post By Austin109 View Profile View Forum Posts 12-02-2019, 01:39 AM	33	6,275
Rogue Echo Bike Opinions Anyone own and have any experience using this air bike? Thoughts on it? Even though cardio sucks and I could just walk and find other means of cardio on the cheap to nothing side of things, I figure in the New England weather such as winters I could use this bike and was thinking of possibly... Deep-Voiced-One‎, 07-10-2018 11:07 AM 2 Pages • 1 2	Last Post By greenleaf View Profile View Forum Posts 11-16-2019, 09:07 PM	44	5,341
ProStar Equipment Does anyone have any experience with ProStar Equipment? http://www.prostarsports.com/freeweights/benches/ dumb.bell‎, 11-04-2010 12:07 PM	Last Post By jdboyd78 View Profile View Forum Posts 11-29-2019, 07:04 PM	12	4,086