Build Outdoor Squat Rack

Two plastic 5 gallon buckets concrete mix and some wooden bars will make a great workout buddy.

Build outdoor squat rack.

By setting up the wooden planks as a frame with the help of hammer and nails and fixing them in the concrete mixture which is placed in the paint buckets you can make a cheap diy squat rack. I was scanning reddit the other day and saw an awesome tutorial for an outdoor weightlifting platform and squat rack. Attach the rack to a base plate to reinforce the boards and add extra stabilization. Now before some of you say omg this will break when i curl 200kg in.

Message me if you got any questions. Bolt the rack to the platform. Put your rack near the back of the lifting platform on top of the plywood lifting surface. You don t need a lot of expensive materials to make your own diy squat rack.

Time to bolt the rack to the platform. In this article we ll be taking a look at how to build your own squat rack for your home gym. Use the buckets as a base and the wooden bars attached to it as the holder for your weights. So i contacted the creator of the tutorial u iamgrrrrr and he said go ahead and post it on.

This will protect your knurling from wear. Tips for making your homemade squat rack even better. Here is another homemade wooden squat rack. All you would be needing is two five gallon paint buckets some concrete mix wooden planks hammer nails and wooden glue.

Once you have the rack nice and lined up drill a pilot hole for the lag screws as seen above. You can put it flush with the back or leave a bit of a gap between the back edge and the rack. Place rubber padding on the area that the bar rests. There are quite a few diy weightlifting platform tutorials available although i think mine is the best wink wink but there s very few that could stand the abuse of being outside.

In the photo above the metal sheets to reinforce the joints aren t on yet this one was built by redditor mr friz and cost approximately 50 us. That includes having a plan about what material you will use finding the necessary tools to actually do the job and of course blueprinting the whole shebang calculating dimensions spacing etc. See his thread on reddit here.