Same as everyone else I hunted across the internet for a while looking at landmine versions, other cable versions. This is 100% the simplest and best answer for the correct angle of pull.
This is definitely the best DIY video and you can use the platform for other cable exercises or even resistance band stuff! Ty this was exactly what I was looking for!!! I'm definitely making this. Ty again
I made this only I decided to do a slant board version. it works well! Only issue is you have to make sure the cable length is correct, or it will fly away when you step off.
It’s definitely the most simple one out of all. I can add an extra cable to the lat pull dow cable. My concern is the risk of injury once you hit failure. The norm lock is on the upright position. Here you’re maxed out one the bottom while trying to unhook from the cable. It’s great for light weight. 💪🏻
I’d like to commend you on your design. I’ve seen so many other DIY options that are more complicated and don’t allow for the proper range of motion nor the correct angle from the pulley. I will definitely be using this idea in my garage. 👍🏾👍🏾💪🏾💪🏾
it looks that this will work better than thoese levearage arms or a barbell belt squat since they pull you forward. With this cable platfrom it looks like you are squating right under the pulley and pulling the weight straight up and down instead of pulling forward like the leverage arms do and the barbell too
You could add strength, but leave room for the bottom bolt, by attaching the bottom wood pieces perpendicular to the top board. You could cover the entire bottom with counter-grain support with the exception of a small section for the bolt. 🙂🙂
This is the simplest DIY one, but in my opinion its got a major flaw in that it doesn't allow you to go deeper on your squat, as you can see you weren't able to go low enough so your legs are at 90 degrees. You should make your platform at least 6" higher or so to allow that to happen.
He started off below parallel to the floor and the weight starts to move just as he hits parallel. He just chose to not squat that low for the rest of the demonstration.
I love this idea, so I made one. But I think I found a problem, physics! I weigh 80kg. I loaded up just 60kg to test it and it started floating off the floor and sliding forward. The load is effectively lifting up with 60kg of force (~600N if you are being pedantic) and the board only has 20kg pressing down on it so it can slide forward if there is any lateral tension, which there always will be. So I'm going to install some hold down clamps on my power rack so I can quickly clamp the board in place when I need to use it. If you can't do this then you could make a longer board and add weight plates onto it to hold it down. Adding some non-slip surface like rubber to the bottom of the board would reduce the effect as well.
@@untappedstrength7548 I have tried that when I was setting up with a length of chain. It still floats as soon as you get tension on the load It makes sense if you imagine an exaggerated example. 500kg of weight pulling the cable up, you and the board weigh 100kg. If that 500kg magically got up, then what would happen if it came down? How is 100kg going to prevent it from lifting you into the air? The board is not fixed down. So either you have to balance the weight you are lifting by adding weight to the board, you fix the board down or you change the angle that the force of the load is acting. So a lower attachment point would work better. Ideally the load would be directly below you, pulling you down onto the board.
@@aries6776 If you skip to 4:53 of the video, you will see that the pulleys on the cable machine are raised about shoulder height, just high enough for the extension cable to wrap around the pulley on the board. There should be absolutely no tension on the board if you setup this way. Then what you do is stand on the board and squat as low as possible just so that you can attach your belt to the carabiner under you. When you're done squatting, squat back down to a point where there is no tension on the cable and you should be able to unhook the belt from the carabiner.
@@untappedstrength7548 ofc there will be tension on the board. The cable and wire will pullit forward. Theres is a reason why the video does not show it in action with any significant load.. because the design cant handle it.. its easy to see.. yes i build one to test, and no it does not work With any significant load..
The platform should be closer to the rack so that the cable is nearly vertical and won't want to pull you forward. That puts you within arms reach of the weight so you can set up a rope loop attached to the top of the tower to loop around the weight holder so that you can start in the standing position.
Does it matter what height you have the BD-62 set to for this? It looks like you have it set a few notches from the top? Have you tried at lower settings? I built the deck and am wondering the length of cable or if it even matters? Thank you.
This only works with very light weights! With that kind of load, goblet squats would be quicker and easier. If you made this with a bigger board and then use 45-pound plates on top of either side to counterbalance the weight being pulled.
@@flink85 Um, I have no idea what you mean by "high reps." I do belt squats in a setup similar to the setup in this video using five 20kg plates for about 15-20 reps. That is what I would call a high rep range. In this video, he only uses 20 pounds because using much more weight would be difficult and the closer you approach your own bodyweight, the more impossible it would become. AND if 20-pound goblet squats are too much load on your spine, then you are seriously in trouble and should seek medical attention.
@@Abraham_Kist-Okazaki 15-20 would be higher yes. Well the entire point is to be able to load legs properly without loading the spine. Goblets are good for beginners learning the squatting pattern. However, when the legs get stronger your core, wrists, upper back etc will give out before your legs.
@@flink85 And my point is that 20-pound belt squats in this setup aren't enough to load the legs enough to load the legs and that it would be no more effective than goblet squats.
Why not just slide the pulley down to the bottom and hook up there without having to make anything? I have a lat pull down with a low pulley and do that
This would also lower the pulley, allowing for a deeper squat. Most of these cable belt squat setups, including the commercial ones, have you quarter squatting. Other than SquatMax, I can't think of another cable belt squat, DIY or commercial, that allowed below parallel depth.
How much weight have you used on this? Obviously, the belt in the video is your limiting factor, but I'm wondering if you're worried that the eye bolt will pull through the platform at higher weights. Thanks for the DIY!
Not too much to be honest. However I would highly suggest getting a better quality, stronger board for the platform. As you pointed out I probably wouldn't go too heavy not to risk that the eye bolt pulling through the board. That wouldn't be fun.
One possibility would be adding a second eyebolt and pulley to give yourself mechanical disadvantage (so one pulley would be hanging from the belt, with one side feeding to the board pulley, and the other would just terminate at the second eye bolt. If you loaded 100lbs on the cable machine, both eyebolts would have 100lbs of force on them, while you will feel 200lbs of resistance. The weight carriage will move 2x your squat's ROM, but I'd expect there's room for that.
This would put extremely high tension on the wood, maybe have the attachment follow a sort of triangle path, tension on the board is half the tension on the cable divided by the sin of the angle with horizontal, for the board it's almost 0 degrees so we are dividing by 0. If it's a triangle eg at angle 15 degrees the tension on the attachment would only be about twice the tension on the cable. I had made a similar movable pulley attachment with extra cable for my power rack lat pulldown, which allows me to attach a pulley at any of the slots in the power rack, making the thing long enough that the angle with horizontal stays at 30 degrees so there isn't too much tension. Also I found out about this from diagrams that came with a pulley I bought 😂😂.
I think it could be reinforced easily. Maybe cross bracing underneath. Lots of space still under there. Might try a hunk of oak someone has lying around. A more complicated approach, though not that much more, would be to laminate wood strips side by side. Think of a cutting board for instance. That would increase stability dramatically I believe. 🙂
If I understand you correctly, you wouldn't want to do that because the force would causing a sheering effect on your knees. It's really best to keep the cable as directly below your hips as possible to avoid undue sheer on your knees. Unless you could use an angled foot board to keep the force perpendicular to the line between your hips and feet.
@@ratchat123 Oh I get you. So the cable coming into the pulley is a close to the horizontal as possible. I don't think it's much of an issue however if you use a decent sized washer to spread the load. Plywood is pretty strong in compression which is the force of the nut pulling on the washer and onto the wood.
It would have to be an extremely heavy dumbbell for it to stay in place and just the friction of the cable rubbing on the handle would be pretty significant.
@@firstfloor5347 That was my first thought but unfortunately I didn't make the board bigger enough for that. So I'm adding some hold down clamps to my power rack, that will hold the board in place.
You will never be able to do any heavy load, because the wire will forward the board to much, at sort a force, that it will possible fly 8nto the tower with great force.. this is actually not a very good design.
Usually I like the diy stuff, but houlda went a little thicker for just this one area. Other areas of cable pulley systems can be cheap, but enough weight and that's going through your balls 😆😆
The only issue with this unsecured platform design is that if you're squatting a significant portion of your weight, the reduced weight on the platform will allow it to slide. Not real safe.
This is by far the best one I seen so far will be redesigning a little but using the same thing
Appreciate the feedback. If I were to build a new one I’d definitely use a stronger board.
I second that.
Same as everyone else I hunted across the internet for a while looking at landmine versions, other cable versions. This is 100% the simplest and best answer for the correct angle of pull.
This is definitely the best DIY video and you can use the platform for other cable exercises or even resistance band stuff! Ty this was exactly what I was looking for!!! I'm definitely making this. Ty again
I made this only I decided to do a slant board version. it works well! Only issue is you have to make sure the cable length is correct, or it will fly away when you step off.
I've been racking my brain for an easy way to do this. This is just what I needed. Thanks. I'll be doing this tomorrow.
That's awesome!
It’s definitely the most simple one out of all. I can add an extra cable to the lat pull dow cable. My concern is the risk of injury once you hit failure. The norm lock is on the upright position. Here you’re maxed out one the bottom while trying to unhook from the cable. It’s great for light weight. 💪🏻
Thank you!
@@untappedstrength7548Hi, can i do the same thing using my body solid universal gym that has a cable pulley down by the floor? how would i do that?
Wow, VERY creative man! I love it. I'm going to keep this in mind as a future piece of my budget garage gym!
Thanks! Appreciate it.
I’d like to commend you on your design. I’ve seen so many other DIY options that are more complicated and don’t allow for the proper range of motion nor the correct angle from the pulley. I will definitely be using this idea in my garage. 👍🏾👍🏾💪🏾💪🏾
Thanks so much for your feedback!
Amazing idea.
You should've got this patented & used a heavy metal board, you could've made a fortune!
I should have!
Great especially for those the can’t do squat because of back disc pain . Thanks
Agree. I heard the same about belt squats and how they benefit those with lower back pain.
Yeah I switched to Front Squats from Back Squats but eventually that became a problem too. Going to try this.
it looks that this will work better than thoese levearage arms or a barbell belt squat since they pull you forward. With this cable platfrom it looks like you are squating right under the pulley and pulling the weight straight up and down instead of pulling forward like the leverage arms do and the barbell too
Wow, this is a great idea, thanks. I was going to build platforms but this saves more space , time and is cheaper. You the man!
Glad I could help!
Not something I need but I sure like the simplicity and function of your work.
You could add strength, but leave room for the bottom bolt, by attaching the bottom wood pieces perpendicular to the top board. You could cover the entire bottom with counter-grain support with the exception of a small section for the bolt. 🙂🙂
Great tip!
Amazing idea, I'm going to make it for sure, thanks man!!
I wonder if I could set up belt squats with titan selectorized lat pull down machine? However I would like to start on top due to bad knee
Good tut. Had the idea to build a belt squat rig today so thanks for the vid and for the ideas. I was thinking something similar.
Glad to help
Not gonna lie... I went from I don't know what this guy is thinking but I'll watch it to this is genius and copying it in 3 seconds flat!
That's so cool!
This one is amazing!
hey man great stuff. how do you get around the issue of the wood sliding forward when the weight gets heavy?
I imagine your bodyweight should be sufficient to keep it un place unless you decide to belt squat 300 lbs
@@Polentaccio is that unreasonable?
Super idea! As soon as I get all the materials I will build one of my own 👍
Thanks! Appreciate it.
Man this is perfect, I'll make the same this week.
This is the simplest DIY one, but in my opinion its got a major flaw in that it doesn't allow you to go deeper on your squat, as you can see you weren't able to go low enough so your legs are at 90 degrees. You should make your platform at least 6" higher or so to allow that to happen.
He started off below parallel to the floor and the weight starts to move just as he hits parallel. He just chose to not squat that low for the rest of the demonstration.
Awesome! Going to be adding this to my home made pulley
Sounds great!
That's a nice home gym hack! I'm definitely going to build the platform
That’s great to hear!
Great idea!! What size is your platform ?
about 1'x3.5' board. It's literally what I had laying around.
GREAT IDEA ... 💡 👍
What is that thing with wheels and a seat by the garage door?
haha, had to go back and check. It's a hoverboard kart seat.
I love this idea, so I made one. But I think I found a problem, physics! I weigh 80kg. I loaded up just 60kg to test it and it started floating off the floor and sliding forward. The load is effectively lifting up with 60kg of force (~600N if you are being pedantic) and the board only has 20kg pressing down on it so it can slide forward if there is any lateral tension, which there always will be.
So I'm going to install some hold down clamps on my power rack so I can quickly clamp the board in place when I need to use it. If you can't do this then you could make a longer board and add weight plates onto it to hold it down. Adding some non-slip surface like rubber to the bottom of the board would reduce the effect as well.
It should not float no matter how much weight you add. You need to use the cable extension and leave enough slack so it doesn't move the board.
@@untappedstrength7548 I have tried that when I was setting up with a length of chain. It still floats as soon as you get tension on the load
It makes sense if you imagine an exaggerated example. 500kg of weight pulling the cable up, you and the board weigh 100kg. If that 500kg magically got up, then what would happen if it came down? How is 100kg going to prevent it from lifting you into the air? The board is not fixed down.
So either you have to balance the weight you are lifting by adding weight to the board, you fix the board down or you change the angle that the force of the load is acting. So a lower attachment point would work better. Ideally the load would be directly below you, pulling you down onto the board.
@@aries6776 If you skip to 4:53 of the video, you will see that the pulleys on the cable machine are raised about shoulder height, just high enough for the extension cable to wrap around the pulley on the board. There should be absolutely no tension on the board if you setup this way. Then what you do is stand on the board and squat as low as possible just so that you can attach your belt to the carabiner under you. When you're done squatting, squat back down to a point where there is no tension on the cable and you should be able to unhook the belt from the carabiner.
@@untappedstrength7548 This is what happened when I try to squat my bodyweight (80kg). ruclips.net/video/zOH9qrr6KjE/видео.html
@@untappedstrength7548 ofc there will be tension on the board. The cable and wire will pullit forward. Theres is a reason why the video does not show it in action with any significant load.. because the design cant handle it.. its easy to see.. yes i build one to test, and no it does not work With any significant load..
Out of curiosity, around what size is that board?
The platform should be closer to the rack so that the cable is nearly vertical and won't want to pull you forward. That puts you within arms reach of the weight so you can set up a rope loop attached to the top of the tower to loop around the weight holder so that you can start in the standing position.
Doesn't that setup pull you forwards if you use heavier weights?
By using the extension cable it will prevent it from being pulled forward.
How long did you trim the cable ? In the link its 30 ft… your length looks good what did you cut it to
Massive help, mate! Thanks a lot!
Glad you found it helpful!!
Like what you did and I have a question. Does this setup targets the quads like a true barbell squat?
Yes! all the load is on your legs especially if you try to keep your back as vertical as possible.
Does it matter what height you have the BD-62 set to for this? It looks like you have it set a few notches from the top? Have you tried at lower settings? I built the deck and am wondering the length of cable or if it even matters? Thank you.
I can set it to the highest point without any issues.
how is it holding up after all this time?
Honestly haven't used it quite some time.
thanks for the video
I got a $29.00 Landmine from Amazon. It doesn't even have to be bolted to the floor.
🙌🏼🙌🏼 great job
Thank you!!
This is what i needed thanks
awesome!
well done man, I like it!
Thank! Appreciate it.
what did you use to cut the cable to length?
clever but could it handle any real weight? I don't think so.
not using that board at least. Maybe v.2 will be much stronger.
This only works with very light weights! With that kind of load, goblet squats would be quicker and easier. If you made this with a bigger board and then use 45-pound plates on top of either side to counterbalance the weight being pulled.
Goblets load the spine. The belt squat are better suited for high reps anyway.
@@flink85 Um, I have no idea what you mean by "high reps." I do belt squats in a setup similar to the setup in this video using five 20kg plates for about 15-20 reps. That is what I would call a high rep range. In this video, he only uses 20 pounds because using much more weight would be difficult and the closer you approach your own bodyweight, the more impossible it would become.
AND if 20-pound goblet squats are too much load on your spine, then you are seriously in trouble and should seek medical attention.
@@Abraham_Kist-Okazaki 15-20 would be higher yes. Well the entire point is to be able to load legs properly without loading the spine. Goblets are good for beginners learning the squatting pattern. However, when the legs get stronger your core, wrists, upper back etc will give out before your legs.
@@flink85 And my point is that 20-pound belt squats in this setup aren't enough to load the legs enough to load the legs and that it would be no more effective than goblet squats.
@@Abraham_Kist-Okazaki why would you only load 20lbs? Full weight stack or even 2 full stacks are possible if you anchor the platform properly.
Why not just slide the pulley down to the bottom and hook up there without having to make anything? I have a lat pull down with a low pulley and do that
For under $12 excluding the pulley ?
Yes.
Smart great idea
Thanks!
Make it simpler and buy a pulley that bolts to the board and get rid of the eye bolt and extra connector
yep, I was thinking the same and in fact I am going to do it that way
This would also lower the pulley, allowing for a deeper squat. Most of these cable belt squat setups, including the commercial ones, have you quarter squatting. Other than SquatMax, I can't think of another cable belt squat, DIY or commercial, that allowed below parallel depth.
How much weight have you used on this? Obviously, the belt in the video is your limiting factor, but I'm wondering if you're worried that the eye bolt will pull through the platform at higher weights. Thanks for the DIY!
Not too much to be honest. However I would highly suggest getting a better quality, stronger board for the platform. As you pointed out I probably wouldn't go too heavy not to risk that the eye bolt pulling through the board. That wouldn't be fun.
One possibility would be adding a second eyebolt and pulley to give yourself mechanical disadvantage (so one pulley would be hanging from the belt, with one side feeding to the board pulley, and the other would just terminate at the second eye bolt. If you loaded 100lbs on the cable machine, both eyebolts would have 100lbs of force on them, while you will feel 200lbs of resistance. The weight carriage will move 2x your squat's ROM, but I'd expect there's room for that.
This time I will do it manually with the help of Woodglut designs.
This does not work with higher weight. I tried.
How come? I was thinking of doing something similar but might rethink if it doesn’t work with a higher weight
@@Jay-dp7kl It wanted to launch me, I'm 215lbs.
@kwhuisman So each side of the wood plank should be fastened to the ground or weighted by something? Thanks.
☝️☝️😂😂 yeah I can do 3X my weight! So it won’t work…
This would put extremely high tension on the wood, maybe have the attachment follow a sort of triangle path, tension on the board is half the tension on the cable divided by the sin of the angle with horizontal, for the board it's almost 0 degrees so we are dividing by 0. If it's a triangle eg at angle 15 degrees the tension on the attachment would only be about twice the tension on the cable. I had made a similar movable pulley attachment with extra cable for my power rack lat pulldown, which allows me to attach a pulley at any of the slots in the power rack, making the thing long enough that the angle with horizontal stays at 30 degrees so there isn't too much tension. Also I found out about this from diagrams that came with a pulley I bought 😂😂.
I think it could be reinforced easily. Maybe cross bracing underneath. Lots of space still under there. Might try a hunk of oak someone has lying around.
A more complicated approach, though not that much more, would be to laminate wood strips side by side. Think of a cutting board for instance. That would increase stability dramatically I believe. 🙂
If I understand you correctly, you wouldn't want to do that because the force would causing a sheering effect on your knees. It's really best to keep the cable as directly below your hips as possible to avoid undue sheer on your knees. Unless you could use an angled foot board to keep the force perpendicular to the line between your hips and feet.
@@aries6776 I meant the triangle apex is formed by the pulley underneath, the cable goes straight vertically down into the pulley from the belt
@@ratchat123 Oh I get you. So the cable coming into the pulley is a close to the horizontal as possible. I don't think it's much of an issue however if you use a decent sized washer to spread the load. Plywood is pretty strong in compression which is the force of the nut pulling on the washer and onto the wood.
You are awesome 👏
😀
clever
Wouldn't just place a heavy dumbbell on the floor with the cable going under it to the same?
It would have to be an extremely heavy dumbbell for it to stay in place and just the friction of the cable rubbing on the handle would be pretty significant.
Did u try squatting ur weight ? Did it move ?😄
I did, it started lifting off the floor! (was actually 20kg below my bodyweight)
@@aries6776 it was expected, try adding weigh pegs and throw some plates on them
@@firstfloor5347 That was my first thought but unfortunately I didn't make the board bigger enough for that. So I'm adding some hold down clamps to my power rack, that will hold the board in place.
👍😎
Great idea..but bigger guys+ the weight included will wreck
That platform over time
yes, this is definitely just a demo but i would recommend using a much better board.
Smart 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
You will never be able to do any heavy load, because the wire will forward the board to much, at sort a force, that it will possible fly 8nto the tower with great force.. this is actually not a very good design.
Usually I like the diy stuff, but houlda went a little thicker for just this one area. Other areas of cable pulley systems can be cheap, but enough weight and that's going through your balls 😆😆
Thanks for the tips!
The only issue with this unsecured platform design is that if you're squatting a significant portion of your weight, the reduced weight on the platform will allow it to slide. Not real safe.
If that pulley comes of the platform, your nuts are busted! 😧
Nice but too flimsy for me, I squat a lot more than the rated 340lbs. I would pull that hook right out.
Certainly not rated for that much.
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thanks!