what is the minimum space for a power rack

BlackJack96

I cleaned out my basement and made some space in my HVAC room. I have the following dimensions to work with. Ceiling height 85 inches. Width:102 inches (there's a few more feet of space beyond that but you'd have duck underneath an air handler and on the other side is the water heater and boiler.. depth 80ish inches (wall to drainpipe that protrudes from wall) 50ish inches from door when fully open (would be closed when working out but need to open to get in room) to drain pipe.

I was looking at the Titan x3. I'm not lifting so much that I need 3x3 posts but it's 2 inches shorter which would give me more pull up room on the top. Also if I put some floor padding underneath.

I would look at a "shorty" 6 foot bar given the width so I have some space on each side to load weights . The dimensions of the rack are 54 inch width by 33 inch depth.

So effectively I'd have about 4 feet of space in front of the rack. about 2 feet of space on each side (1.5 to load bar).

Is this too tight of a space to work with? I thought about doing some the squat stands but the depth of the 24 inch rack is actually less than the squat stands.

Retroguy2000

I don't know, but it sounds like just from the way you're talking about, you're worried if there's enough space. And you'll probably need more space than you're thinking.

Check out the garagegymreviews YT channel. They've reviewed tons of home equipment, maybe you can come up with different options for space saving.

Also, do you even need a rack? If you have db's that go heavy enough and a bench, you can do everything you need. And a barbell without a rack adds many other options too such as deadlift, RDL, barbell row, and something I do for my quads: barbell hack squat with heels elevated (bar starts behind you, do a reverse deadlift and lower to parallel, then back up). Or you can do legs with just db's, with lunges, goblet squat, Bulgarian, step ups, etc.