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I must respectfully disagree with Coop on this one--can't recommend it. I've owned/used mine for about 4 years now, and have had my own weight room for about 9 years. I bought this rack primarily because $ was tight at the time I was able to get this one with interest free financing for one year. Had that not been a factor, I would have looked at other racks. The main downside here is pricing--ForceUSA's B.S. customization system means you pay 600 for a rack with NO safeties, J-Hooks or pull up bar (!?) And a rack without those items is literally just a useless hunk of steel. By the time you add those a-la-carte items to this rack in order to make it usable, this unit will set you back 750 bucks! There are many, MANY comparable racks on the market that do come with those items included, at way better price points, like a few hundred bucks less. And most of those are 11 gauge steel instead of ForceUSA's 12 gauge steel. Two more problems: 1) As Coop pointed out, most racks are 2X2, 2X3 or 3X3 tubular steel. ForceUSA makes there uprights out of a 2.4" steel, which is their way of forcing you to buy only their attachments--Rogue, Titan, Rep, etc. etc all make numerous more or less universal attachments, none of which will work with this rack. 2) Some of ForceUSA's attachments are complete garbage. The plate storage pins are crap. And the knee hold down attachment to use with the lat pull down attachment is complete garbage--the design is so bad it just won't work--it slides all over the place when you try to lock your knees under it. i wound up throwing it away and now just use a loaded bar set across the safeties at the correct height with a squat pad on it. A pain to set up but WAY better than their $99 attachment. ForceUSA needs to start including j hooks and safeties at a bare minimum, AND lower their prices. Having said all that, i like the rack and it's a god looking piece of equipment. And lest you think i hate Force USA, I also own their leg press/hack squat machine, and find it to be the best and most economical one on the market.