Guest guest Posted March 5, 2003 Report Share Posted March 5, 2003 I may be opening a huge can of worms here, but I am looking for thoughts, recommendations, or any information you can give on equipment. I am an athletic trainer small NAIA school, we are building a weight room (approximately 3500 square feet). This will be mainly used by football, but other sports will have access. We do not have a strength coach, but I have a background in the area, but am not an expert in facility use or design. So, my questions are: 1. Any equipment brand that should be avoided or strongly considered? currently use Wynmor (now York). 2. We are mainly going for free weight equipment; any machines that should be considered. 3. We will have about 40 athletes in the room at any time - any equipment number recommendations? Thanks in advance for any and all help, and sorry to have so many questions. Danny Sterling Virginia * Please sign all letters with full name and city if you wish them to be published Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 5, 2003 Report Share Posted March 5, 2003 Danny, I am a high school football coach and we just got all new equipment. Here is what I liked and did not like. We also got all free weights and a couple of machines. I would recomend getting 12 - 15 power racks. Make sure they have and overhead bar and the bar on the floor is raised slightly for band attachment. These racks also make it great for organizing the athletes and performing their lifts. Each rack should have a bench and about 400 lbs. I like our bench can be used for flat, decline, and incline and military. We got the pro-elite multi rack and I wish we would of went with the power rack but I do like the multi rack. We also got the glute ham machine from them, I would not recommend them. It wobbles and the padding is not great. A buddy of mine is using another brand and they are a lot better. I will find out the name if you are interested. I also like the reverse hyper that Louie promotes. I would also get dumbbells at least two sets. I also would get a set of average and mini bands from jump stretch. You can simulate just about anything a machine can do with these and they take up no space. I would get a set for each rack. If you have any space left I would also get a few lat pull down machines. I like the ones we got from pro-elite. I hope this helps. I truly believe when you train a group of athletes have racks make it easy to organize and get a great workout in as well. Rick Lytle Cleveland, Ohio rlytle2000@... ------------ Danny Sterling: > 1. Any equipment brand that should be avoided or > strongly considered? > currently use Wynmor (now York). > > 2. We are mainly going for free weight equipment; > any machines that > should be considered. > > 3. We will have about 40 athletes in the room at > any time - any > equipment number recommendations? > > Thanks in advance for any and all help, and sorry to > have so many > questions. * Please sign all letters with full name and city if you wish them to be published Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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