Fitness styles are changing. In recognition over the last 10 years, have you seen how much practical fitness has grown? This, and the trend towards training common population students like athletes, has changed the requirements of a school weight room. It is essential to make the appropriate decision. More frequently than every 10-15 years since most schools do not have an opportunity to do the main update on their weight room. You will be living with it for pretty a while. This post is all about educating you on the divergences, advantages, and limitations of Container Rigs and Racks.
What is a rig?
Rigs are hard to define, they are so adaptable. We will identify a rig as a versatile frame with the capability to reconfigure your “stations” to your requirements of the day, for the aim of our discussion today. From 4’ all the way 24’ and ahead of it can be anywhere. It can be just about any shape you need with almost any kind of station you need. We will think you would be choosing your rig with as many lifting stations as possible.
What is a rack?
We are discussing half racks, ¾ racks, and power racks. They can be occupied with storage, they can be “doubled” back-to-back, and there are even only some accessories that can be included. Often you can think to get not only a lifting station but also a pull-up station.
Pros of a rig: While offering a way to transition to other modalities, rigs are a good solution to getting the maximum number of customers in a tight space. What does that mean? Versatility. You could have a 24’ self-standing rig in the mid of your space or anything in between, you could have a tiny 4’ wall-encased rig.
The number of students you need to train concurrently means that you can customize your rig to your training style. One alternative we love is a 6’ by 24’ rig. You can observe by walking down the center of the rig because a setup like that means that you can have 6 lifting stations.
You can set-ups such as dips, pull-ups, TRX, glute/ham, ball targets, battle ropes, etc., when you are not doing lifts, you have an unending number of stations. While other stations on both sides of the rig are being used, maybe you even need to have turf down the center so that your students can be pulling a sled in the secure space in the center of the rig.
Conclusion:
Gym Rigs can be just about any shape a customer wants with almost any type of station they want, there are yet a few accessories that can be added with racks. Often, they can expect to get not only a lifting station but also a pull-up station.
