Seal Row Bench - Custom/DIY

DIY Kickstand, inspired by Donnie Thompson’s - The Kickstand. Used for Chest Supported Rows. Adjustable if you cut a few different lengths of pipe. Gave ChatGPT my hip height, total height, and desired torso angles, and it calculated the recommended total length for the piece. Worked perfectly. Components: Rep AB-3100 Seat, Abmat Barbell Bomb, 1 1/2” PVC and Table Cap (Formufit.com), Home Depot Pine Board & Hardware. Total Cost: <$100. Submitted as a separate Custom/DIY piece but figure this is the closest match.

I was inspired by watching Tom Havikand do thiabon a 2x6. I bought a 6-foot-long 2x10 board, 2 sawhorses rated at 500lb, a cheap yoga mat, and about 5 rolls of electric tape. It works great. And I can set it up in my rack to unrack the bar at various heights. I can also lay the board on some safeties to do chest-supported rows. Cost me around $60.00

WITH MY APPROACH TOOK A 2X12 PRESSURE TREATED LUMBER AND DESIGNED IT AND WRAPPED IT UP AND MADE A SEAL ROW THAT ATTACHES TO MY SQUAT RACK AND POOF HAVE ANOTHER ATTACHMENT THAT ALLOWS ME TO FOCUS ON MY BACK DOING STRICT MOVEMENTS

Same “diy utility Bench” use for box squats. Here use two modified 2x4’s for the cross pieces. Sit on the pins. Cut some pieces of 2x4 to make pieces to help hold them in place. The utility bench added couple of extra 2x4’s cross wise to keep it from moving forwards or back. Simple, stupidly cheap, and cheap. Does the job.

Purposely picked up the REP Utility Seat for this and it works a treat. It fits bang in the centre of the RM4 and its easy to dial in for use with the J cups and safeties

Not hand made but utilizing the rep utility bench in this fashion also doubles vertically as a backing for strict rows

Here’s how I built mine. I measure outside edge to outside edge on my safety arms for my rack and then built a wooden platform to lay across them out of 2x12’s stacked together, with 2x4’s in bottom to secure my pad on outside of spotter arms. We put a thick foam pad on with spray adhesive, wrapped in vinyl, and voila. Is it my crowning achievement? No. But for an hour of time, and $50 in material I have a functional seal row that is super easy and quick to setup.

To set up a seal row, I use my Rogue bench, DIY boxes, Rogue bar, and plates. This setup is fine for me since I have short arms, but you get the idea.