Box rack with functional training devices

An exercise machine comprising:

• a box rack configured to facilitate performance of various barbell-based free weight exercise movements, said box rack comprising:
• a first vertical member located at a front side of said box rack;
• a second vertical member located at said front side of said box rack;
• a third vertical member located at a rear side of said box rack opposing said first side;
• a fourth vertical member located at said rear side of said box rack;
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• a number of horizontal members extending between at least two of the first, second, third, and fourth vertical members;
• wherein said first, second, third, and fourth vertical members and the horizontal members form a framework defining a cage forming a cuboid shaped open space for user performance of said various barbell exercises with an Olympic sized barbell such that ends of said Olympic sized barbell extend outside of a left side and a right side of said box rack while performing said various barbell exercises using said Olympic sized barbell within said cage;
• a first functional training device comprising a first cable pull device having adjacent pulleys and a first carriage mounted to said first vertical member in a slidable fashion for selective securement at any of a number of vertical positions along said first vertical member and;
• a second functional training device comprising a second cable pull device having adjacent pulleys and a second carriage mounted to said second vertical member in a slideable fashion for selective securement at any of a number of vertical positions along said second vertical member;
• a first and second weight stacks, each associated with at least one of said third and fourth vertical members of said box rack;
• a first set of one or more cables connecting said first weight stack to said first cable pull device, wherein at least one of said cables in said first set of one or more cables comprises a distal portion which extends though said adjacent pulleys of said first cable pull device and comprises a first stopper or attachment mechanism positioned beyond said adjacent pulleys of said first cable pull device to prevent said at least one of said cables in said first set of one or more cables from retracting past said adjacent pulleys of said first cable pull device;
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• a second set of one or more cables connecting said second weight stack to said second cable pull device, wherein at least one of said cables in said second set of one or more cables comprises a distal portion which extends through said adjacent pulleys of said second cable pull device and comprises a second stopper or attachment mechanism positioned beyond said adjacent pulleys of said second cable pull device to prevent said at least one of said cables in said second set of one or more cables from retracting past said adjacent pulleys of said second cable pull device;
• wherein each of said one or more cables in said first and second set of one or more cables extend along members of said box rack and such that said left side and said right side of said box rack are unobstructed to facilitate performance of said various barbell exercises with said Olympic sized barbell within said cage.

An exercise apparatus comprising:

• a full power rack comprising a number of vertically extending members and a number of horizontally extending members, said vertically and horizontally extending members forming a cage having open sides for a user to perform various barbell-based free weight exercise movements comprising squats while ends of said barbell extend though said open sides of said cage;
• a weight stack associated with said full power rack;
• a cable pull device slidably attached to one of a number of the vertically extending members forming said cage in a manner which permits temporary securement of said cable pull device at a number of vertical positions along said one of said number of the vertically extending members;
• one or more cables connecting said weight stack and to said cable pull device, wherein said cable pull device and said one or more cables are configured to facilitate the performance of various three-dimensional resistance-based exercise movements, wherein said one ore more cables extend along said one of said number of vertically extending members and at least one of said number of horizontally extending members such that the open side of the cage are unobstructed for the user to perform said various barbell-based free weight exercise movements while said ends of said barbell extend through said open sides of said cage;
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• a stopper or attachment mechanism located on a portion of one of said one more cables extending through and beyond said cable pull device to prevent said portion of said one or more cables from retracting past said cable pull device.