Athena® - Side-Mount Functional Trainer Builder

The left-sided and right-sided orientations are determined when facing the rack.

- Place your weight horns on the back of your rear storage upright.

- Purchase an additional pair of uprights and a set of 30" crossmembers and build your weight storage out to the side. See Here

- Save space using the Wall Mounted Plate Storage.

- If space is not an issue, we offer many other off-the-rack weight plate storage options.

The band peg on the weight stack cannot clear past standard 17.7” diameter plates without the use of the spacers. It can clear past smaller plates. The spacers also prevent you from pinching your fingers between the weight stack and the plates when loading onto the weight storage pins.

Yes, but only if you purchase the Rear Base Stabilizer 2.0. The new RBS 2.0 mounts to the sides of the uprights instead of the rear. This allows the RBS 2.0 to not interfere with the stack or carriage that sits inside the 16" crossmembers. The RBS 2.0 also allows you to mount your safeties at a lower position.

If you have a 4-Post Athena®, you must mount the RBS 2.0 and lat pulldown and low row to the back uprights. 

Yes. A conversion kit (coming soon) will provide the necessary components to turn your 4000 or 5000 series Side-Mount Functional Trainer attachment into the selectorized attachment. The selectorized attachment allows you to change the weight using a pin and weight stack instead of plates. 

The plate-loaded Athena® is ideal for the lifter looking for a lower-cost machine, owns a sizable plate collection, and is okay with creating an alternative weight storage solution to storing weights on the side of the rack. 

The selectorized Athena® is ideal for people who want the magnetic pin for quick and easy weight changes, want to continue to use their existing weight storage system, and don’t own a large plate collection. Both have a max weight capacity of 540lbs. The selectorized Athena® can integrate bands to reach that max.

Only the PR-4000 6-post and PR-5000 series power racks are compatible. For the PR-4000, you must have the updated 16” crossmembers with vertical holes. PR-5000 owners should verify they own the updated PR-5000 power rack, which has 1” holes along the upright, whereas the original has alternating 5/8” holes and 1” holes. The original was discontinued in 2020. The attachment is not compatible with the discontinued version.

The Athena® is not compatible with any flat-footed rack configuration (OMNI, Apollo, or the original HR-5000) or with a 4-post PR-4000.

This depends on which configuration you choose. There are configuration descriptions to see what is or is not included with each configuration. For the PR-4000, you will need to upgrade the 16” crossmembers if the ones you currently own don't have vertical holes.

Yes. If you order an 80” rack, the 93” attachment will not be compatible. Vice versa, if you order a 93” rack, the 80” attachment will not be compatible. 

The plate-loaded Athena® attachment adds 7.9” of depth to the front of your rack (trolley), 1.8” of height (top pulleys), and 12.3” of width per side (weight horns). The selectorized Athena® adds 7.9” of depth to the front of your rack (trolley), 1.8” of height (top pulleys), and either 3.7” (PR-4000 bottom band peg) or 5.0” (PR-5000 trolley handle) of width.

The cable travel is 82.8” for the 80” attachment and 106” for the 93” attachment. 

The lowest usable weight for the plate-loaded version is 7lbs (empty carriage). The lowest usable weight setting on the selectorized version is 10lbs.

We cannot guarantee compatibility due to machining/manufacturing differences between companies. 

The Athena® will ship ground or freight depending on quantity purchased (left, right, or dual-sided) or if the unit(s) are purchased in conjunction with other large/heavy items. 

Structural welds on attachments and frames have a lifetime warranty. Pop-pins, pulleys, bearings, and cables have a one-year warranty. 

The Globe Front Mount Pull-up Bar is not compatible with the 41”+ 16” configuration for either the 4000 or 5000 Series Athena®+Rack. The Globe Pull-up Bar was updated in 2020. The older version will not work with any configuration of the Athena®. 

*If you purchase the Globe Pull-up Bar there will be some rubbing with the cables.*

*The 4-post Athena®+Rack Builder does not display a pull-up bar that is compatible with the configuration (...yet).*

The amount of bumper plates you can store depends on the size. You can store up to 13 45lb Competition Bumper Plates per shelf. When using 45lb REP Pinnacle Plates, you can store up to 12. When using the Black Bumper Plates, you can store up to 13. Each shelf can hold three medicine balls at a time. With slam balls you can store up to four REP 5-30lb Slam Balls or three REP 35-70lb Slam Balls per 41” shelf.

You can fit pairs of 5lb-20lb, 25lb-35lb, 40lb-50lb, 55lb-65lb, 70lb-75lb, 80lb-85lb, 90-95lb, or 95-100lb dumbbells on a single 41” shelf. You can fit a full set of our 5-50lb dumbbells on three 41” dumbbell shelves. Rubber Coated Dumbbells are not compatible.

Each shelf has a usable area of 3.13 square feet.  It will depend on the size of the kettlebells, and the orientation you choose to store them (single or staggered).  You can stagger pairs of 8kg-18kg(6 pairs), pairs of 10kg-20kg(6 pairs), pairs of 16kg-22kg(4 pairs), pairs of 20kg-24kg(3 pairs), pairs of 22-28kg(3 pairs), pairs of 24-32kg(3 pairs), pairs of 36kg-40kg(2 pairs), or pairs of 44kg-48kg(2 Pairs) of Kettlebells (kg) on a single shelf.   

The Dumbbell Storage Shelf, Kettlebell Storage Shelf, and Ball & Plate Storage Shelf have a weight capacity of 600lbs.

We do not recommend installing them any higher than 60”. 

The 41" shelves plus additional upright will add 46" in width per side. 

15.9" will be added to the depth of the rack with the Elbow Brackets, Mini Front Foot Extensions, and shelves.