PRx Performance Profile Belt Squat Attachment Review (Power Rack or Wall Mounted)

Hey guys, this is Michael with the Jungle Gym Reviews. Today we're reviewing a new rack slash wall mounted attachment in the PRX Profile belt squat. This is one of PRX's newest products made in collaboration with Vendetta strength and athletics simple pendulum style belt squat meaning it has a singular point where it mounts to either wall with studs or a Rack with their supplied brackets.

It has a folding weight horn folding kickstand spud ink belt squat belt and a pivoting bracket so you can do linear or Unlocked do free swinging left to right movements This thing is a pretty loaded belt squat right out of the box with everything you need and coming in at $550 for everything included. This is potentially a great way to add a lot of versatility and heavy lifting to your leg day So let's check it out First and foremost this belt squat attachment is attached to either wall or rack here you will see it rack mounted It is currently mounted to a get our rexed three by three rack This attachment is said to work with three by three racks obviously including PRX's build limitless series Which is the exact same upright and tubing they use here This is the three by three eleven gauge steel five eighth inch holes and Imperial three by three meaning true three inch by three inch and two inch hole spacing all the way through It's compatible with any three by three five eighth or one inch Now before I get into the rest of the video You could quickly hit that subscribe button below if you haven't already It's gonna continue to help us grow the channel and make sure you get notified and we post both of our weekly reviews Throughout the rest of 2025 and if you're interested in purchasing this after the review Please check out that affiliate link in the description below So whether it is rack mounted or wall mounted just envision this let's say it were slapped over here on a wall boom same thing about the approximate height and It would be the approximate height where you would stud mount this of course at home They include the hardware for stud mounting. They do not include the hardware for rack mounting So I had to supply my own one inch bolts here brackets are made for one inch bolts in the middle Five eighth inch bolts on the top.

So again, whether you have a five eighth inch rack or a one inch rack It is compatible Technically also, I guess it's compatible with a non three by three rack as well So a lot of people who have let's say more of the budget friendly racks as long as you have a one inch hole or a five eighth inch hole Or you can do creative with some smaller bolts and whatever is the size of your rack This will fit on there. So that's actually really nice This right here is the fully locked and loaded or ready to go position I'll kind of start here and work our way down. We talked about the brackets right here They actually include a little mag pin as well We've actually seen this exact same one I'm pretty sure on the PRX build limitless halo arms that we just reviewed maybe in the last month or so on the channel this is a mag pin that locks the arm into a Strictly straight axes so that when you start to do belt squats It only moves in line with the rack if you take this off It actually allows for a more free swinging lateral It's not quite swinging like those halo arms lever arms are meant to be This is just meant to give you a little more side to side movement because it doesn't really work for going like really wide It's basically just supposed to give you a little more freedom Whether it's using it for belt squats some sort of one leg Unilateral type movements. I don't really do those to be quite honest So you might see some b-roll of me looking a little silly trying to show what you can do If you're interested can think of creative ways to do that great If not, I think it just functions great as a simple straight line belt squat I could see the potential use case for it being helpful where Someone has very limited space with wall or other machines and may need to come a little bit off axis But I would say the more off axis you go the kind of the weirder This pivot feels like it's really meant to be pretty linear So I wouldn't want to go somewhere like 45 degrees here.

You would definitely want to stay within this general End range here. It's probably what I would recommend just due to how this is designed There's no real like bearings or anything in there to make it really smooth lateral movements. Again, that's not what it's for It's belt squat. It goes on an upright or wall. It's meant to be heavy heavy duty load a ton of plates on here Got a kickstand and you just go to town this v here.

I mentioned it in the intro This v might look familiar to some of you. This is vendetta strength and athletics So this was designed in collaboration with britain from vendetta strength and athletics we saw this at prx's home gym con booth and We've actually reviewed a couple of vendetta products specifically the vendetta strength and athletic brackets for lever arms It's really cool to see that sort of larger company and smaller creator collaboration coming together to create a product like this Moving down. This is the weight horn. It is just a little bracket on a fixed swivel point This is just rotates, but it is fixed with you know a bolt and a lock washer So it goes up and it folds down for when you want to store it up on the rack The whole concept of this being called the profile is when you store it upright It is a very minimal profile. This is the biggest and best feature. This is the magnetic Neural handle kickstand. So this is how the majority of the magic happens I'm going to go ahead and put on the belt squat belt and by the way They include a spud ink belt squat belt not the old kind which I've owned for many years These corners dig the old ones dig so much into your legs and thighs But just know it's not the old spud ink belt squat belt. It is a newer version Which has this like stitched padding to protect you from those corners that I was mentioning This one's actually really good.

I haven't had to put a cover on it and haven't had any issues Despite loading it as much as this weight plate can potentially load. So that's nice They include a nice version and these little straps on the side of the belt squat Actually allow you to tighten it or loosen it depending on how far you want to be from the actual carabiner slash pivot point itself This kickstand as I mentioned it has the knurled handle. This is the exact same one again from their lever arms that we just reviewed Nice like barbell style knurling not a cheap feeling handle at all Which stops here in this fully upright position Can't go any further. There's a little like uhm w sort of stopper here on the top side. So when Goes like this it will not go any more straight But then it also won't damage any of the parts here or the uprights And on the back of this kickstand, you'll see two big magnets once you fold it all the way up The magnets will keep it Into place and now no matter how much you Shake this thing or wiggle The magnets are not coming off. So that is really cool and they made it just The perfect strength of magnets so where you know, even if you pull this a little bit doesn't come off But you pull just the right amount the magnets Come off they very purposefully designed this bracket so that you can get your fingers under here Although I think it's maybe just a little bit close like my middle finger joint is not making it under there But you know, it's not smashing your hands by any means So I actually tend to do like two hands up up, two hands down kind of deal. The actual bracket itself has curvature to go around this weight horn. And what you'll see when we show the upright storage, there's another little elongated slot here, which is how it actually clips to the upright storage mount. That is another reason they have this little curvature of the kickstand. And at the bottom of the kickstand, there's just some little padded feet.

The unlocking is one of the coolest things about this. Because anyone who's done belt squats knows either one of two things. If you don't have a kickstand, you are starting either getting down here, figuring how to clip, or trying to do some DIY hook a cable to something to hold this up. And it gets real awkward to try to belt squat. They've eliminated those, one by including the kickstand, two by this, like little just quick release notch. So because of the force you're exerting, you're always pulling up so that you literally just kind of loop the carabiner in here. They gave you a little hole if you want to like clip in more, but you don't have to by any means, which then super nice because all you do is just bend down, pick it up, kickstand up, and now you are doing your belt squats.

Just however you want to do them. And it's fantastic. And your legs are shaking.

You've done 43 fully maxed out on the weight horns. You flip kickstand down, get down, simply just lift that under the little lip and you're done. Mind blowing. It's so simple, but it works so well. I've used belt squats in the past. Usually there's some compromise with how sturdy it feels or whatever it is, but this, it feels like a solid machine, I would say. I recently reviewed the GMWD pendulum squat. That's like a $800 pendulum squat. That's actually really, really good for what it is.

I would actually recommend this at $550 over that for most people because it takes up way less space. And two, when you actually do the belt squats, you can do them one of two ways. You can do the belt squats, what I'll say is the traditional belt squat way. And really honestly, it just depends a little bit on your own, like biomechanics, what feels comfortable to you. So you can kind of like lean back and do the more like pendulum style where you're like really back and out and up and in. And it feels very similar to like a pendulum squat. If you wanted to get squat wedges or something in there, you can get all sorts of creative with it. But you can do the little more arched way, or you can do, I'll say like the linear way, you know, like if you have a cable drive or if you're using like a belt squat machine, that's vertical, so that you're just like a down and up, a down and up. So you can kind of do it whichever way you want in here.

I've done both. I actually started with like the pendulum type because typically I like pendulum squat machines just because I'm like kind of long and lanky. They always just seem to be nicer on my hips and my back and knees and everything. I've come to now like just the pretty vertical up and down and that little bit of arch it gives you feels fantastic for my function and how this feels. This has been absolutely fantastic for the price based on everything they give you versus other belt squat options.

I think this is pretty good. I know people are going to ask me, for example, about the fringe sport mammoth. Yes, the base price of the mammoth is cheaper, but once you add on all the things that make it essentially the equated upright storage, free swinging, weight horn, kickstand.

I think they're literally in the same like $50, $25 range. I'm actually going to be doing a review of that one next couple months. So stay tuned for that. Now, for the feedback about this thing, you can load a pretty heavy asterisk. So you can load this pretty heavy. You can load it with, I think, what did we calculate, Meg? We got 290 ish pounds on here, almost 300 pounds stacked.

It was pretty much at the top. My concern then is for people who want to load this heavy, there's nowhere else to load stuff because this folds. The whole concept of this thing is it needs to fold. So there can't be another weight horn permanently attached here. And if you had some sort of side mounted weight horns, then it's now making this a bigger profile, something on the side like this, five eighth inch bolt.

You just thread that on. And now you have a weight horn on the side. The problem is that you need to load it on both sides. So then you need to get two weight horns.

And then when, again, when you go to fold it, you're not going to want to take this off. My suggestion to PRX is to somehow offer for people who want to be able to add more weight if they made like a dual weight horn, kind of like a J cup where, you know, it latches on, but there would be like, you know, a weight horn on each side. So somehow if it could be on here and not mess with either the handle, or maybe you could remove the top horn or even choose to buy it without the top horn and just get like a dual weight horn adapter instead.

But the dual weight horn adapter needs to be able to be taken off in order to nicely store it because that's the thing that's enticing about this is you quickly put it up and you quickly put it down and you don't have to hassle with a ton of things. The weight plate's already here. The kickstand goes up. Just move this up to the top and you lock it in and it's done. Again, depending on if you have a six post rack or what your configuration is, if this is wall mounted, you never have to touch it.

You never have to take it off. And that is literally the point here. You know, we're talking like a six inch by six inch by like four and a half feet ish profile here. I have said this so many times, it will continue to say this space in home gyms is almost invaluable.

People can come up with money to pay for things, but people can't typically come up with space as easy. The last improvement, besides being able to add more weights somehow, this little elongated hole is meant to allow you to use this storage bracket and adjust it up or down to make this little detent pop pin fit there, depending on which rack you have. The instructions from the website show the plate horn installed in this hole, which is what we showed throughout the video.

Now I went back and actually moved it down a hole. It turns out when we install it on a metric rack, if you have this plate horn up one hole, it doesn't allow the plate horn bracket as it comes into the rack mounted bracket to fit nicely in some of the B roll here. You'll see when we had it mounted one hole higher, it basically was scraping metal on metal.

And hence why we got the paint damage here. Now we even tried moving this bracket up one hole to the next hole up the rack mounted bracket, but it basically missed the elongated hole completely. Just a PSA for those who have a similar metric rack, one inch rack, you might have to play around with the whole location of the weight horn. And maybe they could mention this in the assembly instructions. There is no issue in just moving it to the next one down. So if you do have a metric rack like I have here, this metric one inch rack, you will have to move the weight horn down one. If you have a PRX rack or something else, you can probably leave it in the location they tell you to.

Or the other way around this potentially is if they made the elongated hole a little bit longer, you could move this bracket up a hole and then have basically a couple different hole selections within a, you know, five to six inch range to choose from. So guys, that's it for today's review of the PRX profile belt squat. As always, if you have any questions or comments, please leave them down below.

I'll be happy to answer or at least try. Thanks for tuning into the Jungle Gym Reviews. We'll see you next time. Take it easy. Peace.