Titan Fitness Selectorized Wall and Rack Mounted Pulley Tower Review

This is Titan Fitness' Selectorized Wall and Rack Mounted Cable Pulley Tower. It's a dual cable system that features a 200 pound weight stack, the ability to bolt to a wall or pretty much any existing power rack system, two height versions for taller or shorter spaces, and it has the ability to quickly switch from a 2 to 1 to a 1 to 1 cable ratio when you connect the two cables together. But there are some limitations about using a single stack cable machine and some quirks about this one, so let's check it out.

Hey guys, this is Michael with the Jungle Gym Reviews. Today we're reviewing the Titan Fitness' Selectorized Wall and or Rack Mounted Cable Pulley Tower. This is a compact cable option for those people looking to add their existing rack and or not existing if they only have a wall mounted system.

In my mind though, this system is really only made to be wall mounted because if you do have a rack and a cable system, you probably have another way to integrate the weight stack into your rack, which we'll talk about here in a second. But before I get into the video, if you could quickly hit that subscribe button below if you haven't already. It's going to continue to help us grow the channel and make sure you get notified when we post two weekly review videos throughout the west of 2025.

If you're interested in purchasing this after the review, please check out that affiliate link in the description below. Alright, so as I mounted again, it is wall or rack mounted. You'll actually see the wall. I don't have it wall mounted, but you can see from the back here, this bracket is the technically the rack mounted bracket, but you can also use it for wall mounting as well. So put that into any stud and now you have a cable system that you otherwise didn't have and again in a very compact profile.

It's about I would say maybe like two feet by three, three and a half feet as far as like a footprint. They offer two different options for this as far as how you want to load it. This is the 200 pound weight stack select rise version. They offer also a plate loaded version, which I have seen so many people make use of because it's the cheapest plate loaded cable column, at least that I'm aware of from like a major brand. I believe it's about $275 and they do have two different heights. I believe the plate loaded one comes in an 84 and an 80.

This one comes in an 89 and an 82 and a half inch version. So that's what's shown here. So plate loaded or select rise the price for the select rise is about $1000 depending if you get it on sale. Titan always has different kinds of sales going on. So it's around depending on the height 11 to 1250 I believe pre sale somewhere on sale around $1000. I don't know that I specifically recommend the select rise version because $1000 is quite a bit of money. And the performance of this, even though the packaging and in theory the features and how it looks and the pulleys and all that look great. There are some specific things about this that make it perform in my opinion, not up to that $1000 price tag.

Again, I would probably recommend the plate loaded version for people just because it's $275. You can get two of them side by side or put them far away and have a sweet cable crossover. As with plate loaded versions though, there is a noticeable difference in quality of the cables. Usually that's due to everything from the cables themselves to the pulleys they use to the guide rods to the actual trolley system that slides up and down the guide rods.

Now this is selectorized. So you'll see it's very standard as far as weight plates with little like plastic or nylon insert in the weight plates that slide up and down the guide rods. So that's pretty standard as far as how weight plate systems work. But you can feel, especially at lower weights, noticeable friction in this, which makes it feel like a plate loaded system. Now I've owned a Titan Fitness plate loaded lat pull down. I've owned their plate loaded vertical leg press. I've owned a ton of other brand plate loaded options and you can always feel the cheaper plate loaded definitely by the smoothness of things with the cables and or like something like that. So it's always sliding sliding on the guide rods usually because it's just some little plastic insert or something. So it just always feels a step down in quality. Now this since it costs a thousand dollars and has again their new bright red pulleys and all that stuff looks like it'd be great, right?

Well, kind of not really. It definitely feels exactly the same as what I would say a plate loaded machine does, which basically means that there's a lot of friction, especially on the eccentric way back. So if I go to the lowest weight here, which is 10 pounds. Now each handle of this is a two to one ratio. So that 10 pounds is actually getting cut in half. And so this effective weight I'm getting is five pounds.

Well, because it's five pounds really just kind of highlights the cable travel. You should be you'll probably be able to see this on camera. You can probably see it feel it. It just it does not feel good. It's it's not smooth. There's a lot of friction on the way out and even more on the way in and that has to do again with a variety of factors. So when you kind of actually this is a probably pretty perfect angle, as you can see here, there's a lot of cable routing happening. So you have this really thick cable, which honestly is probably overkill for this and part of the reason actually contributing to the friction here. You have the super thick cable going up the first pulley around a sharp curve up again around a sharp curve up and down up and down. And you're creating a lot of bends and friction. And when you have a cable this thick and when you potentially have pulleys that aren't the smoothest and there's a handful of things that add on to this overall like friction feel. And so then you feel it, you see it, and it just doesn't feel good.

You can hear it. The weight stack floats on the way down, floats on the way up. Now the good news, I guess, is when you start to go to heavier weights, you definitely don't notice it as much and it feels a little bit better. So 50 pounds on this feels significantly better than five pounds because the weights on the back is just overpowering any of that friction feel. And when you move the trolley to the bottom and do something like let's say like curls, for example, because you're eliminating one of the pulleys from the friction kind of thing. And then there's the contribution, which is going to be this bottom one because it's not getting rounded around there.

And then this feels, you know, slightly as better as well. So the reason I say all this, I know it's kind of a lot of information, but I want to be clear that there are limitations to this machine and this style of machines in general. They're always made from cheaper materials. This here is a two by two upright. It has the holes strictly for the little trolley here, which start at number one, go all the way to number 20 height. In reality, that's about 11 inches or a foot at the lowest height here and about 70 inches at the highest height here, as far as like where the cable is actually coming out in the middle of these pulleys.

So that's your option there. As far as like capability and the actual height of it and packaging, it's completely fine. As you'll see, if you wanna do things like lap pull downs, you have to get all the way to the ground just because you have long arms like me. Otherwise, you are pretty much hitting the, you know, the cable stop. So you can do lap pull downs for sure. I've seen some companies advertise you doing this on a bench.

Unless you get the taller version, there's absolutely no way you're gonna be doing some sort of pulling movement. Now, the cool thing about this, I will say the good thing about these sort of units is they pack a lot of punch as far as functionality because again, two to one cable ratio per individual side, you can then connect them together either directly via the carabiners or in this case, they supply a little connector. You connect these two together. And now you've made a two to one ratio on each individual pulley system combined together to make a one to one ratio, which now that you have a 200 pound weight stack allows you to do 200 pound lap pull downs, 200 pound low rows, which is typically, which is the industry standard as far as like a normal weight stack, you know, the big boy weight stacks that go on three by three racks or even like a lap pull down system. So this is, you know, completely adequate as far as overall max weight capability. And hypothetically, you could add on more weight over time with like a weight pin adder.

I've usually told people to get like a bare steel version, a ton of companies make them something you could add in there, stick into the weight plates and then add on more additional weight, but 200 pounds and a one to one ratio is plenty enough for most people, especially when you're trying to get this more, let's say small packaged, I would say light duty cable system rather than like a full heavy three by three rack, you know, all that stuff. So as far as capability goes, it's fine. My issue, my gripe is with the actual quality and materials. The build quality itself is fine. It's more of just like the actual, everything combined together.

Like in theory, the cables are fine, the uprights, the plates, everything is like fine on their own, but together it just does not feel like a very cohesive product that just cost $1,000. A couple of other things I wanna mention, when you're talking about one to one cable ratios, using this for something like lap pull downs, one of the problems is when you're doing heavy lap pull downs and you get closer to 200 pounds, depending on how much you weigh, you will literally lift yourself up off the ground with no way to hold yourself down. So for example, if I put that at 200 pounds, I will certainly not be able to do this without my legs supported, but if I get down here and wanna do 200 pounds, start pulling, I'm pulling myself off the ground. So what you need is some sort of like leg roller or leg holder attachment. The problem, Titan does not offer any attachments natively.

So that's a bummer. Aftermarket attachments can be hard to come by for this like center, I think it's maybe like a half inch hole slot. So then you have to be like, okay, is that gonna fit this two by two rack? So then that's where I would say, okay, if you're actually interested in doing heavy lap pull downs, particularly, you wanna find a company, or I would suggest finding a company that makes their own attachments for their own racks. That's where I've seen things like Bell's of Steel, they have a very similar version to this that might cost the littlest bit more instead of a two by two upright here in the front. They're using like a 2.3 by 2.3, but it has offset holes like this. So then you can actually put something that has five eighth inch holes on the front, on the back, and kind of build it out to what you need. Bell's of Steel also offers like attachments for theirs, which then a lot makes it a lot more functional than just a cable stack.

So again, when you're paying that $1,000 price, I want to see personally, I would wanna see a little bit more. Now, the other suggestion I would have for Titan, and I think it's something they've been working on, again, if your goal is to rack mount this, and it can be mounted to their T3 series, which is their two by three, it can be mounted to their X3 series, which is their three by three, five eighth inch, or their Titan Fitness Titan series, which is one of my favorite uprights and racks, and you'll see that all in my rack room, the other studio, go check out some of my other videos, huge supporter of the Titan series racks. This will mount to any of them. It does not include hardware, which is not a big deal. I have plenty of extra bolts and stuff laying around. But the problem is when I have a rack, and I have a footprint that's already existing, whether it's four by six, something like this, the last thing I want to do is add on another three feet by two foot contraption in order to do cable movements on. So Titan does not offer a weight stack built in, sorry for the mess here, but like this GITRX Tornado, for example, 220, 210, 200 pound weight stack already built in.

It's are you can just mount it vertically into your rack, cable exits, great. Titan is the only major manufacturer that I'm aware of, besides rep, besides bells of steel, rogue, et cetera, that do not make a weight stack that you can drop into one of those existing racks. So having this as the only option for adding to your rack if you have a Titan rack is also a little underwhelming for me. Again, and I have a personal grievance with that because I have so many Titan products, and there's no weight stack. There's not a plate loaded functional trainer option dropping for the rack. This is it, this is all you get. So the summarize, this is completely capable, works really well, as far as functionality, the quality of it for $1,000 is not up to par in my book. I've used some of their other cable products like their new select rise leg extension leg crow machine, lottery smooth, absolutely fantastic machine, probably my favorite leg extension leg crow machine that I've pretty much ever used in existence, period.

Doesn't matter in a commercial gym, home gym, anything. Fantastic. This thing, in my opinion, just misses the mark, the $1,000 version, if you are interested in this, I do recommend the plate loaded version, which is much, much, much cheaper, a quarter of the price. Again, it'll probably have the same sort of design flaws, and functionality or limitations, but when you're paying $275, much easier to stomach than when you're paying $1,000. If you're looking for something just like this, and you're not sure if you wanna add it to a rack or wall, the other one I would possibly recommend is the GitRX. I think it's the RX 2000 single stack cable tower. Pretty much is this exact same thing, 200 pounds, but the weight stack is oriented 90 degrees, shifted in line with the uprights, and it has a shroud, and it has a built-in lower-row foot plate, so it's narrower, it takes up more less space, but overall looks the same, even if it had the same sort of not great cable feel and some of the limitations here, that one is the same price, and it looks better, and they offer other attachments like a leg holder to hold you in. So I'd probably recommend something like that. There's a lot of things to consider when buying a single stack cable column, whether it's adding to a wall or adding to an existing cable system, but hopefully that gives you enough information to take a look at this and some other options and pick the best one for you. So guys, that's it for this review on the Titan Fitness single stack, selecturized, wall-mounted, or rack-mounted cable tower. As always, if you have any questions or comments, please leave them down below.

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