Mdeam SR-01 Folding Squat Rack Specs: Height, Footprint and Hole Spacing

The Mdeam SR-01 Folding Squat Rack is a folding wall rack in the $150 to $200 price band. It is the lowest price at which a folding wall rack exists at all, using 60 mm square tube, which converts to the unusual 2.36 inch upright dimension in the table.

What are the Mdeam SR-01 Folding Squat Rack specifications?

Every figure below is the manufacturer's or retailer's published specification. Where a figure could not be verified against a published source it is omitted from the table rather than estimated, because a guessed dimension is worse than a missing one on a page you are using to decide whether something fits.

Not listed because we could not verify it from a published source: steel gauge, hardware size, hole spacing. Get those from the current spec sheet, and tell us through the contact page if the manufacturer publishes a figure we have missed.

What ceiling height does the Mdeam SR-01 Folding Squat Rack need?

Clear ceiling height is the distance from the finished floor to the lowest obstruction over the rack footprint, which in a basement is a duct run, a beam, a sprinkler head or a light fixture far more often than it is the ceiling itself. The rule is the rack height plus about 2 inches.

For this rack that is 89 inches, derived from the published 87 in height. That figure is our arithmetic on the manufacturer's number, not a manufacturer's number itself.

This rack does not clear a 7 foot basement, and no amount of careful assembly changes that. If your room is in that band, look at a squat stand in the 70 to 74 inch range instead, which is a different piece of equipment rather than a compromised version of this one. Run your own measurement through the ceiling height calculator before ordering, and see the rack height and clearance chart for how the bands compare.

There is a second clearance almost nobody plans for: you have to stand the frame up during assembly. Tilting a 87 inch structure into place in a 89 inch room does not work, and a heavy gauge frame is far harder to raise than a light one. If your headroom is within about 2 inches of the rack height, build it lying down and raise it with a second person.

How much floor space does the Mdeam SR-01 Folding Squat Rack need?

The barbell sets the floor space, not the rack. A 7 foot Olympic bar is 86.6 inches long, so any barbell lift needs at least 108 inches, which is 9 feet, of clear width no matter how compact the frame is. That is true of every rack on this site and it is the reason a very narrow rack rarely solves a narrow room.

The published footprint here is 44 by 25 inches, about 7.6 square feet of floor. Add roughly 24 inches of walk-around on the two sides you load plates from and the practical zone is closer to 7.7 by 4.1 feet, which is derived rather than published. The gym space planner will fit it against your actual room dimensions.

What attachments fit the Mdeam SR-01 Folding Squat Rack?

Three numbers decide attachment compatibility: the upright tube size, the hole diameter and the hole spacing. An attachment made for 2 by 3 inch uprights on 5/8 inch hardware will not fit 3 by 3 inch uprights on 1 inch hardware, and spotter arms that almost fit are spotter arms that do not fit.

This rack uses 2.36 x 2.36 in uprights. A 60 mm metric upright with no published hole dimensions means imperial accessories cannot be assumed to fit at all. Measure first. Compatibility across brands is a convention rather than a guarantee. Manufacturers revise dimensions between production runs without renaming a model, so the only safe check is to measure your own uprights: outside tube dimensions, hole diameter, and hole centre to centre spacing. The hole spacing and gauge chart covers what each measurement means.

The one accessory worth buying with any rack used alone is a set of spotter arms , and the compatibility check above is exactly why: confirm the tube size and whether the holes are 5/8 inch or 1 inch before ordering. Where anchoring is called for, half inch wedge anchors are the common slab specification.

What should you know before buying the Mdeam SR-01 Folding Squat Rack?

• The listing gives folded size only as 44 by 87 in, so a folded depth is not published and is omitted here.
• The 101.9 lb figure is package weight rather than an assembled weight.
• The 2.36 in upright is 60 mm. Accessories built for 2 in or 2.5 in uprights will not fit.

How does the Mdeam SR-01 Folding Squat Rack compare with similar racks?

Compared here against other folding wall racks in our data, on the four figures that actually decide a purchase: how tall it is, what the uprights are, how the holes are spaced, and what the manufacturer rates it to. A blank cell means we could not verify that figure, not that the rack lacks the feature.

Who is the Mdeam SR-01 Folding Squat Rack for?

A single bay garage on the tightest possible folding rack budget.

At this price the rack is almost incidental. What you are buying is the ability to have a squat station in a bay that also holds a car, and that capability is worth more than the difference between this and a rack costing three times as much. The published 1,000 lb capacity is a manufacturer figure and the rack itself weighs 102 lb, so anchor it into real framing and keep the loads honest.

Where to go next

• All rack and rig specs, with a master comparison table
• Best power racks, split into beginner, intermediate and expert picks
• How to choose a power rack, the decision in order
• Complete builds by budget, if the rack is one line of a bigger list
• Hole spacing and gauge chart, for attachment compatibility
• Best folding squat racks