I've just moved into an apartment with a built in gym.
Yay! I can save money on my gym membership
BUT! They dont have any barbell or squat rack. How will I ego deadlift now????
Wondering what dead loft alternatives I have on a cable machine?
Also willing to consider kettle bells or anything else I can buy / donate to the gym short of an entire barbell set and squat rack
If they have the two-column/gantry style cable machine and you’re willing to BYO bar, you could add removable cable attachment points to each end with common pipe and cable hardware.
For example, on each end of your bar, you could slide on a shaft collar like this
But replace the set screw with a shallow eyebolt like this
Then attach cables of lower-inside pulleys to the eyebolts at each end of your bar, and test.
It won’t replicate the dynamics of plates but should let you find the correct angle of resistance into the floor and maintain your form while training with cables.