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PRX Performance / Cable & Functional Trainers

PRX Profile Lat Pulldown Attachment

An extended high-pulley arm that pushes the cable 8 inches off the rack and buys 12 inches of extra travel — the fix for pulldowns done with your knees in the upright.

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Specs

Overall dimensions (HxWxD)17.25 x 5.5 x 20.25 in
Weight with mag pins13 lb
Weight capacity250 lb
Cable offset8 in farther from the rack
Additional cable travelUp to 12 in
CompatibilityPRX Profile functional trainers, 3 x 3 in uprights, 5/8 in holes
Pulley wheelsAluminium with bearings
PlasticsUHMW
Metal thickness7 gauge
FinishBlack powder coat
StorageIncluded

These figures are copied from PRX Performance’s own published specs and were last checked on 2026-08-31. Manufacturers revise products without notice, and variants differ. Confirm anything your decision depends on with PRX Performance before you buy.

Choose this one if

  • You do lat pulldowns on a rack-mounted trainer and keep fouling the upright
  • You want more cable travel without a taller rack
  • You already own a PRX Profile trainer and want to fix its worst ergonomic flaw

The detail

Rack-mounted functional trainers have one consistent problem: the cable comes down flush against the upright, so anything you pull from overhead puts your knees, the bench, or your head where the rack already is. You end up sitting too far forward and pulling on a diagonal, which is not the movement.

This attachment moves the cable 8 inches away from the rack, which is roughly the difference between fighting for position and not thinking about it. The second number matters as much: up to 12 inches of additional cable travel from a compatible Profile trainer. Travel is what limits a pulldown at the top and a triceps extension at the bottom, and on a rack-mounted stack you usually run out of cable before you run out of range.

The 250 lb capacity is the number to check against your stack. That is comfortably above what most people pull down, and comfortably below what a plate-loaded trainer can be loaded to — if you are stacking plates rather than pulling a stack, do the arithmetic first.

Bearing-equipped aluminium pulleys and UHMW plastics are the right materials here; the pulley is the part that goes gritty and starts singing, and a bushing pulley on a cantilevered arm would announce itself. At 13 lb with the mag pins it is light enough to move on and off without a second person.

Compatibility is narrow and specific: PRX Profile functional trainers, 3x3 inch uprights, 5/8 inch holes. It is not a universal lat attachment, and it will not bolt to a Bells of Steel cable tower or any 2x3 rack.