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Updated: December 22, 2022 By: Stacey L. Nash

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Gunnar Peterson x Garage Gym Reviews

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJ8cnTMrzv4Walking into Gunnar Peterson’s Beverly Hills gym, something immediately struck me. The place was stuffed, absolutely filled to the brim with every kind of training and recovery equipment imaginable.  Some people have a more minimalist style when setting up a gym, while others take a maximalist approach. Peterson is definitely the latter. 
I’d rather have all the gear and grow into it skill wise than not have the stuff and be growing and hit a dead end.  » Read more about: Gunnar Peterson x Garage Gym Reviews  »

Updated: July 22, 2022 By: Caroline Lubinsky, CF-L1

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A Visit With Jason Khalipa: Touring His Gym and a Heck of a Workout

I went all the way to Laguna Beach to have a flex-off with the man, the myth, the legend: Jason Khalipa.

Updated: July 22, 2022 By: Cooper Mitchell

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The 10 Best Budget Home Gym Setups I’ve Ever Seen

When building a home gym on a budget, determining what equipment to buy and where to put things can be difficult. So, to give you some inspiration, here are the 10 best budget home gym setups we’ve encountered.

Updated: August 24, 2022 By: Cooper Mitchell

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Ralph’s Insane Modern Barn Home Gym

Ralph and his dad have created something truly special. A modern barn designed specifically to be a home gym that is connected and matches the rest of their house. Not only is the gym great, but the people are even better. Ralph is Garage Gym Built.

Updated: August 9, 2022 By: Cooper Mitchell

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SWAT Officers Epic Powerlifting Garage Gym

Sergeant Cort is a strong guy with a big heart. Not only is his garage gym the envy of his neighborhood, but when he’s not putting up crazy numbers on the platform, he’s a member of SWAT busting in doors and serving his community on the local Police Force. Cort is no doubt, Garage Gym Built.

Updated: August 9, 2022 By: Cooper Mitchell

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Joe Rogan’s Epic Studio Gym, Training, and Nutrition (Plus Supplement Stack)

Joe Rogan, the stand-up comedian, and Host of The Joe Rogan Experience Podcast has one EPIC gym. Located in his podcast studio, Joe has utilized the top equipment manufacturers and technology to create a world-class facility. Today, we’re going to detail the tools Joe used to build his studio gym along with the training plan, nutrition, and supplements he uses to build his body and mind.

Updated: July 22, 2022 By: Cooper Mitchell

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5 University Weight Rooms That Will Blow Your Mind

More than ever, universities are spending big money on the training facilities used by their athletic programs. Today, we want to show off ten collegiate gyms that blew us away that feature equipment by Rogue Fitness, Sorinex, Power Lift, and others. These range from college football, college basketball, college hockey, and others.

Updated: July 22, 2022 By: Cooper Mitchell

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Jocko Willink’s Garage Gym & Training

Jocko Willink is someone who has really inspired me and continues to inspire through his podcast and content. One thing I’ve always wanted to see more of was his garage gym. Through following him on social media, I’ve tried to piece together what equipment he uses as well as his training style.

Updated: August 1, 2022 By: Cooper Mitchell

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World’s Strongest Man Brian Shaw’s Garage Gym

Brian Shaw is a 4-time World’s Strongest Man and out of all the gyms that Brian could train at, where does he train most? His garage gym. Here it is in all its glory!

Updated: October 13, 2022 By: Cooper Mitchell

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The Ultimate Lime Green Garage Gym Build

This is one EPIC Garage Gym. Every detail was thought of including having everything match. Enjoy the build!

Updated: August 1, 2022 By: Cooper Mitchell

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A Look at Mat Fraser’s Home Gym (World’s Fittest Man)

Mat Fraser is the World’s Fittest Man. He also has one sweet home gym setup in the basement of his parent’s house. For the size, it’s EPIC!

Updated: July 29, 2022 By: Cooper Mitchell

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10 Ridiculous Home Gym Setups

Thanks to our readers, we receive a lot of emails showcasing the gyms they’ve built based on our recommendations. Here are 10 absolutely ridiculous home gym setups that we’re all envious of.

Updated: September 6, 2022 By: Cooper Mitchell

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Garage Gym Ideas – Build a Home Gym Setup Like a Pro

So you want to build a functional fitness garage gym?

We will admit that there’s a lot that goes into putting together a garage gym that’s on par with hitting the gym in person – making the space in your gym, buying the gear and equipment, and then deciding how to set it all up.

Despite the effort, having a home garage gym is a great addition to your home and one you won’t regret. Having easy access to a workout any time of the day in a private space can make the time and expenses worth it.

If you’ve decided that the home garage gym is for you, then power to you!  Let’s cut straight to the chase and focus on the core, guiding principles of an effective home garage gym.

This guide will dive deeper into the main components your garage gym needs, specific equipment and gear, and other elements that can take it to the next level – ensuring you build your garage gym like a pro and impress everyone on your block and beyond.

• Equipment
• Flooring
• Optimum Floor Space
• Rig Selection
• Gear Leveraging
• Storage Space Optimization
• Lights & Music

DIY Garage Gym Tips – Making a Functional Fitness Home Gym

Like so many pop culture trends, the functional fitness garage gym movement can get too focused on vanity at times.

The popularity of garage gyms has grown, so much so that you now can find garage gym makeovers on home remodeling shows.

Right from the start, home remodeling puts an entirely different frame on the project.

There’s more focus on aesthetics than functionality.

Think of your garage gym as more like a church, than a cathedral.

Your purpose is to go in there and stay focused on a task, not to “ooh and aah” people.

Don’t worry about stained glass windows if you don’t have a pulpit, so-to-speak.

Your functional fitness garage gym has to work for you.

This bears repeating.

Your garage gym has to work for you. It has to work both in the literal and figurative sense.

It’s a high-functioning room in limited space, which immediately dictates your layout and design choices.

This is what we’re going to focus on here; the layout and design tenets of a high-quality, functional fitness garage gym.

Ignore the Hype for the Best Garage Gym Setup

A lot of garage gyms boast a big “wow” factor.

They feature a perfectly clean space, free of clutter, with an immaculate paint job, glowing with brand new, fancy, high-end gear.

Let’s face it. This is out of reach for the average garage gym enthusiast.

We’re limited by a whole host of factors like budget, time, space, and even our own personal goals.

Don’t ever forget that inmates get insanely ripped and strong in prison yards with equipment that is probably 50 years old.

So focus on your goals and what you need to get done, then use that to literally and figuratively, frame out your garage gym.

Once you have that well-conceptualized, run your decisions through these 7 design and layout principles.

7 Garage Gym Setup Ideas for Building a Home Gym on a Budget

Here are the seven main considerations for your garage gym that should guide all your design and layout decisions: flooring, optimum floor space, rig selection, gear leveraging, storage space optimization, equipment, lighting, and music. The budget your willing to spend on a home gym factor into your choices, but there are options are for everyone.

1. Equipment

What should I put in my garage gym?

The core of your garage gym should include: barbell, rack, bumper plates, a bench, kettlebell, dumbbells, and a weight plate tree or weight storage rack. How can you best save space? Adjustable dumbbells and adjustable kettlebells are the best choice to save floor space without sacrificing strength training options. Not lifting very heavy? There are innovative adjustable barbell and curl bar sets on the market with selectorized weights. Like functional strength training with sandbags? Look for workout sandbags that will not leak sand indoors. This gear profile covers all your basic, required movements and lifts. Of course, depending on your goals and available floor space, you may choose to include additional equipment. There are plenty of resources out there to help you with gear selection. Garage Gym Reviews is an excellent source.

Hyperwear MX Select Adjustable Dumbbells

2. Flooring

Your garage gym is like a body shop, except you’re the mechanic and you’re not working on a car. The same potential for messes, noise, injury and chaos exist. The best mechanics keep these to a minimum and that starts with what you’re standing on- flooring. Any kind of functional fitness garage gym worth its salt will include barbell work, and probably some Olympic lifting. You have to be able to dump the weight. That means weights crashing on the ground, which you’re going to need horse stall mats for. Three-quarter inch thick mats are the standard and that should work fine for most people. The mats will reduce wear and tear on your gear, soften unplanned landings or falls, and most importantly, decrease barbell reverb flowing into your home. How much do you need? That brings us to…

3. Optimum Floor Space

This is the #1 design and layout goal of your functional fitness garage gym. Every last thing you do, and every single decision you make, should be with the optimization of floor space in mind. You want to do everything in your power to max out your floor space. This could be dozens of things. Cleaning all the junk out of your garage, renting a storage pod for stuff, parking a car in the driveway, or whatever obstacle exists in your garage, standing between you and max floor space. Only you can figure that out. The 3 things that take up the most space in garage gyms are: rigs, equipment storage and specialty equipment. Try and keep those to a minimum. You can use Sketchup, which is a free and handy, 3D design tool, to help with your layout. Once you have this sorted out, then you can calculate how much flooring you’ll need.

4. Rig Selection

This will arguably be the centerpiece of your garage gym. Make your rig selection with great care. You can choose a wall mounted rack, a collapsible or retractable rack to save space in your garage gym, or a free standing rig like a power rack. Again, this is a highly subjective decision based on what? Yeah that’s right. Maximizing floor space and achieving your goals. It’s a fool’s errand to even begin to suggest what kind of rig you need, what brand, or anything, without knowing enough about your personal situation.

5. Gear Leveraging

Remember how specialty gear takes up a lot of space? That GHD might as well be another car in your garage gym. Maybe you don’t need it, and can convert a piece of equipment you already own into something similar. Find creative and innovative ways to put your existing equipment into double-duty.

6. Storage Space Optimization

Optimizing your storage space goes lockstep with optimizing floor space. The less you have on the floor, the more room you have to train. You want to maintain your functional fitness garage gym with discipline and a ruthlessness for cutting out clutter and random stuff that’s lying around. Use an “overhead bin” mentality. No one ever wants their bag, backpack or purse, under the seat in front of them, because it reduces your leg room and foot space. The same concept works for your garage gym. Try and get as much as you can into your “overhead bin” so you leave the most room to work in possible. Can you put barbells on a wall rack, instead of vertical, floor storage? Can you put a treadmill into a spare room in the house? Do you find yourself moving that weighted keg out of the way once a week? If so, find a better place for it, which probably means, getting rid of it altogether. That type of “get-in-the-way” gear quickly becomes a pain in the butt.

7. Lights, Music, Garage Gym Action

There are a few random things to consider, that are also dependent on you personal situation. What is your lighting like? Think about the body shop again. The best body shops are well lit, making it easier to work. If you’re functional fitness garage gym is lit like a castle basement, you may not be so motivated to spend time training in there. Where do you live and what’s the climate like? If you live somewhere with chilly winters, you’re going to need a heater. Or do you live somewhere with blazing hot summers? Maybe a garage door screen and fan are in order. Do you have a music setup? You know you’re going to want that.

A Budget Functional Fitness Garage Gym is within Reach

Consider a gradual build-out. Start with a simple home gym and expand over time. That way you will not invest in cheap fitness equipment that will not last or could even be unsafe. Shop around by searching for the best offers. There is a lot of good quality used fitness equipment on the market if you search. Check out the home gym group on Reddit for ideas.

If you have a garage gym, we’d love to hear from you. Please share with us all the insights, tips, and feedback you have, or better yet, a picture of your garage gym.

We want to hear from you, and who knows, you might end up in a future blog.

Thanks again for reading. Keep training hard, have a great day, and stay awesome!

Pros and cons of a home gym, the minimum set of equipment for it – WikiStroy

Pros and cons of a home gym, a minimum set of equipment for it
The RMNT website brought you inspiring ideas for home gyms, which over the past two years, due to the pandemic, have become a necessity rather than a luxury due to the pandemic. Let’s find out what minimum set you need to organize workouts at home, what is better and worse than a fitness club.
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The RMNT website brought you inspirational ideas for home gyms, which over the past two years, due to the pandemic, have become a necessity, not a luxury. Let’s find out what minimum set you need to organize workouts at home, what is better and worse than a fitness club.

Of course, ideally, a home gym should be a separate room with excellent ventilation and everything you need for training. But this is the prerogative of private houses and luxury apartments. You can go jogging in the morning, but not everyone is capable of such a feat. Therefore, owners often get by with a minimum of equipment that allows you to train and strengthen muscles at home.
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So, you are starting from scratch and are thinking about devoting a corner to training in a nursery, bedroom, or

set up a mini-gym on the balcony

. To get started, you will need quite a bit of equipment:

1. Good quality soft rug. There are for yoga, jumping, exercise. Think about what you will be doing at home. In any case, the rug can always be twisted and hidden.
2. Rope. Yes, this is not entertainment for children, but sports equipment, which is very useful to work with. Of course, you should think about the neighbors below and low ceilings, jumping will require a lot of space, but the pleasure and benefits for the muscles are undeniable. And you can simply store the rope in a desk drawer.
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3. Kettlebells and dumbbells. Favorite men’s sports equipment that allows you to build muscle, do a variety of exercises. Experts advise buying dumbbells, the weight of which can be adjusted. So all family members can work with them. Kettlebells and dumbbells take up a minimum of space and can be stored under the bed.
4. Bench for training, swinging the press, stretching and so on. There are folding models that are easy to remove and hide after training.
5. crossbar,

   pull-up bar

   . In an apartment, it can be arranged in a doorway, just on the wall. A very useful device for the upper body and arms.
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6. Expanders. They are inexpensive, take up little space, and physical activity involves very solid.

Portal Rmnt.ru wrote which flooring would be the perfect choice

for home gym

. If you just have a small set of sports equipment, it is quite possible to get by with a soft jumping mat – they are universal.

Now let’s find out what are the benefits of arranging a small gym at home instead of buying a subscription to a fitness club:
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1. There is no schedule, no need to waste time on the road, you can work out, for example, 10 minutes in the morning and the same amount in the evening.
2. You can turn on your favorite music without adjusting to others.
3. No one will be around, no need to think about how you look, trying to push up from the floor for the fifth time.
4. Investing in a home gym is more profitable. You will have to pay regularly for a subscription, but dumbbells and weights will last for many years and your children can get it.
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5. There is no need to be afraid that there are microbes around, people sweating and there is a risk of catching something while taking a shower after exercising in the gym.

But home gyms or sports corners also have disadvantages:

1. It’s very easy to get distracted. Households go back and forth, interfere, your favorite TV show has begun, the sofa in the living room beckons you to lie down. If you bought a subscription to a club, spent money, paid a coach, the incentive to practice regularly is much higher. There is a great risk that your dumbbells will continue to gather dust in the corner.
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2. Even a mini-gym requires space, the same horizontal bar can spoil the interior. There are many more opportunities for classes in a special hall.
3. Classes in the club are a kind of competition, someone can cheer you up, someone can criticize you. There are no such incentives at home, playing sports can seem boring.

It is not necessary to dedicate an entire room to exercise regularly at home. Spread a jumping mat in the center of your living room and do simple exercises with dumbbells, kettlebells, expanders. You can be inspired by videos with examples of such exercises to feel like a visitor to a fitness club.
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Creating a Home Gym – 1-800-sports.in

It was less than a year ago when I filmed the following video, which highlighted the importance of time. Remember, I emphasized the simple fact that real results take time. Labels are a myth. There is no fastest way to develop anything meaningful.

However, while such statements will never be needed in our rapidly changing world, I am grateful that there are readers who have taken the message to heart. I have heard from several people who appreciate the value of patience. They were able to see the deceit that exists in the industry. Many have even expressed a desire to start learning at home. They are looking to cancel their gym membership to save money and time. nine0003

Starting a home gym

Many people have written me a few questions, but they need to be answered before starting. The most frequently asked question from this crowd was about what it takes to set up a home gym. These people envision a list of tools and equipment that must be secured before they can begin.

Unfortunately, it doesn’t work that way. Results aren’t the only things that take time.

Creating a home gym also often takes time. nine0085 This doesn’t mean you can’t start with what you have. As I’ve said many times before, it’s entirely possible to succeed with little or nothing. Only Bodyweight Exercise Provides Countless Possibilities An empty room can literally serve as a fully functional gym.

Using myself as an example, I have been training consistently for over 20 years. More than half of this time was chained to a small garage or outdoors. Even after all these years of home schooling, I’m still in the business of making or buying equipment. It’s not that I don’t have what I need to train. It’s just a case where I’m looking for new and new challenges. It would be wrong to point to one tool as an absolute necessity. nine0003

Over the years I have trained with just about everything. I have worked with calisthenics, strange apparatus, free weights and more. There were periods when I focused almost exclusively on a particular modality. And at other times I mixed and matched them all together. What I use depends on what I’m trying to achieve at the moment. As is often the case, it depends.

No matter where you train, it’s important to understand that it’s an ongoing journey. Today there is no solution that can be solved indefinitely. All it really takes is the desire and desire to start. Once you are determined to improve, you will find a way. As has been mentioned many times before, equipment is not the deciding factor as to whether or not he succeeds. nine0003

One of the reasons I give so many low-tech examples is to eliminate the lack of equipment excuse. When you see other athletes thrive in poor countries, you are almost forced to realize the potential of a low-tech approach. If they can do it, then you can too. And I’m not saying this to discourage you from purchasing equipment. Be sure to add new tools to your arsenal over time. Just understand that such tools should be seen as options, not essentials. nine0003

Home Gym Ideas

As for some of my favorite home gym items, here’s an abbreviated list:

1. Pull-up Bar (Pull-in somewhere).
2. Heavy odd object (e.g. sandbag).
3. Punching bag.

Suspension trainer (easy and inexpensive to make):

1. Sledgehammer and tire.
2. Rope.
3. Furniture sliders.
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For those interested in lifting weights, the power rack is probably at the top of your list. The dumbbell handles are also excellent and don’t take up much space.

Most of the above items can be bought or made very reasonably. If you are new to the site, you can find many ideas for home equipment at the link below.

My channel also contains several hardware tutorials. As you will see, most of the home equipment does not require any kind of skill.