We’ve recently done a full guide on garage gym flooring and the main motivation behind it was that lifting heavy weights and more specifically, dropping weights will damage your floor. Gyms are designed to handle this activity and abuse to the flooring whereas homes do not come with the same level of protection! Something that …
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Garage gyms are great. You have your own private facility with all of the equipment you personally want to use (or need) and best of all, you don’t need to wait in line to use any of it! For all of the great benefits of owning a garage gym, there are some downsides. No, we …
How to Keep Bugs Out of a Garage Gym (8 Effective Steps) Read More »
When first building a garage gym, most people are faced with a mountain of a task. We all want the best equipment and to create the best possible gym (replicating commercial gyms but more customized), but to convert a garage into a gym often requires time, money, and hard work. Some of the key tasks …
As garage gym owners, we do everything we can to keep our equipment in good condition. One of the main strategies we use when building a garage gym is modifying the environment to make it more suitable for training. This includes finding ways to keep a garage gym cool, simultaneously finding ways to heat a …
Will Weights Rust In Garage Gyms (and How to Prevent It) Read More »
Whether you are a home gym lifter, train in a Crossfit gym or train at an Olympic weightlifting facility, something that you’ll be familiar with is the dropping of weights. It’s usually considered bad etiquette to drop weights in a commercial gym but when training certain Olympic lifts (like the snatch or clean & jerk) …
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