Home Gym Transplant Fitness Room Makeover: Part 1

The #1 Rule when designing a Home Gym Room for Fitness is to first CAREFULLY define your reasons “WHY” you’re creating it.

I’ve already done this of course – BUT, for beginners, or people seeking to get started on their health and fitness journey – this is the MOST IMPORTANT thing that must be answered first.

The cost of not having this answer first is that you spend way too much money on the wrong things. Which then means you have to either give-away, donate, return or sell the things you bought – and then YOU STILL HAVE TO buy the right things after that… **Costing you even more time and money**.

The critical key is to know what you need, based on “why”… Your goals… Your desired outcomes. And if you have a partner, or a full family then this also should be taken into consideration, so EVERYONE can benefit from a properly planned home-gym fitness room.

In other words; What are your GOALS, both short term and long term?

Once we determine the answers to those questions, THEN we can plan the Home Gym Layout and the Fitness Items that will become part of that space.

As I write this, it reminds me when I was invited to the Greenwich, CT “home” of Leona and Harry Helmsley in the mid-90’s… (photo below)

Leona wanted me to train Harry after he was released from physical therapy, following his stroke.

During my initial visit, she walked me through part of the 17,000 square foot estate (officially named, Dunnellen Hall), and showed me a few rooms, before coming to the ‘exercise room’… a dark, small, office-type of room with one of those old-school, 90% chrome multi-station, home-gym units crammed into it, with the customary tan pads, gray weight stacks, and a bunch of cables and pulleys… Ugh…

In one of the biggest mansions in the world (home went back on the market for almost $50 million in 2016) – and the “home gym” was an afterthought. Strange, but I get it…

That’s a slightly bizarre story I’ll come back to another day… There’s some more drama involved that holds some valuable lessons.

For now – here are my main areas of focus as I transplant my Home Gym and Fitness Room

1 – Flooring (need to still be able to train barefoot, even though it’s ‘the garage’)
2 – Lighting
3 – Ventilation (fans?) (especially cooling for hot weather)
4 – Screen for bugs when large garage door is open (will this work?)
5 – Sound/Music

Space allocation will be a consideration, because I still have to fit a 10 foot Stand-up Paddleboard, 2 bikes, and some other things, into the garage…

Ok – that’s is for now… Stay tuned for PART 2 coming soon…

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