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Home Gym Set-Up and Layout In Garage with Home Gym Designer Dom Gennusa

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Home Gym Design: Part 1 Show Notes:

These are just a few of the points & questions we explore in this open and candid conversation:

1 – Main areas of importance when using garage space as the home gym and fitness training area.

2 – The importance of non-toxic, naturally produced and low/no VOC materials in your home gym design.

3 – How to make the most out of any type of space in your home or office.

4 – Problems and issues encountered when people buy a mass market home gym machine.

5 – How to get in touch with Domenick, especially if you’re in the Westchester, NY area or the Greenwich, CT area.

6 – Preview of whats to come in the next home gym design and set-up updates and episodes. PLUS a whole lot more…

Here’s the Home Gym Design and Set-up in Garage Preview Photo we mention during the show:

We also talk about:

– Ways to make the home gym and fitness area more inviting and likely to be “used”.
– Easy ways to improve the look and feel of the garage space as your home gym (same ideas can be used in other rooms as well)
– Lighting ideas, flooring options, ventilation enhancement (fans VS portable AC units)
– and more…

Some of Links We Mention for Essential Home Gym Set-up Items

– 100% Natural Eco-friendly Sisal Area Rug
– Synthetic Sisal Rug made from Polypropolene
– LED String Lights for Extra Ambiance on Wall/Ceiling Border

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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)

Pre-plan your home gym and fitness room — You Don’t Need Too Much Space for a Great Home Gym Room

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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