Designing Your Own Personal Gym

Have you grown tired of paying monthly gym dues? Are you in a situation where getting to the gym is just nor feasible? Do you live in an area where there are no gym available?

If any of these questions are true or you are looking to turn a room of your home into a great workout area that will help you and your family get into great shape, we are here to help.

Over the last several years we have helped out several families with what components are most important when designing your own gym. There are several factors that go into this;

1. How much space do you have to work with

2. What is your budget

3. What are you wanting the gym to provide for you

4. Is this a temporary or long term facility?

There are many factors beyond this as well but these 4 are the most important to start with. What we would like to do is go through the process of designing 2 different home gyms using the criteria above. We want to give you an example of how to do it for a very small budget as well as a more high end home facility. 

During the nearly 20 years I have spent in the fitness industry I have had the luxury of opening large chain Gyms such as Bally’s Total Fitness to the process of designing the most functional training facility in the Northwest, ADAPT Training. I am now in the process of building a training facility for the High School I work at. Along with my fellow trainers, we have been able to use hundreds of different strength and cardiovascular machines and we will give you the good and bad on some of the more popular ones in an effort to help you make your decisions. 

Read through the posts in this section before deciding on what to purchase for your own workout facility. It is easy to try and follow the model of a large gym and pay top dollar for the latest equipment. Also be careful about purchasing the all in one gym machines you may see on late night infomercials. 

We will walk you through the steps necessary to get the most for your money.