This guide outlines the five key factors to consider when you set up a garage gym, to ensure you get the most from it.
Focusing on your health and fitness can get difficult especially when you are juggling a ton of responsibilities such as work, study, and family commitments. While an ideal fitness routine should include at least an hour spent in the gym, many individuals are unable to spare the time required to commute to and from the gym in their daily lives. Hence, if you can afford to do so, you should consider setting up a gym in your garage.
Fitness freaks would relate to the need to be in the vicinity of a gym at all times, and setting up a gym in your garage is the perfect solution to ensuring your fitness needs and commitment. Not only would a garage gym help you let go of the hefty memberships, but the investment you make in your home gym will give you all the more workout motivation regularly.
5 factors for garage gym setup
Hence, below are five ideas that will help you create a garage gym:
Learn how to maintain a multi-purpose space
Setting up a gym in your home requires you to work with a multi-purpose space as your garage probably houses your DIY tools, maintenance equipment, vehicles, and bikes. The key to running a multi-purpose garage is to learn how to manage your garage gym equipment around other stored items in the garage.
Hang your bikes on the wall to maximize space, park your vehicles around the gym equipment to limit proximity, and store all tools and equipment in dedicated boxes that are labeled for easy access.
Only include equipment that you use
While creating your gym, you tend to go a tad bit overboard and include all possible sorts of gym equipment that your garage has space for. However, it is essential that you only include equipment in your home car garage that you regularly use and have a habit of using in a regular gym.
Take note that if you do not use a piece of equipment in a regular gym, you are likely to let it rust away in your home gym too. If you do yoga, dedicate a space to your yoga mats. If you lift weights, dedicate a space to weight lifting. If you are used to running on a treadmill, dedicate an area to your treadmill and running space.
Try to mimic a conventional gym
While you may not be able to fully mimic a conventional gym, you should try to create a similar environment that motivates you to work out in your garage gym. Try to install speakers to create a music system and maintain workout playlists that you can play on loop while working out.
Feature a water dispenser, protein shake station, and towel racks, and also install a shower station if your garage space allows you to. You can also use different colored flooring to separate different areas of your garage from your gym area.
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Focus on flooring
The flooring of a typical gym is very different from that of a garage. A garage floor is designed while taking into account vehicles and tire comfort whereas a gym typically has flooring that is anti-slippage and shock-absorbent such as rubber flooring.
Hence, while setting up a gym in your garage, be sure to change the flooring for your exercise area to rubber flooring. The change in flooring and breakage in color patterns will serve as good contrast and help you differentiate between your garage and gym areas efficiently. The gym flooring should be shock-absorbent, shock-proof, anti-slip, and cushioning in case of mishaps, minor accidents, or falls.
Focus on noise cancellation
When you set up a gym in your garage, you’re likely to disturb your neighbors from the increase in noise and irritate them to a point where they have to ring your bell and ask you to stop. When you lift weights combined with heavy music playing in your garage, you are likely to cause an uproar in your neighbors which will be especially difficult if you choose to workout during later hours of the night or early morning.
Hence, either try to install sliding doors in your garage that are noise-canceling and limit the amount of noise outside your garage or make use of installations in your garage walls that will help transform regular walls into noise-absorbent ones.
Conclusion
Creating a home gym will make your life at least 10 times easier if you are dedicated to maintaining your health and fitness. By employing the above-mentioned tips, you will be able to set up your gym at minimal cost with efficiency and ease.
While you cannot fully copy a conventional gym and mimic it in your garage, you can set up a garage that screams convenience for yourself and your health routine. Your daily commitments shouldn’t come in between your fitness routine and hence a home gym is necessary.
