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The ideal gym would be located close to home or work, well equipped, clean, and manned by knowledgeable helpful staff. Our ideal gym would also not be overly crowded yet available to friends and family that we'd like to workout with. An ideal gym would be supportive of hard-core fitness, a la CrossFit. As long as we're dreaming it might also play only the music that we want to hear.
Many of us are blessed with gyms we love dearly. If that's your situation, great! For the rest of us our gyms are very different. Often the drive to the gym is 20-30 minutes coming and going, the music is worse than annoying, the staff are less than worthless, the place is packed with selectorized equipment for which we've no use and the few pieces of equipment thatyou want to use are in near constant use...
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9 Comments on “The Garage Gym”
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You can spend a ton of money on floor mats, but if you're on a budget, Costco sells puzzle mats that will do a decent job. I covered my basement gym with mats for under $80. They're not great, but if they get ruined they are cheap to replace.
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Exactly what I needed to get started.
Thanks, Mutha'
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Try tractor supply for horse stall matting. It's 3/4" thick rubber in sections that adds up to a 12 ny 12 mat. Hard to cut, but tough and relatively cheap
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Actually if you use a jig saw with a course blade it is easy to cut the stall mats
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I attempted to download and view this PDF but it is prompting me for a password. How do I open this document?
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Ron Wilhelm replied to comment from Anthony Winfield…
This should be fixed. Don't know why the PDF suddenly started asking for a password to open.
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I LOVED the how to get kicked out of your gym in ten days or less article! I work out at the South Park St YMCA in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. And my fellow Crossfitters and I do or have done everything on your list except for taking off our shirts and writing on the walls! We absolutely love our gym but I still can't wait until I can put together my own garage gym.
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I actually wrote all over my gym with a marker, no one has seen me so i'm still working out at the same gym
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I'm new to cross fit. Anyone have any suitable substitute exercises for workouts involving the rowing machine.
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