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Home Gym Setup

A home or garage gym planned from a measured space, a safe floor and a phased budget, equipped one sound decision at a time, kept in working order, and programmed around the kit and minutes you really have.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

Then open the Marketplace in the app, search for Home Gym Setup, and click Install. It goes into your own files, and works offline from then on.

Before you start: this plan is general information, not medical advice. Check with a doctor before starting a new training programme, especially if you have a health condition, are pregnant or are coming back from an injury, and stop if you feel pain, dizziness or chest discomfort.

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🏋️ Fitness & Sport

Home Gym Setup

Planning, equipping and programming a home or garage gym, from choosing racks and weights to fitting effective sessions into a small space.

  1. What the home gym is for, written in one page
  2. Measured floor plan of the training space
  3. Floor strength check before heavy kit goes upstairs
  4. Phased home gym budget and buy list
  5. House rules for noise, hours and shared space
  6. Rubber flooring and impact protection
  7. Garage damp, ventilation and temperature check
  8. Lighting, power and mirror placement
  9. Barbell set-up or adjustable dumbbells first
  10. Safety rules for training alone at home
  11. Weekly home training timetable
  12. Barbell and equipment care routine
  13. Monthly bolt, cable and band inspection
  14. Garage gym summer and winter set-up
  15. Ten-minute room reset after training
  16. Twelve-week programme built around your kit
  17. Second-hand equipment watch list
  18. Chalk, cleaner and spare parts stock
  19. Quarterly review of what earns its floor space
  20. Setting J-hooks and safety arms to your body
  21. Practising a safe bail from squat and bench
  22. Moving and loading plates without strain
  23. Assembling and anchoring a power rack
  24. Remote form checks from a coach
  25. Making light dumbbells feel heavy again
  26. Reading equipment specs before you buy
  27. Power rack, squat stands or folding wall rack
  28. Bar, bumpers or iron plates
  29. Choosing an adjustable bench
  30. Choosing a cardio machine for the house
  31. Cutting noise and vibration from heavy lifts
  32. Insulating and sealing the garage for year-round training
  33. Selling outgrown kit and upgrading well
  34. Equipment inventory for home insurance
  35. Delivery and install day
  36. First thirty days in the home gym
  37. A personal trainer's visit to set up the room
  38. Moving house with a home gym
  39. Buying in the seasonal equipment sales
  40. Full-body training in under four square metres
  41. A renter's home gym that leaves no trace
  42. Child-safe home gym for a family house
  43. One gym for two people at different strengths
  44. Home gym layout for training after sixty
  45. Twenty-minute home sessions for new parents
  46. Building a plywood and rubber lifting platform
  47. Garden gym building or converted outbuilding
  48. Ceiling-mounted rings and pull-up station
  49. Connected equipment and subscription audit
  50. Training paying clients in your home gym

Where it starts.

Each project arrives with its purpose, milestones and first tasks written out. Here is how the first three read.

What the home gym is for, written in one page

Most home gyms that end up as clothes racks were bought for a vague idea of getting fit rather than for a specific kind of training. Writing down what you will do in the room, how often and for how long decides almost every later choice, from ceiling height to whether you need a barbell at all. Ten minutes on this now saves buying a rowing machine for someone who really wanted to deadlift.

First tasks

  • Write the kind of training you want the room to support in two sentences
  • Note how many sessions a week you will realistically do at home
  • Ask everyone else in the house whether they plan to use it
  • List the three movements the space must allow without compromise

Measured floor plan of the training space

Equipment listings give footprints, but they never mention the swing of a barbell, the bar sleeves sticking out past a rack or the ceiling you hit on an overhead press. A floor plan with real measurements, including ceiling height, door widths and where the sockets are, tells you what fits before anything is ordered. It is also what you will send to a seller or installer when asking whether their kit will work.

First tasks

  • Measure the room's length, width and lowest ceiling point
  • Measure every doorway and stair turn the equipment must pass through
  • Sketch the room to scale with sockets, windows and radiators marked
  • Press a broom handle overhead where you plan to stand and note the clearance

Floor strength check before heavy kit goes upstairs

A concrete garage slab will take almost anything, but a suspended timber floor in a bedroom or loft was never designed for a loaded rack plus dropped weights. Before putting more than a few hundred kilos of kit on an upper floor, find out which way the joists run and whether someone qualified should look at it. Getting this wrong means cracked ceilings below at best.

First tasks

  • Find out whether the room sits on a slab or a suspended timber floor
  • Add up the weight of the planned rack, bar, plates and bench
  • Locate the joists with a stud finder and note which way they run
  • Book a structural engineer if the gym is going on an upper floor

Make it yours.

Install Home Gym Setup, then tell Aurum the date you're aiming for. It checks whether the plan fits the weeks you actually have.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

Blueprints are general information to help you organise your own work. They are not medical, financial, legal or other professional advice. See the Terms.