August 15, 2006
The Garage Gym, by Greg Glassman - Sept 02 CFJ
The Need
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...
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.
Exactly what I needed to get started.
Thanks, Mutha'
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
Actually if you use a jig saw with a course blade it is easy to cut the stall mats
