Garage Gym Conversion during LOCKDOWN

so in this video i'm going to take you through my garage conversion into a bit of a gym as an elite athlete i really need a place to train and throughout lockdown i really struggled with getting a weights room or access to a gym so there's only one thing for it the garage has got to go [Music] hey youtube i'm dan greaves better known in the sporting world as discus dan i'm five-time british palumbic discus thrower and if you don't know what that is then watch this little clip [Music] thanks a lot for watching this video remember to subscribe and turn on the bell notification so you can watch all of my videos [Music] so this is the starting point of our garage conversion as you can see it is very messy lots of random items all over the shop so we need to tidy up everything and give it a good clean get rid of loads and loads of rubbish and junk so hopefully in a few weeks time we'll be taking this quite tired messy looking garage into a pretty modern home gym can't wait we've got lights um so the first order was really to replace the strip light and two 60 watt bulbs with three of these led bad boys um they're really functional they've got like four panels so you can angle all the panels um to shed light across all the garage and 15 000 lumens all i know is they're super bright they cast loads of light you can see everything and so for the next stage to paint the garage wall we need to see every nook and cranny because as we all know breeze block is an absolute sod to paint [Music] so the black wall is finished this is a second coat of masonry paint that we put on just a little tip and word of warning um when sealing your breezework walls in white primer and just remember that it is an absolute sod i was trying to get all of the nooks and crannies that are white um that you can see through the black i just bought a masonry paint roller a really heavy duty um roller just to get in all the nooks and crannies yeah the finish is wicked like love it looks so cool looks really professional like all the hours of painstakingly trying to paint in all the little gaps and nooks and crannies have really paid off well this is exciting here comes the equipment yeah [Music] and just like that we now have the kits from black box so i ordered all of the equipment from black box i went for the binary fold away rack adjustable utility sports bench 200 and i think 210 kilos worth of weight four weights holders that bolt onto the wall and a 20k olympic bar and flooring so this is the original garage door color and steels and woods around i guess modernizing the garage we can't really leave them like that so we've painted the garage in a black metal paint um which i think looks really effective wanted a bit more of a matte finish and the gloss still looks pretty cool modernizes it loads and then i've just spray painted the woods around around the garage just with a normal black spray paint and then use the metal black spray paint give it a really nice finish all the way through so when we've got two black garage doors um steels and wood surrounds it should just all look black to keep with the black walls so i painted the garage doors black they both look awesome and they look so cool i wanted a bit of a matte finish um not quite worked out that way but bit shy and unexpected but really really pleased um i was only gonna do one door um that's closest to the black wall where the gym equipment's gonna go um but it looks so good and it made the uh it made this one look absolutely rubbish so um i just decided to set to um do two black garage doors and then obviously the steels and all the wood surrounds has been painted black as well so just to finish it all off because it just looked really old and dated with the wood exposed and the steels so i found these old surround sound speakers just doing nothing in the garage that we didn't want in the house and just installed these to a little hi-fi and strap them to the wall above where the lifting rack is going to be um they just go into that hi-fi there and then we've put another speaker up here and yeah you've got to have music when you're left haven't you and they sound pretty sweet when cranked up [Music] so just before i laid the flooring um i laid the little strip um underneath the garage door there and just to stop any leaves and any um water coming in um and then i've just laid the um jim matim from blackbox um really pleased it looks wicked it looks um it's really got a really nice texture to it and it looks yeah it's really cool pretty easy to clean and washable um and i went for five meters by two meters the weights plates are up um oh don't they look cool a really simple um designed from black box you just use hammer bolts so the bolts that are in the um in the wall are really simple you just drill a i think it's a 10 mil drill bit drill i think 80 mil hole and then just hammer them in and just tighten them up with a wrench and they expand in the breeze block and so yeah really pleased with them um and they look so cool with weights on i've got a couple of 25s on there and a 10 and yeah they look really cool and the rack is finished isn't she a thing of beauty we went for the binary fold away rack from black box just because if we need the space in the garage you can fold it away like this or we can have it out like this [Music] and here it is fully extended absolutely love it it looks amazing um so simple to set up from being folded away just at the top there where the hinges are it's just a couple of clips to keep the arms locked out in place and then you just place the pull-up bar at the top with a couple of clips there to keep it there but then it looks amazing i can't wait to lift the net so so please of how it's all gone and i think it looks really effective with the plates and the bench but yeah the rack just looks amazing [Music] and we've finished our i'm i'm absolutely over the moon with the finish of the garage gym conversion it's it's taken many months and lots of hard work not many tears but lots of blood and sweat have gone into this and yeah you always have that um that image in your head of what it might look like when it's finished um and it's kind of exceeded my even my imagination um i just thought you know we'll get the wolves painted black and it'll look cool and we'll get the frame on and the weights on but yeah i i absolutely think it looks stunning and i'm so pleased with the finish i'm so pleased with the rack um it looks brilliant in black i did actually order white um but yeah i think black on black looks pretty sick with the walls i'm not gonna lie i was a little bit devious at the start um about getting a fold away rack i've always lifted in structures that have been bolted to the wall um or the floor so yeah for me um it's really sturdy it's super strong black box has done a brilliant job and it's really high quality as well and yeah i'm really really pleased with it i did lots and lots of research if you're thinking about converting the garage do lots of research i've watched lots of videos on youtube about other people's experiences and yeah took a lot of deliberation about which kit to use and functionality of the space i decided that one half the garage obviously is going to be our gym and the other half more functional because we've got two children um but yeah this side looks so cool yeah what an epic journey it's been it's been enjoyable um i've loved the challenge i think yeah we've gone from a quite unusable garage space um throughout lockdown and we've just had a few dumbbells and the kettlebells and had to kind of muster through um so now we are fully prepared to get gym sessions done if another fingers crossed it doesn't happen but if another lockdown occurs then we're we're ready and we can train hard there'll be some more videos from me i will be posting some workout videos from home as well and some how-to videos um on just how i did stuff in the garage gym um please remember to subscribe and hit the bell notification and give this post a like if you've liked the journey i've thoroughly enjoyed this whole journey converting a quite old and messy garage into a garage gym so just from me thanks a lot for watching

Channel: DiscusDan

Views: 13,112

Rating: 4.8222222 out of 5

Keywords: sport, fitness, gym, conversion, DIY, GARAGE, HEALTH, GYMNASIUM, WEIGHTS, LIFTING, HOWTO

Id: APh_3Uvm4zY

Length: 12min 32sec (752 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 18 2021