Garage Gym 411's Gym

About the Gym

When I moved in, my somewhat standard 2-Car Garage (with 100” ceiling) included: HVAC heat pump unit, electric water heater, and enough clearance to open the door (that enters the house), leaving 364 square feet of space to work with - at this point, I placed 14, 6'x4' laser cut, mats across this space (my SUV parks on several of these mats.) I recently managed to secure 2 fiberglass ladders tightly against the ceiling, so that the garage door clears them. However, once I park the SUV, Sportbike, a rolling shelf tower and a stack of corrugated hurricane shutters, this leaves me with ONLY 234 SQ FT of "USEABLE SPACE" remaining. Despite this, I’m able to have 11 commercial fitness machines, my own version of a Rogue Monster "Wall” and 2 benches. With a highly-optimized floor plan, I am able to access and use all the machines, open both driver side doors on the SUV, access my HVAC unit for servicing, as well as my attic stairs. My Rogue “Wall” was assembled with parts from Rogue's Monster Westside Bench, SML-1 Squat Rack, a pair of Rhino "feet," 2 pairs of Monster Cerakote 99" tall uprights, Monster LT-50 v1.0 w/48" lever arms (w/Vendetta 180° Adapters for 5/8" RG-ML 1.0 Lever Arms with 13 holes - not 9), and a Monster Crown Pull-up Bar bolted to a Monster Hip Thrust Bench (with its pad removed) placed across a pair of Monster Shrimp Trawlers. In Oct of 2025, I picked-up a used, Basement Brandon-designed, Rogue Monster Bench Prop to either lie across the pair of LT-50 lever arms (or the pair of Monster Shrimp Trawlers) to provide a "centered' pulley mount for pulldown-related exercises, if desired. The F&F Steel Quick Load Pulleys can be attached to Rogue Monster Shackles (above or below) to obtain 1:2 (doubled) ratio from a pair of cables coming from either the Keiser or Tuff Stuff Functional Trainers (as can be seen in the center of my "Wall" - refer to my Tuff Stuff PS-245 review for more details.) At present, only 2 benches remain in my gym - a Power-Lift Lever Action Bench (Model 40000C) - the O.G. "zero gap" and quite possibly the heaviest adjustable bench out there (I'm certain that Mrs. Wynie Gluck would absolutely hate it) and my other one is a Matrix Magnum Utility Bench (model MG-A87.)