Category Archives: Garage Build-out

Kids, don’t try this at home.

Our build-out process went very smoothly. We did everything perfectly on the first try and didn’t make any mistakes. Operating out of a garage space is a piece of cake and it’s easy to accommodate everyone that shows up for a WOD because we have all the equipment we could ever want.
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16″ of Snow, No Problem, We Have Shovels

On an unseasonably warm day in February, Eric and I decided that March would be late enough in the winter season for us to open our garage facility without significant risk of weather issues. After all, Colorado was wrapping up a less than stellar winter with little snowfall. Oops.
Wednesday night a huge spring [...]

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Pull-up bar, Part 1 – Watch Your Head

Our initial plan was to construct our pull-up bar outside.  A large tree stump planted directly in the spot where we need to drop one of our posts delayed the project.  It’s still in the works, more on that in a future post.  In the meantime, Eric built a pull-up bar inside the garage.
Materials:
6′, 1″ [...]

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800 Pounds of Rubber

Unfortunately I’m not referring to bumpers, but stall mats, in the title of this post.  While bumpers stacked high across the back of our garage would provide a tremendous amount of Oly eye candy – matting our garage space came as a priority.
We got our mats from Stockyards Ranch Supply.  All 8 fit into the [...]

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199.5 Square Feet

We recently made the decision to convert our one car garage into a training facility.  With 199.5 square feet to work with we will have to utilize every square inch.  
Our first task was to clean out the garage.  This is what we started with:

Actually, this was after a few hours had gone by, but [...]

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