Home Gym Organization: Maximize Space, Minimize Headache

Learn the BEST home gym organization to maximize space, minimize headache, and create the best home gym EVER.
Matt walks you through his home gym, including his platform, rack, plate and equipment storage. He discusses different options based on your available space.
Why Home Gym Organization Matters
Have a place for everything. Put everything in its place.
A well-organized gym is a gym ready for your use. You don't have to search for your equipment.
Clutter can create risk of injury. Lots of equipment lying on the ground presents a risk for you to trip over.
Like any other part of your house, you want to be proud of your home gym. You spend a lot of time and put much sweat equity into it. Have a gym that's clean, organized, and ready to use (and show off) at any time.
Home gym organization matters.
Platform & Power Rack
If you have the space and can afford it, your home gym should have a platform and power rack.
These together offer stability and durability. The rack prevents damage to the floor of your home or garage.
Matt's platform is 8' x 12'. That's bigger than most platforms. This, paired with his RML-6 power rack, allows him and his wife to lift simultaneously.
A typical platform is 8' x 8', and with foldable racks you can probably have one as small as 4' x 8'.
Power Rack Equipment Storage
The platform and rack serve as the centerpiece of your home gym organization. Around it, you build your gym.
Matt's rack allows him to store his plates and change plates on the 3rd set of uprights as well as hang chains and bands.
He keeps his bench and box on his platform within the rack. If he needs to move it for lifting, and he quickly move it out of the way.
He also uses the Rogue monolift attachment, which remains on his rack.
Wall Equipment Storage for Your Home Gym
Matt uses his walls to store much of his equipment. Hooks for storing bands and belts save tons of space.
Rogue and other manufacturers make wall-mounted storage for accessories, like the Dip Matador, so it can neatly sit on the wall.
Matt stores his Dominion belts on these hooks.
Floor Storage for Your Garage Gym
Some equipment needs to lie on the floor, but there are better and worse methods (worse being dump it randomly on the floor) for home gym organization.
Barbells can be stored on the wall (vertically or horizontally) or in a heavy-duty barbell holder.
Dumbbells too, if you have set of dumbbells, rest best on racks.
Adjustable dumbbells save lots of space, and Matt's Powerblock 90 lbs dumbbells come with a stand.
A place to hold chalk that doesn't require you to bend over provides convenience.
Shelves with baskets can provide a good space for knick knacks such as straps, wraps, ammonia, and more. No need to go to a fitness store to purchase this easier. You can buy yours at just about any place online or in-person.
Matt stores his MicroGainz fractional plates in boxes on his shelves.
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0:00 Why Gym Organization Matters
0:49 Platform & 2 Lifters Lifting
1:38 Rack & Its Features (Storage)
3:52 Rack & Platform Size Options
5:12 Accessory Equipment Storage --------------
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[@HumanLikeMan]

Matt, use the largest room in the house, usually the master bedroom. The smaller bedrooms in the house can be used for sleeping.

[@BarbellLogic]

Lol...Matt loves lifting, but not that much.

[@dangoldstein152]

If it were me, I'd wall mount those barbells and open up that corner for easier plate access. You'd just line that corner of the room with the bars and eliminate that 9-bar box of metal on the floor. Then you don't have to navigate through the jungle of bars to grab the one you want. Instead, just pluck what you want right off the wall.

[@BarbellLogic]

Thanks for sharing!

[@ExpeditionaryRanger]

My wife and I are making it work with a RML-490 and 8'x8' platform. What a huge time saver to be able to everything simultaneously. Having a FB-5000 and AB-4100 is the gear, as both fit on the platform simultaneously. Having four j-cups (two inside, squat and BP position and two outside for same) makes life easy also. The only catch is deadlifting inside... have to stand on a piece of stall mat inside and have two piece outside, to ensure I don't smack my barbell collars off the lower cross members... if Rogue had made them 1/2" lower life would be perfect lol.

[@BarbellLogic]

Thanks for sharing. Sounds like a solid setup!

[@user-fl5lr1nm5v]

Great set up!

[@RonSwansonIsMyGod]

For those really pressed for space I got Rogue's power pin (the one with the T handle, not the ring). I'm using that (with a floor mat) and adjustable dumbbells in a third floor apartment, and in a 10 by 10 room with a queen sized bed in it! I can do a quasi-deadlift with that thing. I found 45s thin enough that I should be able to hang about 8 or maybe 9 45s off that thing, approx. 400 pounds plus or minus. I also got adjustable dumbbells to go with it. For those I just stick with hypertrophy rep ranges so the poundages don't get out of control too fast. Interesting thing about the Rogue power pin is, all that weight hanging so stiffly down your center of gravity like that, it feels a good 30 to 50 pounds heavier than a barbell deadlift with the same weight. Plus you get none of the whip from the ends like you would on some of the longer deadlift bars. An interesting piece of gear...

[@BarbellLogic]

Thanks for sharing.

[@aveearvind7854]

Beautiful home gym!!

[@BarbellLogic]

Thanks!

[@jasonmeyer287]

Love your setup

[@BarbellLogic]

thanks

[@markhalstead2386]

I have the Rogue belt and band wall hanger. I also have Wall Control to hang all my cable attachments. My gym is more like your older one in that it is 11' by 23'.

[@BarbellLogic]

Sounds like a nice gym!

[@jeffreybabino8161]

Hay Matt great job on the video your new training aera is a little bit cramped but workable my wife and I just bought a two bedroom condo the one room is going to be my room for training and music thanks

[@BarbellLogic]

Awesome - yeah, there are ways to make it work (even in a small space).

[@jeffreybabino8161]

Yes thare is it can be done 🏋️

[@robhughes2629]

Incredible home gym, so clean. Do you have a recommendation for which specialty bar offers the most versatility / injury prevention? Love seeing all those specialty bars but only have the budget for one right now

[@BarbellLogic]

Depends on your preferences, limitations, and goals. Safety squat bar is great if you have shoulder issues. Football bar is great for bench/press variations. Axle bar is fun for Strongman. If your current bar is better for pulls, get a stiffer bar for squats (like Ohio Power Bar). Or do the opposite.

[@robhughes2629]

@@BarbellLogic makes sense, thank you

[@CM-rt8gt]

Great organization, what did you use to hold the spotter arms on wall?

[@BarbellLogic]

Same thing you'd use for bench or rower: www.roguefitness.com/rogue-bench-hanger?gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQiAsvWrBhC0ARIsAO4E6f9hS1O7jCAl-SO9jNGhX30My9saPlMkDGQDdwCBjLBBAysW3btbW9IaAm2zEALw_wcB

[@CM-rt8gt]

Thanks

[@bradleywilkins4683]

What happened to the rest of your gym from the old house? Lat pull down, leg press, echo bike etc?

[@BarbellLogic]

In his garage (has a reverse hyper and some other stuff in there).

[@ReynoldsStrong1]

I have 12 pieces of accessory equipment in my garage

[@jeffreybabino8161]

Maby a coat rack for the belts

[@BarbellLogic]

Thanks!

[@andrewjolly319]

Man I wish I didn't rent a 1 bed apartment...

[@BarbellLogic]

Hopefully you have a closeby commercial gym. Or, do the best with what you have.

[@andrewjolly319]

@@BarbellLogic Yes, I'm quite lucky, I live less than 5 minutes walk from my local gym. Whilst it only has 2 racks I can normally get their early enough to grab one. I'd just love to be able to work out at home!

[@BarbellLogic]

@@andrewjolly319 It is convenient, for sure, but glad you live close to a gym.

[@michaelderenne9838]

If its all you have then you have to do what you have to do but ill never understand why if people have garages or even basements why they put their gyms in bedrooms like this one. If thats not a bedroom then ignore my comment haha

[@BarbellLogic]

This is in an extra room in his house close to his kitchen and right next to his garage. The main benefit would be that it's climate controlled. Thanks for the comment, though!

[@igorpotocnik13]

you can not focus on training here. you can train yes, but this is not same as real good gym. it is solution but it s not same. and problem is not that it is at home. problem is, that it is to small. this just not work. again, yes you can train. of corse u can. but it is not same.

[@BarbellLogic]

I mean, maybe if you're training for the Olympics, but, um, that's not our goal.

[@markhalstead2386]

You can do squats, deadlifts, bench press, any dumbbell movements, military press, pull ups, good mornings, hip thrust, step ups, etc. It is plenty big.

[@ReynoldsStrong1]

Plus I have a garage gym with all accessory equipment.

[@igorpotocnik13]

@@markhalstead2386 it s not that is not ok. it is perfect. but how i explain this to you. let say you train judo. or waht you hawe in your country, let say bjj. you can train with trainer. or you can train with team. it is diferent. me, yes, i can train in this little gym perfectly well it has ewen to much staff for me. i need less. but most people including me, i need allso some distraction. watching some sexy girl, something. i can train allone. no problem, i can be with my selfe no problem. i can live allone. no problem. but it is like christmas dinner. this is perfect example. here we go. you prepair christmas dinner, from morning you star, you eat less for lunchy yo uare ready, all family is there you hawe funn, open some gifts, and so on. your body start to produce more spit, your stomack get more ready. ok? you are exited. than you eat to much. of corse. and if you eat same dinner at normal day, no prepertion, your stomack would heart for shore. and training is same. you are not in right mental prepration. noboda is watching you, nobody is compiting with you. i can do it, but i do this for long time. long time. most people do not. it is perfect home gym. i think, if men is pushed from otehr men, to achiwe more, he achiwe more. i try this milion times and it is total diferent mental state.

[@BJerrell]

Some of the strongest people in the world have got there by training in a smaller space with less equipment. If you can't train here, you prob don't have the dedication or discipline to take training seriously