How To Correct a Slanted Platform

This video features Bill Coyne, owner of Kratos Strength Systems in Evanston, IL. He explains how he levels a weightlifting/deadlift platform on a slanted or sloped floor.
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[@kratosstrengthsystems518]

Thanks for sharing, Alan -- hope some folks find this helpful!

[@nathan9286]

Thank you i needed this video!

[@gwillad]

e-town represent!

[@BM-si2ei]

I'm slow-planning a home gym in my third stall, and I have a mild but in-need-of-correcting slope. I've run through a number of ideas in my head, but this is better than all of them. Really appreciate the design!

[@samaga518]

This is awesome! Had a question though, how well would this work with 11mm sheets? I have a 2 1/2 inch slope so I'm thinking thicker wood will work better.

[@kratosstrengthsystems518]

@@samaga518 That should work fine -- you won't have to buy as many sheets of thin plywood that way.

[@trk8548]

Can we correct my downward sloping life?

[@mjt708]

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[@AB-fh9zh]

Yeah, but it'll take a lot more plywood and liquid nails.

[@Nawyria]

Sounds like a little bit of LIFTING is in order to correct that slope.

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[@jamesbenedict7516]

Gonna show this to my cheap ass gym owner. His unleveled platform unleveled our spine

[@BenK010]

Used this method today and it works! Thank you Bill and Alan!

[@fredastaire6156]

God damn! This is ingenious!! Thank You Bill and Alan.

[@masterphilip1313]

Little late but happy birthday to Untamed Strength!! 6 years

[@thedudeslawyer]

Total game changer for my garage gym. Thanks, Alan!

[@HarlanSchulze]

love how homie has to speed talk through the most important and complicated part lol

[@D0g3tyr]

0.25x speed comes in clutch

[@mattblack3813]

seriously even if you slow it down it really doesn't make sense. they should have put something onscreen. I cant follow it at all.

[@bensmoif]

My man needs to show his math.

[@warrenbrooks3103]

Thanks for the video! I used this to level a platform in my garage gym. 👍🏼

[@ericyamamoto6560]

Alan, thank you so much for this and all of your very informative videos. Your videos have been such an influence to me to get off my ass and get under a barbell. I recently built an 8x8 platform in my garage, but the slant on the floor isn't consistent (larger degree of slant on side). My main issue, other than dealing with this slant, is my decision to use MDF/particle board instead of plywood or OSB. MDF is brittle, doesn't hold screws well and it's heavy as sh*t. With the slant on my garage floor, the screws and glue have popped out one corner of my platform (deadlifts didn't help). I am about to scrap my whole build and start fresh using this technique.

[@TheRealThaenatos]

Perfect for what I need to have a level platform for my home gym in my sloped garage!

[@ubellubo]

Thanks. This is great. I am building my first home gym. My Matrix Aura power rack arrives tomorrow. After that, I will construct a platform just like this one as my garage has a sloping floor and I want a level platform.

[@rileybell5123]

Extremely helpful thanks! Gonna do this for sure

[@fencingrocks3]

Freaking genius, thanks! I just have some cheap shims jammed under one edge, and this is a MUCH better solution.

[@ryanyoshimura4652]

I was literally just thinking about this while lifting in my garage

[@MrLeachtc]

We just walked through our future garage. I wish I could thank this guy personally for doing this so I don’t have to do some wizardry with wood myself.

[@jamiekling9541]

Beautiful. Thank you. My slope in the garage goes down nearly 2 inches where my current rack sits. This is far simpler then trying to plane 2x4's or utilizing hard packed sand. Just gotta figure out what size cuts I need personally now.

[@vinyurd55]

Great video. I’ll be building mine this week. I have the same 1.5 inch slope per 8 feet and am using 5mm boards. Could you tell me your 8 cut lengths? Your article used 0.25 in boards so cut lengths are different from the video to the article. Thanks again.

[@MatthewH2000]

that's a pretty slanted floor... good advice on creating a level platform

[@TheLouisianan]

That floor was made by a crappy contractor or was made like that on purpose to drain. Either way, not a very good floor for a gym lol

[@chrisciccarelli]

What were the specs? How many pieces of plywood, how thick are they and what is the spacing you used?

[@D0g3tyr]

Check their article about it on their website blog section

[@swany65]

Correcting a slop is easy. Dealing with wavy high/low spots is a nightmare.

[@futbol1972]

Iam not a powerlifter and don't really do olymic lifts. Do you think i will be better off with just stall horse mats or should i get a platform to protect my epoxy floors? Also I have a small slope in garage and dont wanna be lifting on an uneven surface. If i decide to go just with stall mats i wonder how 🤔 should i level them? They are selling me an 8x8 platform here in my own town for $200. If i buy platform hkw can i level it? Sorry for all the questions and I hope you can help me. Thank u.

[@armandolara8210]

How would you recommend getting the horse stall mat look on these, as seen on 4:54? Would I place another set of plywood on top of the two 4x8 plywoods in this video or would I substitute that the horse stall design for those two?

[@kratosstrengthsystems518]

I'd keep that first layer of 4x8 plywood sheets then put stall mats on top of them.

[@markrosenberg4785]

I am building a 12' long platform with a decline of 1.25". Would you recommend 10 1/8 sheets or 5 1/4 sheets? I don't want hollow spots but not sure that will happen or not. Thanks!!

[@sriramswaminathan4254]

Due to my ceiling height limitation, is it safe if I do 1/2" plywood (instead of 3/4) under the 3/4" stall mats ? I'm mainly building this to keep my 600 lbs inspire fitness trainer equipment and standard rack and bench etc.

[@Youtubehandle1489]

Do you have to glue the top layer of ply to the wedge? It seems impractical if you need to break it down and move it from a home garage one day.

[@reedberg1]

This is great. Thank you! I'm wondering if I am putting pretty heavy rubber mats over this, could I use only those thin layers of plywood and not have to add the thick plywood layer on top? This is for my garage gym

[@jdcor77]

Did you end up doing this

[@lstaff2507]

I noticed the Top plywood hangs slightly over the wedge? If the wedges equal out to 8x8 after assembling both wedges wouldn't it sit directly on top with no extra plywood hanging over the wedge?

[@raynunez6027]

Can you explain the measurements in plate math?

[@RomanKondrachov]

I read "How to create a slanted platform". I was like, "No, no, no!"

[@ernestovidales1360]

Great video! Do think I could make a wedge a place horse stall mats on top of it with the plywood? And still hold up?

[@ernestovidales1360]

Without*

[@Skittlezz45]

Can you drive over / park your car on this? I need my garage to still be functional since I have the Rogue wall rack....

[@JLThisisMe]

I'm wondering if this will still work on a more minor slope. I'm pretty limited on space in my garage, so I would have to just stick with a platform that fits inside the squat rack, about 40" x 40" The floor is slanted only about 1/4" over that 40" but it's enough that i really feel it in my quadricep tendons (because I'm old AF, probably). That means only one sheet of 5mm would be used underneath a 3/4" sheet of plywood. Wondering if that would rock with me on it?

[@Eclipce051]

Ta That sounds about right. Let us know how did you do

[@HEATakaLouieV]

Is this worth doing if I only have about a 1/4 inch slope or less? If so wouldn’t I only need one or two layers tops

[@Mirandasiwillja]

Any idea on how to level a not only sloped, but uneven floor that is covered in gravel?

[@aesthriatea5023]

exact same slope and issue. How many total 5MM boards did you need for the whole project? That's where I'm drawing a brain fart.

[@sriramswaminathan4254]

Will this support without any issues if I keep Inspire fitness FTX trainer equipment (600 lbs) on this platform?

[@car1it05WAY]

How did you get the wood cut at an angle?

[@wooskee]

This application needs to be shown for an entire single car garage floor. Then I'll do it

[@AndyTargaryen]

I may be missing something but, if 1.5" was needed to level out and each wedge sheet was ~0.4" (2/5ths) thick then wouldn't that require 1.5/0.4 = 3.75 wedge sheet pieces under the far end? Dunno where 8 came from. Wouldn't 8 pieces x 0.4 inches = 3.2" of elevation?

[@CamKidman]

5mm ends up being .19", closer to 1/5 (which makes the rest of his math accurate), I think my guy just misspoke

[@InputOutput10]

Thanks for this comment, I got 3.75 pieces as well but that makes more sense

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That Bill Coyne... He's okay.

[@michaeltiemeyer9552]

Thomas Campitelli, is Thomas your more sophisticated alter ego, Tom?

[@bigwill6974]

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@josefrancisco5966]

How far should power rack be from wall?

[@scri33le]

Ugh, I needed this video terribly but I still don't wanna have to do it. I think I gotta though. I'm getting vertigo with my current setup.

[@newcenturyautos5390]

does this need to be structural plywood or is non structural ok?

[@JMAnonymousMK]

Came in expecting to walk out with good form and now just have scoliosis.

[@codyd6385]

could you just put the nice oak layer right on top instead of a second sheet? (if i were doing a 4x8 platform)

[@kratosstrengthsystems518]

You can definitely do that. Oak or any other nice hardwood will cost significantly more than standard plywood, but will look much nicer and could end up being more durable in the long run.

[@horaiyo]

@@kratosstrengthsystems518 What about just putting stall mat directly onto the shim?

[@kratosstrengthsystems518]

@@horaiyo That would work as well. When I do attach rubber to platforms, I don't use any kind of adhesive -- I just screw it into the wood whether it's directly onto the shim or another base layer of plywood.

[@deliciousjunk5312]

A problem with this, specifically with attaching the new wedge to the base of the platform with Glue is that you're probably unable to reuse that old platform if you ever go to a non or differently slanted place. If it's the piece under the main platform, just use screws, Gravity will hold it down (along with the weight on top) and the screws will stop it sliding around.

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[@SethBeck]

Applied mathematics. Cool.

[@everardotejeda8857]

I have the same problem, thats how you solve it thanks. Looks hard though.

[@JJmccarthy69]

I wonder if this would work for me but my garage is unlevel both ways so I’m assuming probably not if I did it this way it would fix it leaning left to right but it would still be unlevel from front to back

[@mattcronin1877]

I wonder how ridiculous it would be to build these in 2 different directions and stack them. Your platform would be like 6 inches high but might do the trick

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[@eashanshenai4980]

4:35 , 4:45 What is that form???

[@lenisemicolon]

Ben Dover I think he was just moving the barbell around and sitting it on the platform, not actually deadlifting it 😅

[@Patient_Zero01]

Show this to the people at Kern US Open

[@Nivlaek5thAge]

I went to kratostrengthsystems.com... Where's the article?

[@kratosstrengthsystems518]

Sorry for the delay -- just got the article posted!

[@KrisKArnold]

I watch till the end to hear Alan yell, "Train Untamed!" at me. Was disappointed...:-(

[@Xplora213]

Kris Arnold I've got outro blue balls too

[@mattblack3813]

I really dont understand the point about each board segment being a bit longer than the other one. Wouldn't the very, very simple thing to be to take an 8' board, and have each segment/slope just be 1'? so you'd cut one 7' and 1', another 6' and 2', another 5' and 3'...

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[@alexn3190]

Rick Sanchez?

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[@jayn8392]

Pretty clever, but all that plywood was probably at least 150$ plus the nice center ply and the rubber mats they didn't install

[@souperhart]

so does this prove the earth isnt flat or

[@TheLouisianan]

That wedge was made at 17 degrees to account for the Coriolis effect lol

[@musclemonster9453]

Good morning, I am a 13 year old who has been weight training for about 1 and a half years. From Februarg up till May I stopped simply weight training and started powerlifting. I wanted to gain maximal strenght as well as loose weight and since my trainer was a professional strongman he new powerlifting well. I gained a lot of strenght as well as lost 6 or a bit more pounds of fat. For meal 1 I ate 3 eggs and a tomato, for meal 2 I ate quaker oats with plain yoghurt and sometimes a fruit, for meal 3 I ate a banana, for meal 4 I ate around 180-200g (sometimes more) chicken breast with rice, for meal 5 I ate an apple and a kiwi, for meal 6 I ate around 200g chicken breast with rice and fried onions, lastly for meal 7 I ate an orange. This was I think about 1700-1900 cal per day. I did 30 minutes fasted cardio with 5 minutes abs training 4 times per week and did heavy weights powerlifting for an hour to a hour and 15 minutes 3 times per week, the sessions were legs, chest, and back. My squat max was 220 pounds. After I almost broke my back and injured it in the squat I stopped weight training entirely. For about 1 to 2 months I did 10 minutes abs workout in the morning and as I ate a few calories I became sleapy all the time with a low blood pressure sometimes 51 and a pulse of 48 today. I also lost 17 pounds of fat in the last 31 days. I will not be getting into weight training for a while. Can you please advice how much calories I should eat per day until I am only doing the 10 minutes abs workout entirely without weight training since if I eat 1700 cal per day right now I will have a weight gain, thank you.

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Youre 13, focus on technique. Soon your testosterone levels will skyrocket , and thats when you will see the most gains. But just as a tip , when you try to talk about Caloric needs , you need to convey your weight and height , aswell as your rough Bodyfat percentage.

[@samm4980]

Would there be any reason I couldn’t put down a base layer of pressure treated OSB, build the wedge on top of the OSB, and then put another solid layer on top of the wedge? I’m mostly concerned about direct contact of that 5 mm board with concrete and moisture.

[@tomdrozdowski140]

4:46 ouch

[@BigSavageG]

Moew

[@muineeguh7011]

Lumber is so gosh dang pricey right now😢

[@igneous061]

...liquid nails?!?? what?

[@wanderer4125]

Strong wood glue.

[@Itsmeyourdad666]

At my gym, this asshole was doing Olympic weightlifting on the deadlift platform and kept throwing/slamming the weights down on the platform and COMPLETELY destroyed it. Now deadlifting is a pain with the bar rolling all over the place

[@markjurczyk]

Next time do cuts outside, hahahahahahah

[@JD83000]

Might as well just level the whole floor out with a levelling compound

[@chucksenhowzen9740]

Will this correct all the poor decisions in my life?

[@chucksenhowzen9740]

Natty Fatty Powerlifting 😢

[@josurke]

How people watch this and think “simple” is beyond me

[@cravensboughner2425]

I made it with Stodoys plans!

[@a.schnitzer9325]

"Liquid nails"? Sometimes English is so funny.

[@tomstclair3927]

It's a brand name for a construction adhesive.

[@adoboFosho]

@@tomstclair3927 kinda like duck tape right babe?

[@a.schnitzer9325]

The German word ist Heißklebepistole. Like "hot glue pistol"...

[@tomstclair3927]

@@adoboFosho LOL

[@FFlores-fr2ew]

Why do you need the extra piece after you have divded for the distance from the floor?