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Best Gym Floor Review - My Home Gym Is Finally Coming Together!

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Channel: Mike Martins · 2017 · Howto & Style

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“The more it looks and feels like a real gym, the more you’re going to want to actually go and spend time.” — Mike Martins

YouTubers, the home gym flooring is officially DONE!

After about two and a half to three hours of working on this floor, I finally have the entire room covered and I'm really happy with how it turned out. It's not professionally installed, and there's a corner or two that isn't absolutely perfect, but I did it myself and once the equipment gets in here, it's going to look great.

This is just the beginning.

Now that I've got the proper flooring down, I can finally start bringing in the equipment. I'm planning on getting a treadmill, an elliptical machine and building up a proper free-weight section. I'm thinking about going mainly with dumbbells instead of loading the room up with barbells and a bunch of equipment I don't need.

I also want to mount a TV on the wall, put mirrors around the workout area, add some shelves for water bottles and accessories, and make this room actually feel like a real gym.

That's important to me because if the room looks and feels like somewhere you actually want to work out, I think I'm going to be much more motivated to use it.

My plan is to wake up early, come down here, open the window, get some fresh air, put on some music and knock out an hour or hour-and-a-half workout before starting the rest of my day.

And I'm putting the number out there:

I'm 210 pounds right now.

THE GOAL: 180 POUNDS.

That's 30 pounds I want to lose.

I've got the space now. I've got the flooring. Next comes the equipment. After that, there are no excuses!

This whole house has become one project after another, but that's part of Living the Dream. Instead of buying everything finished, I'm slowly building the house into exactly what I want for my family.

If you've built your own home gym, let me know what you did with your flooring and equipment. Did you use interlocking rubber mats? Carpet? Did you put mirrors up? What equipment do you think is absolutely necessary?

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