Blackwood Gym
- Use
- Home gym
- Size
- 4 × 5 m
- Location
- Level lawn
A low, dark building with a reinforced floor, a full rack and enough air to train hard in August.
Read the Blackwood Gym case study
Garden gyms
Train at home. Properly.
A gym in the garden, designed around what you actually lift, ride or roll out, with the floor, the headroom and the air to match.
No membership. No drive. Nobody waiting for the rack.
What a gym asks of a building
Designed around the kit.
A gym asks more of a building than a desk does. Send us your equipment list and we design the room to suit it.
- 01
Floor
Heavy equipment concentrates load. We design the floor structure around your heaviest item and finish it in rubber where it's needed.
- 02
Headroom
Overall height is often limited by planning rules, so we plan the inside around your movements and put the height where you press, jump and pull.
- 03
Air
Windows that open on two sides for a through-draught, and air conditioning for the sessions that need it.
- 04
Sound
Rubber flooring and a lifting platform take the thump out of dropped weights. Your neighbours need never know you're up.
- 05
Mirrors and storage
A full-height mirror wall for form, and a place for every plate, band and mat so the floor stays clear.
What fits
From a yoga mat to a full rig.
Three footprints drawn to the same scale, with the equipment that sits comfortably in each.
Yoga and cardio
3 × 3 mA mat, a bike and a wall of storage. Enough for a daily practice.
Rack and rower
3 × 4 mA half rack against the back wall, a rower along the side and floor space in front of the glass.
Full gym
4 × 5 mLifting, cardio and a stretching zone, each with its own territory.
Specified for training
Tell us what you lift. We'll do the rest.
- Floor
- Designed around your equipment, with extra joists beneath racks and rigs
- Flooring
- Rubber, timber or a combination by zone
- Ventilation
- Opening windows on opposite walls
- Cooling
- Air conditioning as an option
- Power
- Sockets positioned for cardio machines and screens
- Acoustics
- Optional acoustic treatment: denser linings and impact-absorbing floors
Recovery
And afterwards.
A sauna, a cold shower, a bench in the evening sun. Recovery can be part of the same building or a small one beside it. Our garden saunas page has layouts and costs.
Projects
A garden gym, from brief to handover.
Questions
Garden gyms, answered.
Can the floor take heavy weights and equipment?
Tell us what you'll be using, whether that's a loaded rack, a treadmill or a rig, and we design the floor structure for it. The standard floor suits cardio machines, free weights and a bench; beneath a loaded rack or rig we add joists and finish with rubber flooring.
Is there enough headroom for overhead lifts and pull-ups?
Overall height is often limited by planning rules, so we design the inside of the room around your movements: where the rack goes, where you press overhead, where the ceiling can be at its highest. Tell us your height and what you do.
How do you keep a garden gym cool?
Opening windows on two sides for a through-draught, and air conditioning for harder sessions. In Greece, and in south-facing UK gardens, we'd treat cooling as essential rather than optional.
Will the neighbours hear it?
Insulated walls take the edge off music and conversation. Dropped weights are a different kind of noise: rubber flooring and an isolated lifting platform deal with most of it, and acoustic treatment is available as an option.
Can you add a sauna?
Yes. A sauna can share the building with your gym, with a hot room partitioned off at one end, or stand as a small building of its own beside it. See our garden saunas page for layouts and costs.
Send us your kit list.
Tell us what you train with and we'll tell you what size you need. Or price one up yourself.