gym area size

Overhead presses can be done inside some commercial racks that are very tall, but most home and light commercial racks are only about 7ft tall, to fit under 8ft ceilings with room to spare, meaning an average height male will likely bang against the bar against the top crossmembers, if not hit the plates on the ceiling.

So all that being said, just for a basic power rack and a flat or adjustable bench to use in it, you want at least a 10ft x 7ft area.

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Subscribe So while the footprint itself is about the same, functionally it could work better.

Anyway, he has a couple nice portable squat stands he brings outside for doing overhead presses.

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In addition, will you have a bench that you will slide in for bench pressing? Don’t forget about where you’ll be storing your weight plates. You want to have a space large enough to serve a good number of the residents at one time, while maintaining fire safety regulations.

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I want to create an amenity fitness center in our apartment complex, what rules of thumb should I use to size such a facility?

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In the amenity fitness center world, and specifically, an apartment complex, we need to know how many tenants will have access to the fitness center.

Rogue makes one that sticks out 21.5" or 41.5" from the wall.

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That’s great.

A snatch will require slightly less height because your grip is wider, while a thruster (a front squat, push press, and back to front squat position, usually done in high reps) will require slightly more height because it's done with a lighter weight that you can repeatedly throw up to the limits of your reach.

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A small-footprint squat rack, not the safest in the world but better than nothing.

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He says it's 11ft wide, but it looks narrower than that to me.