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For the last six months, I have been building the sickest home gym on the planet. No bias whatsoever. The reason we bought the house is not because we saw ourselves starting a family here, but rather we knew the basement had
Will Tennyson transforms his basement into a professional gym, showcasing the renovation, equipment selection, and challenges faced.
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Key Takeaways
- Building a home gym requires careful planning and flexibility due to unexpected challenges like load-bearing walls.
- Custom gym equipment can be sourced and tested to ensure quality and suitability.
- Renovation projects often face delays and require coordination with multiple tradespeople.
- Incremental progress and patience are key to completing a complex home gym build.
- Collaborations and reviews from experts add credibility and excitement to the project.
What the video covers
- Will Tennyson bought a house mainly for its basement potential to build a home gym.
- The renovation involved removing moldings, tearing down walls, and repurposing spaces like a sauna and red light room.
- Will visited Atlantis HQ and gym in Montreal to select custom gym equipment.
- He tested and chose various machines including plate loaded chest press, pivot press, pendulum squat, and hack squat.
- During renovation, they discovered a load-bearing wall that required improvisation.
- The sauna was built but lacked heater installation, causing delays.
- Gym flooring, mirrors, and equipment were gradually installed, making the gym feel more real.
- Will experienced stress due to tight deadlines and ongoing construction challenges.
- He plans to have a full review of the gym by Coupe from Garage Gym Reviews.
- The video highlights the process, excitement, and obstacles of building a high-end home gym.
Chapters
- 00:00Introduction and Basement Potential
- 01:28Removing Old Fixtures and Wall Demolition
- 03:12Selecting Gym Equipment at Atlantis HQ
- 05:24Wall Demolition Challenges and Load-Bearing Wall
- 07:28Sauna Construction and Installation Issues
- 09:12Flooring and Equipment Delivery
- 11:03Gym Equipment Setup and Final Touches
- 14:59Review Plans and Final Thoughts
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potential to be a killer gym. So, here's how we went from this to this.
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Yes, dude. We're only one day into the renovation, and already a lot of things have been done. So, we have removed all of the moldings around the windows and around the base of the entire basement. It's going to just look a lot cleaner with
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the wall just to have no crown moldings. It's not really gym. The plan, if possible, is to turn this kind of cold cellar into just like a beautiful sauna.
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It's like the perfect size for it. They said because there's a drain there on the floor that it can be done. So, we're very hopeful for that. And then in this door over here, we're going to turn this
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into a red light room. So, there's going to be panels everywhere. And then we want to have a glass door, which is like, how sick is that going to be?
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Like, all the lights are going to be off. And then I'm just going to be standing here, red light. It's going to be some like Christian Bale, American Psycho kind of thing. So, some of you guys probably remembered that there was
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this beautiful built-in with the fireplace on this side. And then on this side there was like a beautiful countertop with like a fridge, a sink.
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We just obliterated all that. I mean, hopefully we're not like nuking the value of the home if we need to resell it.
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We might be. I don't know. But maybe. So, I guess we're only selling this to lifters in the future. So, all that is gone. Now, the next big thing of the renovation is you see this wall right here all the way down there. We are
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completely getting rid of it. So that this whole entire area here is being attached to this in here.
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So it's gonna make the space a lot more open. While the renovations continue, we made our way over to Montreal to check out the Atlantis HQ to see if this is the equipment we want. I've always been a fan of their pieces, so it was really
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cool to see the equipment being made right in front of me. Everything's made to order. Then it was time to go to the Atlantis gym to actually test some of the stuff on my wish list. We are currently in the Atlantis gym. 55,000
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square feet of just pure Atlantis equipment that used to be a car dealership. This place is huge. So, we're going to try out some of the equipment. Starting with the plate loaded chest press, which actually felt incredible.
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I think we have to get that one. You cannot beat that stretch. Katie totally fell in love with the pivot press, so we definitely have to get that for her.
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We're definitely going to get the pivot press. We also must get the pendulum squat, but then we also must get the hack squat. I feel like all of our machines are just going to be leg machines.
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Oh yeah, this might be the main back compound at the tennis and gym. All the machines we tested so far felt like no-brainers. We were sold on almost all of them. What we didn't realize was that we were about to make a massive
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mistake. Well, I was about to make a massive mistake, not Katie. The gym would not be complete without this piece right here.
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Everyone needs to have a standing lateral raise machine. And this one is one of the best.
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Every night before bed, I just come downstairs, do a quick 100, go to sleep.
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I'll be the freaking this wide. There are so many things that look so good, but I have to remind myself that this gym is something I can add pieces to over time, and I don't need to get everything all at once. Time to take
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down the wall, baby. I look more like a stripper than a construction worker, but regardless, I'm ready to work. So, you see right here, we're about to freaking get through this thing. So, I've been given a crowbar, which honestly, in my
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opinion, seems like the least productive way to do it, but I think it's the only thing I'm actually trusted with. Like, I feel like this is something you walk around in like GTA with, you know, just like, you know, not take down a wall, but here
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we go. Okay, hold on before I go crazy. Here's the wall before. Okay, now it's time to do the only thing I know how. Hit it as hard as I possibly can.
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Jesus. TAKE THAT. YOU WANT SOMETHING? That's probably not good. I think I really need like a chainsaw or something here, man. I feel like I'm like healing my inner child right now while I'm doing this.
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I got way too into tearing down that wall, like concerningly into it. At a certain point, it stopped being about a renovation and it started feeling like a therapy session I didn't sign up for.
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Hey, you're close to the stunt. This is how I show up to a gunfight, just with a hammer.
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Wall is down. The wall is down, which is awesome. But what we didn't realize is that this is a load-bearing wall. So we can't remove the wooden panels at all. So we need to improvise.
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The walls are starting to be installed and it's looking really good. So got the panels there, panels over on that wall.
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Paint is starting to go up today. It's coming along. And the mirrors are also being installed today. So every single day is starting to look more and more like an actual gym. The truck backing in right now has
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the gym floors, the dumbbells, the plates, and squat rack. Thank you. Take care. Oh, the more that I see, the more real it feels. And then we have the dumbbell rack here. So, the squat rack actually isn't in yet. I think this is
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potentially the like the plates maybe. No, we cannot show that one. We cannot show that one.
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Look at that. I don't know if you guys can see that. The Tennyson logo there. Black on black with a nice little like sheen.
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Wow, that is so neat. So, we have these for all the plates in the gym. Looking at the plate in person for the first time, I was more excited than ever for this build to be finished because it started
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to feel so real. I'm going to cry. So excited. Exciting day. The sauna is finally finished. Well, not quite. You'll see what I mean here. My oh my, do I love the smell of fresh wood.
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As you can see, there's no lights in the sauna because they didn't install lights. Then I looked to the side and there's no heater in the sauna. Not much of a sauna without a heater. So I was like, "Where is the heater?" And they're
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like, "Well, we provide the heater. We don't install it." I was like, "Oh, yeah, of course. I definitely Yeah. So we have to call an electrician, another electrician, which is it's a pain in the ass." So, one thing that I've learned
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building this gym is that if I wasn't a YouTuber, I would become an electrician or a plumber. Really, anybody in the trades because they just make so much money. So much money. So, yeah, we got to make another phone call.
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Oh, it's going to be worth it. Not only do I need to figure out the sauna, I I look at look at this. There there's wires on the ceiling still. The floor is not in. There's just stuff everywhere.
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Today is March 1st. The truck is coming with all of the equipment to install on March 9th. So yeah, we we are very behind. We have eight days to sort all this stuff out.
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So worried is an understatement right now. I am looking around right now and I'm just like there is no way that we can actually pull this off in time. Like Coupe is going to come all the way down
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and he's going to be like, where is all the equipment? Like literally the only piece of equipment he can use is a chainsaw. Like we got we got nothing. So I I don't I feel like he's going to give
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my team gym a higher score than my actual gym, which kind of defeats the purpose of my redemption. Yeah, it's going to be a lot of late nights.
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Oh yeah, I forgot to mention. You guys remember Coupe from Garage Gym Reviews? Well, he's coming back to do a full in-depth review of my gym, and this time I'm looking for redemption after that Teimu gym. Oh, and he surprises me with
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a pretty crazy gift to take this gym to the next level. Look how exciting this is. We
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Hey, very cool. So, everyone got back to work as fast as they could and the floors were being installed today, which was huge. When the floors are in, it just makes things look so much better. The company that put the floors in also
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brought me a gift. So, they're officially my new favorite company. And with 2 days until the equipment arrives, this is when I realized my monumental mistake I mentioned at the beginning of the video. I'm having the hardest time
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figuring out how I'm going to fit everything in the basement. Right now, I'm using this software thing to try to figure things out. Like, I'm using pool tables and cabinets to mimic the machines. And um uh it's not it's not going so well. If
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you're going to build your own home gym, make sure to measure your basement before you buy everything.
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I cross my fingers. grabbed the measuring tape and started measuring the best I could, hoping I could figure something out. This was like an insane game of Tetris. So, please, please measure before you buy things. Please.
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Today is install day and I'm I'm in the back of the truck right now with all of the machines and I can see a little bit of it and I don't think I felt this excited since I was like 10 years old on
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Christmas morning. This is literally like throwing me back to that feeling again. I'm so excited. Boba, hi buddy. You can come down soon. I promise. The dude has not been downstairs since December.
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Almost time. It was absolute chaos downstairs with everyone building away. I'm also just low-key terrified the layout I had in mind doesn't actually fit because then I'm in serious trouble.
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But that actually wasn't my only problem. Everyone is downstairs building everything right now. The thing that we are very nervous about is the lat pull down because I didn't really account for ceiling height either. So, they don't know if it's going to fit. And if it
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doesn't fit, I can't return it. And it's $10,000. So, I'm praying right now. We're praying.
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So, with $10,000 on the line, it was time to stand up the machine. Yeah.
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Yeah. Keep your finger there. You don't mind? I I only seal it slowly. Yeah. You're good.
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That's crazy. That's not right now. The anabolic gods were on my side for that one. Wow. With everything installed, the next day I had to bring all the weights downstairs from the garage. And that definitely was not a
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one-man job. That was the hardest [ __ ] I've ever done, guys. The gym it's it's done. We spent the entire day yesterday mopping, cleaning everything, and it's ready.
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Come take a quick look. Welcome to my home gym. Coupe is going to be here in like 5 minutes, but just a quick run through here. We got all the leg stuff. We got the hack squat. We got the hamstring
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curl over here. We have the pendulum squat. We have the nice built-in sauna right here. Remember when I wanted the red light room with the glass? Red light room with the glass. Custom tennis and plates. And then you'll see right here
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in the leather, we got the tennis and leather right there. Of course, every good gym needs to have a lateral raise machine. So, I'm just going to come down here between meals. Like literally every hour, I'm going to bang out 50. Like if
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I don't get disgustingly jacked in this place, there's something significantly wrong with me, right? So yeah, leg press. Then over here we have dumbbells from five all the way to 120 lbs. And just like the plates, they are also custom with the Tennyson logo
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as well. Squat rack with this really sick tennis plated custom mount on the back. And then over here is more of the upper body stuff. We have the lap pull down which then turns into the cable row.
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We have a preacher pad right here. We have this chest press machine which I'm super excited to use.
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My own Smith machine. I don't have to share it with anybody. Just my very own Smith machine.
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Functional trainer. Oh, and then over here. It's not done yet. We're going to get a hyper bear chamber in here.
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We have the Zift bike because you should be doing your cardio. So, this is what we're working with right now. And Coop's here. What's up, dude? Good to see you again.
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Daddy's home again. Okay. Well, we're going to be ranking your gym on three criteria. First is aesthetics. Second is equipment. And third is infrastructure.
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Infrastructure. Infrastructure. So, just like last time, I'm going to throw the blindfold on you.
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This one's not from Teemo. It's a bit padded. That's nice. Yeah. Wow. All right, let's go. Okay, ready?
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Yeah. 3 2 1 Yes, dude. This is an entirely different feeling than what it was before.
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This makes like the Teimu gym look like a feels like a children's playground. It does. I knew your aesthetics would be nice, but dude, you did it. This is primo. Oh, and it's all custom.
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You did your custom logo. We did. Yeah, they spelled it wrong. So, this is kind of like the leg Oh, dude.
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dungeon area. This is the greatest hack spot of all time. Yes. I 100% agree.
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I would prefer this over a car. And you kind of have to decide. A lot of people do because this costs as much and takes as much space as a car.
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This by far takes the most space. Did you get the pendulum behind you? Yes. Just so the audience is aware, this strip of rubber on the pendulum squat costs more than all of the Teimu gym equipment that was in here before. So,
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this can go in different angles. Oh, everything is so heavy, too. It's just fun.
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It just feels so new. It does. As soon as you move soon as you move some Oh, it's nice.
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It has that new equipment smell like the new car smell. It does. Yeah. The back pad with the logo. I didn't notice that either.
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Everything. Well, why the baby blue? Just you always like that color. I mean, reminds me of the ocean. This very specific Jason Mamoa dream that I had.
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Can I ride it? Of course you can. I must ride. You're taking the virginity of this pencil, man. I haven't used it yet.
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Oh, you haven't? No. Is this okay? Are you sure? Go for it. I'm locked in, coach.
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Oh, just so smooth. Yeah. Yeah. It's just fantastic. Can't even hear the knees crack, man.
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I noticed there's no plates yet. There's plates. Do they have custom logo, too? Oh yes. Okay. These are better body.
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Better man. Better body. These are nice, dude. The freaking goat. Working with them. Yeah.
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Best company. You're going to notice that everything is basically like tennis and branded. Okay.
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Yeah. So, if you come down and outlift me, you can't outlift my ego. You're kind of that old guy, you know, with his lawn.
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Yeah. You just put your hands here, you stick your butt out, you just I fear I might I might never leave my house other than for my court appearances.
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I know. That's the Yeah. The sauna. Yeah. So, we built this in. I bet this heats up quick.
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Oh, dude. Yeah. It gets to 195. Nice. Like my sauna hat. Look at that.
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So, just in case I die. That's sick. If I die in here, I get locked in. I die with honor with this.
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That's nice, dude. That's my wife's. That's nice. You let me wear it. Yeah, that's kind.
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Not much hair is going to get on it. So, thanks. This is the red light room. Watch your eyes for a second. Watch my eyes.
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Oh my good. Yes. I look like Vecna from Stranger Things 11. That is really That is something.
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I went to high school with the guy who started this company. Really? Yeah. Here.
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Yeah. Here. That's Yeah. So, like he helped me with that. Dang. Yeah. Good for him.
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So, they gave me a code. If you use code will on calerapy, you got 15% off.
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So far, it seemed like we were off to a really good start. He was impressed with some of the decisions. So, let's hope it stays that way.
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We have a tea bar row here. Yep. Which I actually really like this one. This one's like the humbler.
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Oh, it's great. It's like Oh, yeah. Because look how far the weights off. Yeah. It really stretches the lat at the end.
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Oh, yeah. And you like the placement? It's like right in the stairwell. Oh, it's perfect. You can just look down.
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See what I'm saying? I'm just like rowing. And I'm like, "Good morning, honey. Do you have a good sleep? I'm just training some back.
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This is probably like my favorite piece in the gym." Well, you were Last time we were here, you had this.
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Yeah, dude. It's the best piece. Just because you like cycling, I love it. Or you like this specific bike?
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I love cycling though. Okay. I'm addicted. It's like a video game. Are you Do you do road cycling?
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No. Why? I don't like a hit. Okay. Killed, you know. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I've heard that's not good.
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Yeah. Yeah. Lateral raise. Oh, it's fantastic. The thing with it is I wish there was more tension at the start.
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I could see. Yeah, I know what you mean. Uh but it's a tremendous lateral raise.
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The problem I'm Are you worried about that? No. You're not going that high, too.
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Okay. Okay. You're not going that high. No. Okay. No full range of motion in this gym.
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Okay. You were originally going to put the dumbbells over here. Yes. But then measurement wise at all.
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Yeah. Okay. Cuz there was a kitchen, I believe, over here. There was. I've been saying the entire time I feel like we completely like just like synced the value of the home. We just removed all the stuff that people
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want like a fireplace, nice built-in unit, just home gym all the way up to 120 lb.
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Dang. Better body. Let's see. You got them in 5 lb increments. 5 lb increments. Yeah. All the way through to 120.
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105. 110. 11520. 1151 120. Dang. They like match perfectly to your plates. Yeah. The aesthetics are primo. They really are. The end caps. They match the plates so well.
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Yeah. And then when I want to go for a PR, I just I look at the sword back when I was in my prime.
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That is pretty sick. Yeah. I do notice the rack. I wasn't going to get a rack until you said until they put my name on it and then I was like, I got to have it.
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That's pretty sick. I know. It's pretty sick. I was going to do most of my stuff out here.
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Yeah. So, okay. Yeah. Then if you're going to do that, you need to get half spotters.
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Oh, yeah. Because I don't know. I feel like there's something kind of cool about no spotter in your basement by yourself, isolated out of nowhere.
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You You got to make that lift. It would force you. YOU'RE LIKE, "YEAH, LEG PRESS.
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YEP. Leg press. Dude, it's just fantastic." Typical leg presses like on the rail. Yeah.
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Kill my knees. But this one just feels so nice. Yeah. Yeah. It's big. And it is a plate eater.
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That's why they have huge horns. Just stack stack stack. One thing I will say, your layout, who designed your layout?
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Me. Okay. I can tell. You can tell you're going to move things around. Yeah, cuz like some of these angles and stuff, I think you're taking up excess space.
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Really, dude. And actually, the angles are kind of the angles are kind of messing with me.
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From my impression looking at the gym, I feel like I I can only add one maybe two more pieces.
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Dude, you could add so many pieces. What? Oh man, it just depend. Like this isn't a commercial gym, so you don't have to worry about like, oh, if people need to get around the the the leg press, they've got to like move around.
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That doesn't matter. There's a lot of guys that just have I mean, it's like Tetris. But even if you like it open and airy, you could have a lot more pieces.
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And the other thing is Atlantis isn't making compact pieces where there's a lot of companies, one example is Jim Leo. They would take a normal piece like this and shrink it a lot. This is their other Mount Rushmore piece, the incline
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plate loaded press. So yeah, sick. Yeah, it is very good. The only thing I don't love about it is there's no kick lever. You ever seen those uh cork yoga blocks? Yep.
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You can place them under here. Place them right there. Yeah. And then you place them so they're like partway off.
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Oh. And then when you lift, they just fall. Yep. And then you can do your set.
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Lat pull down and low row. Which then with the spring? Yeah. Oh, it's so nice. big oversized pulleys.
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Yep. They do use uh if you just want to go absolutely ham and want to spend a lot of money and have a slightly smoother experience, you can replace these with aluminum. They'll be slightly smoother.
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And then the functional trainer trainer, it's nice. Just don't recommend doing pull-ups. This one thing that kind of annoys me about like you see that and you're like, "Oh, I'm doing a 45 lb, you know, tricep kick." You're not doing 45 lbs. That's
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like on a 4:1 or a 3:1 ratio. I think it's 3:1. So, it's actually like a third of that weight. The reason they do that is because now you have cable travel.
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Wo. What? Yes. See what? Why the reason that companies do that? One, if you want to do more athletic movements. The other thing is it makes the makes it jump less because it's on those ratios. So like minor movements
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like it's not going to make the stack like pop up as much. So that's one reason companies do it. The other is it's kind of vanity like it like looks like you're doing more than you really are.
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Yeah. You know. Wow. But the annoying thing is you've got 300 lb stack there and you can only use a fourth of that. There's no way, dude.
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Oh yeah. That's nothing. See what I'm saying? Yeah. Who the hell does bent over runs like that?
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I do those. Do you really? I can feel the flo flo flo flo flo flo flo flo flo flo flo flo flo flo flo flo flo flo flo flo floating floor.
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This is like an 8 mil. How do you know this [ __ ] man?
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I think that's eight. Dude, I do this all day, every day. If you're going to deadlift, which you may not deadlift much anymore.
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Okay. All right. No deadlift, no squats. [ __ ] So, just I mean, don't be nice. Whatever it is, it is.
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Do you like the gym? I love it. Yeah. Then that's Dude, then anything I'm going to say doesn't matter. If you love it, that's great. I'm still going to roast you. But just so you know, if you like it,
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Yeah. I'm glad you like it and you should for a number of reasons. You've worked hard to get this. Okay.
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First is aesthetics. Aesthetics, I would say, is your shining achievement. By far, this gym is beautiful. Yeah, it really is. It's a batcave. The details are there. the matching uh ceiling to the walls. And we're not just talking paint, but also spackle. Like
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everything's flat. Like it just fits. But you also have multiple textures with the walls, with the fluted uh walls, the lighting. I mean, dude, the aesthetics, they're they're nines. To the nines, they're very well done. So, because they're to
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the nines, I give you nine and a half out of 10. Okay. What's What's the point five? Just nothing can be perfect.
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Nothing can be perfect. That makes sense. Equipment. Okay, here's the thing. If I was going to Whenever it starts off with a little bit of a laugh, I'm in I'm in for one. Oh, [ __ ] Dude, if I was going to choose a single
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company to do equipment like you've done it, Atlant's would be one of my top picks. It would. But every company has their highlights and their low lightss.
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And Atlantis has probably more highlights than most, but they do have some that are just okay, you know, and so you chose really good options. But like for example, little stuff like the preacher curl, it's like h it's a good
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preacher curl, but there's better preacher curls. Bench, same thing. So for the equipment, I'm giving you a 6 out of 10.
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Okay. Okay. And not the equipment is fantastic, but when I think of the best gyms, they're curated gyms. So it's like you take the best from Atlantis, from Prime, from Panata, from Gym Leo.
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I couldn't go through the stress, oh man, it's it's it's a deep rabbit hole. But I will say over time, I bet you'll get into it.
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Yeah, I'll take the six out of 10, man. I'll take that. Oh, yeah. Then infrastructure. So infrastructure includes things like your flooring.
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Y, your lighting, sound control, layout. Oh, [ __ ] Layout is another one. You know, like that matters a lot.
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Mirrors, I guess, is that part of it. Mirrors is part of it. Basically, everything that is a part of the gym that really most people aren't think that's not the equipment that most people aren't thinking of. uh because
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all of that creates an experience that makes you want to come back to it. But I would say for the infrastructure, you're looking at about a six as well.
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Okay. You went with the linear lights. Do you like it? I do. Yeah. You were going to do hex lights though.
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I was. But then I thought the more I thought about it, I was like that's just so trendy. Everyone does it. And I think it's going to like phase out in like a couple years. You know, this will last. And the other beautiful
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part is you've got it the linear light on the ceiling and the wall. Like this is such a nice touch. This is just, dude, this made it. Flooring is good, but it could be better. And the layout really hurt you. Like this. You won't
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keep this here. No. No, you won't. Because you're like like one, it's kind of in the way here.
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It kind of hurts the flow. Yeah. The other is I don't like I think you're going to you're going to that's going to annoy you.
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I think that's going to annoy you cuz you don't want to think about anything being there. You just want a lateral raise. And if you have other people coming, will you have other people come and train with you?
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Yeah, of course. Okay. It's an open door policy. Oh, it's right there. Okay. Come on in. Yeah.
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Because you'll have people that are like not like super wrong, you know? Yeah. Like I can't do that here. So just Mike Israel can't come over.
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Yeah. So that is 6 plus 6 plus 9 and a half. Oh, 9 and a2. That is 21 and a half.
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Yep. Out of 30. Dude, I'm happy with that, dude. I mean, over anything over 15.
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Yeah. I just want to pass. No, I mean it's a a fantastic gym, dude.
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But before Coupe left, he actually surprised me with a pretty crazy gift that is definitely going to increase my total equipment score.
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Okay. Well, I brought these as a gift to you. Uh this is literally the gym of the future and uh I think this will take both your gains and your gym from, you know, like maybe a six to like an eight
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to an eight. So, this is called a Beyond Power Boltra. It packs nearly all of that waste access that's there into this. but in a way that uses no momentum and has fully adjustable resistance curves.
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And how much do these things go for? Uh they're $2,000. Like in terms for one?
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Yeah, for one. So you just did you just get me a $4,000 gift for you?
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Of course. Thank you, man. Of course. No problem, man. You know, you hug kind of light. There you go.
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There you go. You You don't even use two though. You don't even need two hands.
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Well, there you go. And then listen to this. You are ready to lift, sir. All right, weight training. So, I'm just going to put this on a standard 20 lbs.
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That sound effect, man. I know. The haptic, too. It just like just go ahead and try it, actually. Do you want You want to take that off?
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You can take it off. Yeah. It's the foreskin. Oh, yeah. Feels good. That feels nice.
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Yeah. No momentum, just consistent throughout. Count the rest and sets and it will count your rest time. Okay.
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Okay. So, now we're going to do eccentrics. So, eentric means it's going to increase the load as you go down.
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Your first rep's just going to be 20. Oh. Oh, there you go. Oh, it just went.
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Yeah. What? There you go. There you go. Yep. Yep. Wa. Wow. Dang. That's sick.
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Yeah. Holy [ __ ] I can imagine for lateral raises, chest flies. Oh, yeah. Lat pull downs. Yep. Any cable based movement.
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Yeah. Now I just feel like I wasted all my money on all that [ __ ] behind me.
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Yeah. Yeah. That's okay. You can buy more of those. So, I think this is what you mean when you said you could add double my gym.
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You just compact my whole gym into a little box. Is that what you mean?
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Yeah. It's just a magic little little box. Pandora's box. Wow. All right, man. Thanks for having me, Will.
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Thanks so much. Take care. Yeah. See you. Okay, so we got 72% overall on the gym, which I'm pretty happy about. I was expecting around like that 75 70% mark. So, a rate on the money there, but the review's
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done. Now it's time to just actually use this stuff for the first time. Oh yeah, I cannot believe I have one of these in my house. With a dialed home gym, I want to make sure my programming is locked in
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as well, which is why I use macroactor workouts to track everything. It's super customizable. You can create a program with extra focus on specific muscles.
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Choose how many times a week you want to lift, how long you want those sessions to last, and what kind of split you want to do. Then it will create the best program for you. If you want to assert
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dominance in a gym, you have to be able to press the heaviest dumbbells. So, we got to take the 120s for a spin for the first time ever. No warm up. The lighting in here is pretty nice, too. It
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makes me look 8% body fat. Nobody else with how it's curated. For each exercise, you can implement your riir, rep minimum, and maximum, as well as set timers between your sets.
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There we go. And once I lean up, I look at the dumbbell. And you know what that reminds me of? who my competition is myself.
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If you want to give macroactor workouts a try to take your training to the next level, use code will for two weeks free.
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I don't know if this is ever going to get old. I'm probably going to have my breakfast down here, have my coffee, do my work down here. Yeah, no one's really ever going to see me. I really thought I
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was going to have my own food truck before my own crazy home gym, but here we are. Full transparency when it comes to the plates, the dumbbells, the dumbbell rack, the squat rack, that is all done by Better Body. They hook me up
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completely for free. Amazing company, super high quality. I'm very happy with all the stuff. Like I think literally like the weights to me make the entire gym. So, if you guys are looking to build a home gym and you want some high
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quality stuff, make sure to check them out. I'll put them in the description. And a big shout out to Pete Major. Who is that, you might ask? It is the guy who literally built this entire basement pretty much 95% on his own. One guy. The
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guy's a beast. Like, if I was having a kid, he could probably deliver the baby also. Like, there's nothing that he can't do. So, thank you so much. Thank you, Max from Better Body. Thank you so much for everyone else who's involved in
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the video. If you're watching, means so much. What am I going to do next? Oh, baby.
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Oh yeah, no knee pain. Every machine I use is like my new favorite, but I don't know.
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This one might be This one might for sure be the favorite. It is just so smooth.
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I think a lot of you probably think because a lot of it's Atlantis that I got it sponsored. It is not sponsored. I spent a lot of money on all this stuff.
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So, this is not sponsored whatsoever. I very much paid for everything because this is my own leg press. I can put a a pillow while I do my set. Which reminds me, please subscribe. You should be subscribed because I don't know, we
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might be giving away a home gym really soon to someone who subscribes to the channel. So, hint hint, subscribe to the channel because home gym could be yours.
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Oh, this feels like a first class seat to quad gains. Yeah, look at that. wrong, bro. You know, having a gym like this and just being down here makes you reflect, well, it makes me reflect on like the start of
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me making my YouTube channel back in 2019 to now. And all the videos and hard work I put in has helped me, you know, build something like this. And obviously, I couldn't do this without all of you guys watching. So, thank you
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so much. It just this is incredible. And I I I actually have no words for how happy I am about this. But so thank you very much. And hopefully this shows you guys out there watching that, you know,
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what what might seem like a pipe dream all of a sudden might just turn into reality for you. So thank you guys so much for watching. This is my home gym and I'll see you guys in the next one.
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Peace.
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