Welcome to my little corner of the Internet. I created Garage Gyms with the goal of making this site a great resource for all things garage gyms and home fitness. I want to try to bring all of the good information that’s available out there about garage gym gear and equipment and home-based workouts to one place. I like to discuss things to avoid and money-saving projects that others have found success with – and so much more!
One of the best things that I ever did for my own personal fitness journey was to abandon the global-gym and invest in my own strength-training equipment. I don’t wait in line to use the power rack at the gym anymore, I don’t have to drive to and from the gym, and the best part is that my initial garage gym equipment has already paid for itself in saved gym dues.
Even though I technically have all I need, I am always trying to improve my personal gym with additional or upgraded equipment, or by finding better use of the limited space that I have. I like to see what other people have done with their garage gyms and get ideas from them.
I love my gym. I intend to continue to research how to make it and my workouts better, and my goal is to share the things I learn here with anyone else who is interested. So enjoy my articles and equipment reviews. I hope you pick up at least a little something new that you didn’t know already. And if at any time you feel like contributing by adding some comments, please feel free. Or, if you would like to suggest an article that you’d be interested in seeing on the site, you may do that as well.
If you do learn anything even remotely useful while you’re here, I would greatly appreciate you giving me an Instagram follow, a tweet, or a share in any form to someone you believe would benefit from my content. It is hard to get the word out without having to pay for it, so any help in that department is always appreciated.
Reviews, Guests, and Advertising
If you are interested in having a piece of equipment reviewed; or you think you can make a contribution in the form of an article; or you are interested in partnering for advertising, you may contact me below. Please have spent enough time browsing the site to get an idea of what would be appropriate to review, share, discuss, etc.
Before you offer equipment for a review, understand that your providing me the equipment will in no way influence the outcome of the review itself. I’m not selling reviews here. If you’re trying to pass junk off to me; or worse, unsuspecting customers, know that I am the wrong guy to send your equipment to.
To my readers…
The majority of the equipment that I review is purchased by me at full retail price. I am not generally offered a discount, nor do I ask for one. I buy my equipment the same way you all do – online with my credit card.
However, there have been; and there will no doubt will continue to be; instances in which I am sent equipment for the purposes of a review. I am very upfront and clear with any and all manufacturer’s that I will review the item as though I did pay for it with my own money. I don’t care if it’s a $200 barbell or a $5000 power rack. I feel as though I have a duty to my readers to always be genuine and honest. I do well enough on affiliate commissions to not feel the need to sell out my soul for a free piece of equipment I don’t even need anyway.
Unlike many of my colleagues in the strength equipment review industry, I have not once in my ten years of doing this been paid for a review. Not once; not one cent. Once again, I am completely content with and grateful for what earn from affiliate links and the Garage Gyms store.
If ever the time comes that I’m offered so much money to do a review that I’d be absolutely insane to say no, you can rest assured my policy about reviewing the product as though I’d paid for it myself will remain unchanged, and I will disclose that I was paid to all of you. Not that I expect that to ever happen!
Comment Policy
Your opinions are your opinions, and you are entitled to those opinions whether we agree or not. I do not filter comments based on whether or not I like what you have to say or not. I do filter out comments that are spammy, unrelated, malicious, ignorant, or crude.
All that said, this site gets a decent amount of spam every day and I’ve had to enable some minor annoyances in order to keep that spam in check. In addition to a Comment Captcha, I have a third-party spam filter. This filter asks me to moderate the first comment from every new contributor, and any comment that contains a URL. You are allowed to include URLs to products in the comments, but I will have to manually approve it. Any comments containing your affiliate or advertising links will not be approved, and will probably get you banned from future comments.
Email field: In order to avoid having to wait for your comment to be moderated after you’ve already successfully commented, be sure to use the same email address that you used the first time that you commented, and leave the URL field blank.
URL field: You may input your website address into the URL field if your URL is somehow related to the fitness/strength training industry. Do this only once please, and only use the root domain. No redirects, no affiliate links, and please link only once site-wide. I leave this field enabled as a courtesy. Garage Gyms is not a linkfarm.
Questions?
Yes, you can ask me questions if there is not an appropriate article for you to comment in. I love helping, and will answer any email that isn’t incomprehensible, spammy, or personal in nature. Try to keep it reasonably to the point though as I do get my fair share of emails.
Supporting Garage Gyms
I created the Garage Gyms Store in response to readers trying to donate to the site. Years ago when this was coming up regularly I was very uncomfortable having a Patreon; or any-thing similar to Patreon, so I compromised by creating the store. Now, when someone feels a desire to support this site monetarily, they’d have to receive something in return! I offer t-shirts, gym banners, stickers, hats, and even a fancy Yeti tumbler.
Since times have changed somewhat and having a way to contribute to a site or an online persona/influencer is not seen as unusual or me being a beggar, I also created an account at BuyMeACoffee where those who feel like showing appreciation for the site’s content can drop a few bucks into the Garage Gym fund. This completely new and still mostly unknown so don’t be surprised if you’re the first to donate!
I still prefer to have contributions made through the store, but now both options do exist. I want to add that whether you buy a shirt, buy me a coffee, or do nothing at all, I love and appreciate all who have supported me over the years. Thank you thank you!
