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Training · · 3 min read

There’s a website for mapping home gyms. Who knew?

Thousands of lifters have catalogued their garages, basements and sheds, plate by plate. Now someone is rebuilding them in 3D.

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JustGains

A map of North America covered in green Gym Radar pins, dense across the eastern United States and the West Coast, with a few in Canada, Alaska and Hawaii
Every pin is somebody’s garage, basement or shed.Screenshot: gymradar.com

There’s a website dedicated to mapping and sharing home gyms across North America. Who knew? It’s called Gym Radar, and it comes from the team behind Massenomics. You make a page for your gym, add photos and list everything you own, down to the fractional plates. Then you browse everyone else’s: garages, basements, barns, sheds and the occasional living room. More than 2,200 gyms are on it so far.

The gym pages are the best part. Guns Powerlifting Club is a 10 by 20 foot shed in North Carolina with the motto “No heat, no AC, no problem.” Basement Barbell in Rhode Island lists 191 pieces of equipment, including more than 40 barbells. And the Salty Goat in Ohio offers this:

“When the neon is lit be prepared to be wowed by a 40-something dad squatting to pop punk.”

Salty Goat Garage Gym, on Gym Radar

Then someone rebuilt them in 3D

Web developer Wes Bos saw all that data and did the obvious thing: he built a 3D gym builder with Claude and started recreating real Gym Radar gyms, part by part. Racks, plates, dumbbell walls, belt squats, even the pegboards. It went from first commit to more than 500 parts and a gallery of rebuilt gyms in about five days.

Photograph of Basement Barbell: a white six-post power rack hung with chains and bands, black plates stored on the uprights, banners on the walls and exposed silver ductwork on the ceilingThe same gym as a 3D render: the white six-post rack against the back wall, plate trees, a combo rack on a platform, a curved treadmill and a long dumbbell rack on grey flooring
Basement Barbell, real and rebuilt.Photo: Basement Barbell via Gym Radar. Render: gym.wesbos.com

There are eleven in the gallery so far. Each one credits the owner and links back to the real gym, and you can open any of them in the builder and start moving things around.

The No Whine Cellar rendered in 3D: an orange power rack, orange yoke, plate trees in red, blue and yellow, strongman implements and a rower on black flooringFE Strength Lab rendered in 3D: a black six-post rack with cable stacks in the middle of a large pole barn, with strongman kegs, stones and a yoke around itCable Compound rendered in 3D: a garage bay packed with black cable crossover rigs, weight stacks and a belt squatGuns Powerlifting Club rendered in 3D: a grey rack in a narrow shed with plates stored on the wall behind it, a cable tower in the corner and a combo rack by the doorScottsdale Garage Gym rendered in 3D: a long red rig down the back wall of a three-car garage, with selectorized machines and plate storage in front of itErik Mains’s Gym rendered in 3D: a long, narrow room with a folding rack on one wall, plate-loaded machines across the aisle and a platform at the entry
The No Whine Cellar, FE Strength Lab, Cable Compound, Guns Powerlifting Club, Scottsdale Garage Gym and Erik Mains’s Gym.Renders: gym.wesbos.com

Our favorite is Coop’s basement from Garage Gym Reviews, which comes with a turf lane, monkey bars and a desk.

A 3D render of a large basement gym: a green PLAE turf lane beneath a line of monkey bars and rings, a long wooden beam, ceiling fans, a three-bay black rig on the far wall, machines, a curved treadmill, storage shelving under an American Made banner and a desk in the foreground
Coop’s Basement Gym, all 103 parts of it.Render: gym.wesbos.com

Fair warning: both sites are a great way to lose an evening. Find a gym like yours, open it in the builder, move the bench a few inches to the left. Then go train in the one you’ve got.

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