{"id":28695,"date":"2025-05-30T09:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T09:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=28695"},"modified":"2025-05-30T09:26:55","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T09:26:55","slug":"how-to-build-a-home-gym-in-900-square-feet-or-less","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=28695","title":{"rendered":"How to Build a Home Gym in 900 Square Feet (or Less)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mario Tarabbia visits the gym about six times a week. But he doesn\u2019t have to go far.<\/p>\n

When he moved to his 900-square-foot, one-bedroom rental apartment in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, he embarked on an ambitious renovation project.<\/p>\n

On walls beside his dining room table, Mr. Tarabbia mounted a roughly nine-foot-tall squat rack and a weight tree to hold Olympic weight plates. He added mirrors, a stationary bicycle and a TV, as well as two shelves to hold several pairs of dumbbells.<\/p>\n

In a closet near his makeshift gym, he turned an oversize meat freezer, which had no lock, into a cold plunge tub. \u201cI didn\u2019t even think to tell my landlord about all this,\u201d said Mr. Tarabbia, 36, the founder of a software company. \u201cI was like, well, I\u2019ll just ask for forgiveness.\u201d (He moved in 2022 and has been adding gym amenities ever since.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Mr. Tarabbia bought most of his equipment for his home gym online.<\/span>Marissa Alper for The New York Times<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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For many New Yorkers, commercial gyms are like apartments: cramped and exorbitantly expensive. Basic amenities, like operable equipment and clean locker rooms, seem increasingly hard to come by, and crowds at peak times \u2014 often just before or after 9-to-5 working hours \u2014 can deter even the most motivated of fitness fanatics.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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After the Covid-19 pandemic forced gyms in the city to close temporarily, some New Yorkers never went back, opting to create their own gyms at home. These New Yorkers are willing to sacrifice valuable square footage to gym equipment, all in the name of gains.<\/p>\n

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Mario Tarabbia visits the gym about six times a week. But he doesn\u2019t have to go far.When he moved to his 900-square-foot, one-bedroom rental apartment in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, he embarked on an ambitious renovation project.On walls beside his dining room table, Mr. Tarabbia mounted a roughly nine-foot-tall squat rack and a weight tree to hold Olympic weight plates. He added mirrors, a stationary bicycle and a TV, as well as two shelves to hold several pairs of dumbbells.In a closet near his makeshift gym, he turned an oversize meat freezer, which had no lock, into a cold plunge tub. \u201cI didn\u2019t even think to tell my landlord about all this,\u201d said Mr. Tarabbia, 36, the founder of a software company. \u201cI was like, well, I\u2019ll just ask for forgiveness.\u201d (He moved in 2022 and has been adding gym amenities ever since.)Mr. Tarabbia bought most of his equipment for his home gym online.Marissa Alper for The New York TimesFor many New Yorkers, commercial gyms are like apartments: cramped and exorbitantly expensive. Basic amenities, like operable equipment and clean locker rooms, seem increasingly hard to come by, and crowds at peak times \u2014 often just before or after 9-to-5 working hours \u2014 can deter even the most motivated of fitness fanatics.After the Covid-19 pandemic forced gyms in the city to close temporarily, some New Yorkers never went back, opting to create their own gyms at home. These New Yorkers are willing to sacrifice valuable square footage to gym equipment, all in the name of gains.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28697,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28695"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28698,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28695\/revisions\/28698"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}