The home gym layout planner is a free online tool for designing your gym before you buy a single machine. Drag and drop racks, benches and cardio kit, check clearances to scale, and export your plan — completely free, no download required.
Enter your gym or spare-room dimensions in feet or metres to create an accurate to-scale floor plan.
Drag a squat rack, bench, treadmill and platform from the library into your room.
Move, rotate and resize items until every machine has clear working space. Snap to walls for precision.
Download your plan or share a link with a training partner or equipment supplier.
No steep learning curve. No subscription. Just a fast, accurate home gym layout planner that lets you get on with designing.
Place squat racks, benches, treadmills and storage with a single click. Snap to walls and to other equipment automatically.
Set your exact room size in feet or metres and every machine is drawn to scale. See instantly what fits before you buy anything.
Open the gym planner and start designing immediately. Nothing to install, no account to create, no credit card required.
Download your gym layout as an image to share with a training partner, builder or equipment supplier. No reformatting needed.
Squat racks, lifting platforms, flat and adjustable benches, treadmills, bikes and storage — sized to real-world footprints.
Every item can be rotated, resized and labelled. Test a dozen home gym layout ideas in minutes without shifting a single plate.
Planning in feet and inches? The planner has a built-in ft / m toggle, so you can draw your gym in US units from the first wall.
In a home gym, the footprint you swing a barbell in is bigger than the footprint the machine sits on. A squat rack or rig is only about 4 × 4 feet, but a lifting platform is 8 × 8. A flat bench is roughly 20 × 48 inches and a treadmill about 30 × 70. Leave 24 to 36 inches around each machine, keep at least 8 feet of ceiling for overhead pressing, and reckon on about 10 × 10 feet as the minimum for a workable spare-room gym.
The rack is small; the platform and the space to lift on it are what really shape the room.
| Squat rack / rig | ~4' × 4' |
| Lifting platform | ~8' × 8' |
| Flat bench | ~20" × 48" |
| Olympic barbell length | ~7' |
Cardio machines have a fixed deck; the numbers that catch people out are the gaps and the ceiling.
| Treadmill | ~30" × 70" |
| Clearance around each machine | 24"–36" |
| Ceiling for overhead pressing | 8'+ |
| Minimum spare-room gym | ~10' × 10' |
A gym that fits the kit on paper can still be unsafe in person — the space around each machine, and the height above the bar, decides whether you can train.
About 10 × 10 feet is the practical floor for a workable spare-room gym — enough for a rack, a bench and a small cardio corner. Draw your room first and see honestly what the space will hold.
Leave 24 to 36 inches of clear space around every machine so you can mount, dismount and swing a bar or your arms without clipping the next piece of kit. It is the single most common thing people forget.
Overhead pressing needs at least 8 feet of ceiling — and remember you add your own height plus the bar. Basements and garages are where this bites, so confirm it before you commit to a rack with a pull-up bar.
A good home gym is zoned, not crammed. Group the kit by what you do with it — lifting in one place, cardio in another, floor work in a third — so you are never dragging a bench aside to reach the treadmill. Place the biggest item first, usually the rack and platform, then build the room around it.
Anchor the room around the rack and platform — roughly 4 × 4 feet of rack over an 8 × 8 foot platform. Put it against the strongest wall, under the highest part of the ceiling, and give it the 8-foot-plus headroom overhead pressing needs. Keep the flat bench nearby but not underfoot, and leave the front of the rack completely clear so you can walk a loaded bar out safely.
A treadmill is about 30 × 70 inches, so tuck it against a wall or into a corner with 24 to 36 inches of clear run-off behind it — the space you need if you step or stumble off the back. A bike or rower slots into a similar footprint. Facing a window or a screen makes the cardio corner somewhere you actually want to spend twenty minutes.
Reserve an open patch of matted floor — even 6 × 6 feet — for stretching, mobility, kettlebells and bodyweight work. It doubles as the buffer between the strength and cardio zones, so the clearance you need around the machines and the space you train on are the same square footage working twice.
A run of mirror along one wall does two jobs: it lets you check form on lifts, and it makes a small gym feel noticeably larger. Place it where you will face it while lifting — usually beside or in front of the rack — and mark it on the plan so you leave a clean, uninterrupted wall for it.
Planning a different space? Use the planner built for it — same canvas, same free export.
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