A 300 Square Foot Garage.

We are in the “look at me” era where everyone is trying to out do eachother. Gyms try and out do other gyms by having the “nicest equipment” or the “best recovery rooms”. People on social media try and out do other people by making it seem like their life is better than others. We truly do live in the look at me, I'm better than you era.

We’ve never felt the need to compare ourselves, we’ve never felt the need for fancy things, or brand new equipment. We know what is required to be great because we’ve done it out of a 300 square foot garage.

No AC, no heat. 2 racks, got a 3rd one as time went on. Rusty weights, and benches with the padding duct taped together. Seems perfect to me. That’s where Gud performance began. Thats where training and being great was all that was on our minds. Need to run? Go in the street. Not enough weights? Throw on the sewer covers.

Where I started training was in that garage, where I fell in love with strength and conditioning was in that garage. Every day after school I would go home and enter that garage, and sometimes I wouldn't come out until mom said dinner was ready, at that point i’d have been in there for over 3 hours. Just training. 

Spring break in college Otto and I wouldn’t go to Miami, we would go to the garage, just for the love of training. I trained in that small 300 sq foot garage for 8 years before covid hit in 2020. Everything shut down, except for the Güdrage. It felt like high school again the way we were training, 3-4 hours a day, nothing else to do but train. A few of our buddies got in on the action, my little brother would come out and he’d start training with us, then a few of his friends. Quickly during that time, we had a good training crew going. 

Everyone of those guys realized what Otto and I already knew. You only need a few things to be great, and it ain’t about the equipment you have or the luxuriousness of your gym. It’s about your training crew, and your WILL, WANT, NEED, DESIRE to get better. 

Fast forward to summer 2022 and that 300 square foot garage has 6 D1 athletes training in it. My brother and some of his friends were the first group of guys that we trained. Next summer that group nearly tripled has we had roughly 15 high school and college athletes training in this garage. We cut a hole in the side of it to make a door way that led to a tent and more weights outside.

2026 we’ve never left those principles, just needed more space to help better more athletes. As I look back I reminisce on just how important that small beat up 300 square foot garage was on all of our athletic careers, and how it propelled us forward into our professional career today. 

So the next time you’re looking for a gym for off-season training ask yourself; Is it more important to train with like minded athletes who want to be great, or the color of the fuckin turf on the ground of the gym.

Get Güd.