DIY Fold-Out Gym | How to make a CrossFit style gym at home

part1, today we're going to make a home gym that folds out of the wall. I made this gym, because I want to experiment with CrossFit style workouts in my. home but I live in a loft, with limited space this entire structure is made. out of plywood so I started by cutting a bunch, of strips on my table. I'm going, to make the back, of the. cabinet to stay in the closed position so the. whole cabinet would be nice and strong the walls of my loft are nine feet tall so the back. of this. cabinet is going to be made by two pieces a full four by eight foot. sheet, of plyboard plus a one foot by four foot piece of ply wood after cutting. the pieces of. plywood, to length I started gluing and screwing these strips to the. two pieces of plyo that are going, in the back of the cabinet . for the second layer of strips a nature to offset, the joint so that the. back of this, cabinet would stay in a closed position and the. front, of it would be. strong the first two vertical layers of, strips are. six inches wide the last few layers are three inches wide those six inch wide. strips, are going to, be important later when I attach the chin-up bar I just. kept adding layer after, layer until I had built up enough height in the cabinet. so that all of the weight plates, could be covered I mark the location for. the one and a quarter inch diameter holes that are, going to hold the dowels I gave the cabinet a, light sanding. before painting the edges I'm doing this now because once the cabinet is installed it'll. be, a lot harder to get to the edges the studs in my wall are. 16 inches on center, and the interior is 4 feet wide so I have the. opportunity to attach the cabinet to three, separate studs I use my Rio V stud. finder to find the locations of the stud studs and I, use the level to mark. line so I knew where to prop up the cabinet before securing it, to, the. wall with three inch long screws I use two angle brackets I cut, some short pieces of dowel to fit into the holes which. will hold the shelf, brackets that I got from Rockler these brackets. are the reason why the first few layers of vertically, oriented plywood are six inches. wide that gives me the. height I need for the. drawbridge, panel I glued four inch wide strips of half-inch plywood to the perimeter of this, drawbridge panel I purposely left off to the bottom of the plywood I glued the bottom strips of. half, inch plywood on the walls. cabinet part so that, the drawbridge was installed I could measure to. see how long I needed that last piece to be I was. then able to finish the frame for the rest of the, drawbridge and glue the center, lifting platform. into place we painted the inside of the drawer and then install the latch that. will, keep the drawerbridge up to the wall cabinet I am using rigid conduit to make. the cabinet I use rigid conduit I cut. three inches of 3/4 inch, plywood and glued, these pieces together and got ready to start painting everything I blew them. screwed this hinge piece, to the, wall cabinet and installed the hinges I used my. drill and jigsaw to cut holes, into these pieces of the hinge I then use. my drill and. my palm router from b.o.b to recess the hinges a little bit this will, just help. make sure that the drawer, of this drawbridge will, sit flush up to. it and install the hinges now that, I'm done with the drawingbridge I use a heavy-duty shelf, to hold up these. angle brackets to the ceiling joist I then added more strips of Plywood to cover up these two, inch wide holes that I cut in the holes I then used. my laser cutter to mark the. location of the brackets I used the V stud in my gym/ig still try make still. make. this. bar I used a. drill to he type of this bar I have been using a basic. drill out of this box I have a box that I use as a draw bar I bought basic. bracket brackets, that box I use this box as a. draw bar so that I could use that draw bar to. hold up the bar I use some, large plywood that I have cut. 3 inches wide to hold this bar so I could attach it to the walls. I have added a box of this type of box I could hold it up to my. town that I'm using this bar to hold it. will also serve as a pad for protecting my floors when I'm throwing, heavy weights. around