A real gym, steps from your back door
Most home gyms are a corner of the garage or a spare bedroom that never quite works. The kit gets in the way, the floor isn’t right for heavy lifts, and the room was never built for sweat, noise or chalk dust. A converted shipping container gives you something different. A dedicated, properly built space that does one job and does it well.
We start with a solid steel shell, already weatherproof and already structural, and turn it into a room you’ll actually want to train in. Insulated so it holds heat in January and stays bearable in July. Lined and painted so it feels like a room, not a box. Floored with proper bonded rubber that takes a dropped barbell without flinching or marking. The result sits in your garden, ready the day it’s delivered, with no planning headache for a standard rear-garden gym and no months of building work.
Built by a finisher, not a fabricator
Jack spent more than fifteen years as a kitchen fitter before this, which matters more than it sounds. Fitting kitchens is precision joinery in tight spaces: getting lines straight, panels flush and finishes flawless where every millimetre shows. A container conversion needs exactly that eye. The difference between a tidy gym and a cheap-looking one is in the corners, the trims, the way the lining meets the floor and the way the door closes. That’s the part we obsess over.
Because we hold our own stock of containers, we’re not waiting on a supplier before we can start. When your build is agreed, work begins. Not a place in someone else’s queue.
What a 20ft gym gives you
A standard 20ft container gives you roughly 13 square metres of clear, dedicated floor, enough for a rack, a bench, a platform and cardio without everything stacked on top of each other. Go to a 40ft and you’ve got room for a full rack-and-rig setup, a stretching zone and storage. We’ll size it around what you actually train: powerlifting needs floor strength and ceiling height for overhead work; a HIIT or spin setup needs ventilation and airflow; a PT running clients needs space to move around them.
Mirrors go where you need to check form. Lighting is bright, even and LED so it’s cheap to run and never flickers on camera if you film your sessions. Sockets sit at working height for fans, speakers and chargers. And because it’s insulated to a real standard, not a token layer, you can train at six in the morning in the dead of winter without it feeling like a fridge.
Delivered and sited in a day
Your gym is built at our workshop and delivered finished. For most gardens we site it on levelled pad stones: no foundations, no concrete, no waiting for anything to cure. The container arrives on a HIAB lorry that lifts it cleanly over fences and walls into position, levels it, and leaves. In most cases you’re training in it the same day. If access is tight, we’ll work that out with you before delivery day so there are no surprises.
If you ever move house, it moves with you. A container gym isn’t a fixture you leave behind. It lifts back onto a lorry and comes too.
Year-round, low-fuss, yours
The whole point is that it’s ready. No subscription, no commute, no waiting for a squat rack. You walk down the garden and you’re in. The insulation and ventilation mean it works in every season; the rubber floor and steel shell mean you can be as loud and heavy as you like without worrying about the building. And it’s backed by our 5-year structural guarantee, so the shell that holds it all up is covered.
Tell us how you train and we’ll design the gym around it, then build it, deliver it and set it down ready to use.
