How to Build a Weightlifting Platform
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A beginner’s guide to building a weightlifting platform in your home. Cost: ~ $200 Time: ~ 2 hours Tools needed: drill, caulking gun, tape measure, saw or utility knife, straight edge, markers. Materials needed: 5 sheets of low-medium quality 3/4″ thick, 4′ x 8′ plywood, 1 pieces of 3/4″ thick, 4′ x 8′ stall mat, 1.75″ wood screws, heavy-duty adhesive. Inspired by Iron Mind: www.ironmind.com
@TheUnbreakableOne? thanks man.
@hydropurps
If you find a tractor supply store that carries 4×6′s, which they’ll have in stock, ask them if they can order 4×8′s. The store where I bought mine could order? a 4×8 but it would have taken a few weeks and I just didn’t want to wait.
@TheUnbreakableOne Awesome video. I am in the process of? locating all the parts needed, and was wondering if you ever found a high quality 4×8 horse stall mat. I have called all around my area, and looked online, and have not been able to find a mat that is a high quality 4 x 8.
that is a great idea, the old all-wood platforms make incredible noise, thats the one i lift on , my coach and older athletes are all? partially deaf from that wood platform, the guy doesnt hear me unless i shout my lungs out,, its fucking scary man i hope that doesnt happen to me.
legendary? bro!! Thanks for the design
@UFC737
They’re just called? horse stall mats and I bought them at a farm/tractor supply store.
This is such a great video! i? built everything and used an oak top for th actual platform. i was wondering where you bought your mats for the sides and what kind they were?
@TheUnbreakableOne? thanks
@Unrunning
Using two 3/8″ mats might be OK.?
I don’t think the way the top board is oriented really makes a difference.
On mine, there are 2 pieces of rubber on each side because I purchased the wrong size mat. I used screws on mine instead of adhesive because I knew I’d be replacing them with the right size mats in the future.
I didn’t pre-drill any of the holes as plywood doesn’t split very easily in my experience (and it didn’t during this project). Plus, that’d be a lot of extra work!
Hello, I am wondering if I can just use 3/8 inch thick rubber mats and use some sort of adhesive? like the ones used to stick the rubber onto wood and stick two pieces of rubber together to make 3/4 inch thick?
Also, for the top layer, why did you not cover the crack up with the layer and instead put it in the opposite direction again? Does it make a difference?
How did you screw in the mats? Also, when screwing in the wood, did you just screw it in the wood or did you make holes beforehand?
@mksmartialarts
I don’t do a lot of olympic lifting so I rarely drop the plates onto the platform with any real oomph. I have had 500 pounds slip out of my hands, from the top of a deadlift, and it didn’t damage the platform at all. The horse? stall mats that I used are very, very tough. As for the base of the platform, I think it’d take more weight than anyone in the world can handle to damage that layered plywood.
I noticed in the end of the video that you? have the standard Olympic weights and not the bumper power-lifting weights, do you use those on the platform? How does the platform hold up to their impacts?
Nice!?
Should have boughten? *lol* JK – excellent video!
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@illouie
I would but now it’s in? Las Vegas and I’m in Denver. I miss her though.
It looks? awesome but can you show us you actually using it?
@Brand0n4569
Add water when cutting the mat. You will absolutely be amazed. Seriously, watch your fingers!!?
@TheUnbreakableOne
Just saw the end of the? video also, thanks!
@LOKMETADASANTUNATWAI
3/4″…whatever that? translates to in the metric system.
@Brand0n4569
It’ll muffle the? sound a lot but if they’re right below you they’ll certainly still hear it. No weightlifting platform in the world will quiet it down enough to not piss off your downstairs neighbors.
@TheUnbreakableOne I’m thinking about building this in? the spare bedroom of the second floor of my condo. Will the neighbors below flipout or does it handle the sound of a weight drop pretty well?
@Brand0n4569
Yes, but a larger one that’s almost angled at the top.? It took about an hour and the edges are clean-ish.