Late last year, I decided to try to carry out an annual survey. The goal is to generate statistics based on your experiences. Because these experiences and insights are valuable to the entire European home gym community. So without further ado, here are the results from 2025 based on 40 participants.

How long have you had your home gym?

We start of with a few simple questions regarding some overall specs for the participants’ home gyms. This first diagram suggests that most participants started their home gym during the pandemic.

How big is your home gym?

Apart from the limited number of participants, there are two other things to consider here. First of, I have made the intervals pretty small. This gives the impression that home gyms <30 square meters are most abundant. But, you could also pool the intervals to show that almost 50% of the home gyms are <25 square meters. Secondly, we might be seeing “giant-home-gym-nerd-bias”. Meaning that people who follow homegymvaulteurope.com tend to represent a group of really dedicated home gym enthusiast. Therefore, the size of their home gyms might not be representative for the entire home gym crowd.

How much have you spent on your home gym this year?

One word… “Giant-home-gym-nerd-bias”.

Although, it is also in line with my suspicions. That people who opt to make a home gym are generally fairly resourceful.

Home gym equipment brand experiences

Next up we try to find out, which brands are most popular in the home gym community. Participants suggested the brands themselves. So they did not pick from a list of options.

As expected REP, ATX and Rogue were the big winners here.

Favorite home gym purchases this year?

REP PR4000 and PR5000 with or without the Ares attachment were the most common mentions. My earlier review also attests that the REP Double Black Diamond Power Bar is a brilliant barbell. And the MightyLu Foldable bench also received praise from me when I reviewed it :

• REP PR-4000 and PR-5000 with or without REP ARES 2.0
• Rogue SML-2
• Space saving Pulley Towers in general
• Nautilus Next Generation Leg Extension (he got a good deal)
• ForceUSA C10 with sliding bench
• Iron Master Adjustable Dumbbells
• ATX PRX-780
• REP Double Black Diamond Power Bar
• REP SSB
• MightyLu Foldable Bench
• Iron Master Super Bench
• Iron Master LM2000
• A Neck Harness

Biggest regret this year?

Overall the participants didn’t have many regrets this year. Many had no regrets. But here are the few regrets that people had:

• Cheap Amazon Attachments
• A copy of the Prime 4-in-1 Handles
• Atletica R8 Lever Arms
• Cybex OG Smith Machine
• Trulap Dumbbells
• Bench attachments in general

What is your main training style?

My guess is that this reflects that in general the people who mainly train body building are some of the most dedicated home gym enthusiast. Do you agree?

If not insightful, I at least hope that it was a bit fun. By the way, suggestions for new questions for 2026 are very welcome in the comments below.