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Podcast: The Garage Gym Experiment Podcast
Episode: Equipment designing, patents, predicting the future, and more with Gavin Laird (Equipment Design Consultant)
Description: Gavin Laird is an Equipment Design Consultant with over 20 years of experience. His current designs include the Hip Thrust Bar, GLS Jammers and accessories, Bench Buddy, Crane Bar, Husa-Sled, G-Sled, Multi Yoke, and the Deadlift Training Station.
We started with how he began and ended with chatting about the future.Â
(0:23) Intro
(2:50) His gym and first creations
(4:32) First designs for others
(6:05) Favorite designs?
(9:04) Time of design
(11:01) Patented designs being used in other countries
(14:47) Failed products and % of designs created that work
(20:11) Time management
(24:20) Changes in strength training/home gym in recent years
(28:37) Following five years for fitness te...