Home gym dimensions — equipment footprints, safety zones, and the ceiling question

Cardio — the machine plus its escape zone

Machine	Footprint	Notes
Treadmill	35 × 78	plus ~78″ CLEAR BEHIND — the fall zone is not optional
Folding treadmill	28 × 64	same fall zone while deployed
Elliptical	28 × 65	pedal sweep adds height — see the ceiling note
Rower (in use)	24 × 96	eight feet of floor…
Rower (stored upright)	25 × 33	…that folds to a closet corner
Spin bike	24 × 48

The rower is the small-room cheat code: plan the deployed footprint, store the upright one.

Piece	Footprint	Notes
Power rack	48 × 48	+36″ in front to load plates; a 7′ bar spans 86″
Squat stand	48 × 30	the small-footprint rack
Lifting platform	96 × 96	8 × 8 ft, bar zone included
Flat / adjustable bench	19 × 48 · 19 × 52	lives inside the rack's zone
Dumbbell rack	48 × 20	+36″ in front — you lift OUT of it
Functional trainer	65 × 42	+48″ working zone in front
Smith machine / gym station	80 × 50 · 78 × 48	the big boxes
Yoga / stretch zone	26 × 72	a mat plus moving room

Overhead press and pull-ups want ~90″ of ceiling — a standard 8-foot ceiling (96″) barely clears it; basement mechanicals often don't. Measure your actual ceiling before buying a rack with a pull-up bar.
Treadmill + tall runner: deck height (~8″) plus head clearance — under a 7′6″ basement ceiling, check your own math.
Between stations: 24″ minimum walkway — plates on the floor make it less. Give the platform its own wall.
Flooring note: a loaded rack and dropped plates want a platform or thick tile over anything you'd like to keep.

These are the standard numbers — your ceiling, joists, and mechanicals are the real judges, which is why the honest move is drawing the room first.

Poché's Home Gym stencils carry the safety halos — treadmill fall zone, rack loading zone — so the layout argument happens on paper, free.