Comfort

Sometimes the hardest part of your workout can be dealing with the hot summer heat, or the freezing winter temperatures. The best way to deal with this during the harsh climate seasons, is to purchase proper heating and cooling equipment for your garage.

Heating

The first equipment you should look at purchasing, and likely the best bang for your buck, would be to buy warm weather gear. However, the thought of working out in a cold climate can play mind tricks on you and before you know it, you're talking yourself out of working out for the day. If that's a possibility, then you may want to invest into heating equipment.

Here are some options for heating equipment

$82.32
DuraHeat 3750-Watt Utility Fan Space Heater

This electric forced air heater provides powerful heating to your work space. The tubular cabinet design of this electric forced air heater maximizes heat distribution. The EUH4000 can be portable, or it can be mounted to the wall or ceiling with the included mounting kit. Both options make it the perfect choice for job sites, workshops, warehouses, agricultural buildings, and many other heating areas. The heavy duty construction includes a stainless steel heating element, heavy gauge cabinet, built in turbo fan, and overheat shut-off.

Cooling

Cooling a garage can be difficult. It is much easier to workout to eventually become warm, but cooling off in the middle the sweltering summer heat during a tough workout may almost be impossible. The first thing people tend to do is to start removing unneccessary clothing. Just sticking to the bare essentials. The next thing is to ventilate the room, but sometimes that's still not enough. It is time to invest into some type of machinery to help ventilate your workout space using a powerful fan or even an cooling unit.

There are two ways you can help cool your workout area, besides just using a fan. I'm talking actual decreasing of temperature degrees. The first step is the use of an evaporative cooler. An evaporative cooler is a device that cools the air through the evaporation of water. A pad is soaked with water, and then warm air is forced through allowing the warm air to evaporate water on the pad, creating cooler air coming through the other side of the pad. The second step is to purchase and air conditioning unit. Both options are more expensive than going the fan route, but the A/C unit will cost 2-3 times as much as an evaporative cooler, especially when you consider the cost of electricity. Here are a few options to consider:

$129
24 in. Heavy Duty 2-Speed Direct Drive Tilt Drum Fan

This 24 in. roll-around tilt fan from Commercial Electric is ideal for garages, basements, covered patios, workshops or even warehouse and factory stations.

$497
5,300 CFM 3-Speed Portable Evaporative Cooler (Swamp Cooler)

The Hessaire 5,300 CFM Evaporative Cooler is compact in size, pleasing in aesthetics and the performance exceeds coolers of a much larger size. This performance is achieved through expanding air-intake areas to the hi-density XeL50 rigid media. These coolers have 3 media panels instead of a single panel found on most mobile coolers.

$1512
Advantage Ductless Mini Split AC and Heat Pump

The 24,000 BTU 2 Ton 20.5 SEER AHRI and Energy Star Certified DuctlessAire Mini Split Air Conditioner with variable-speed DC inverter compressor provides a highly efficient, quiet, low-cost professional solution for your cooling and heating needs without requiring any ductwork.