Winner of the 2011 Reebok CrossFit Games Open, Dan Bailey splits his time between CrossFit Legacy and his own garage gym. Get a peek into Bailey's personal gym at his family's home in Uniontown, Ohio. One of the bald patches on Bailey's lawn is where he has trained long hours with a heavy kettlebell. Bailey admits the kettlebell was a weakness coming out of regionals last year, so he bought the 70-lb. bell and told himself, "Now that's all you get to use." Bailey's backyard training ground also includes a wooden pull-up bar complete with exposed nails to test "the accuracy component of CrossFit." Using what he has on hand, Bailey's outdoor "plyo boxes" are stacked landscaping beams. Inside the garage, Bailey shows off his equipment, including a Rogue yoke. But it's his homemade gear that shows how important functionality is to the former sprinter. He constructed a plyo box with his father, hung a plumber's pipe for pull-ups and rings, and bound together wooden planks lined with scavenged tire rubber to protect the concrete floor during Olympic Lifting. He also created his own bumpers using spare tires filled with sand, and he filled a basketball with sand for his wall-ball.

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