By the VERVE fit-out design teamOctober 2026
When you buy one of everything.
Graeme Holm filled a Burleigh Heads warehouse with more than 25 different Makoto machines, and that floor has lessons for anyone planning a commercial strength floor of their own.
The floor plan is on the desk and the catalogue is open in another tab. Every machine in it looks like it belongs on your floor. The budget disagrees, and so does the floor plan.
Graeme Holm co-founded Infinity Group Australia in 2013, was named Finance Broker of the Year in 2019 and wrote The Money Mentor, a book about paying off a mortgage in as little as seven years. When he fitted out a warehouse in Burleigh Heads, he bought one of everything, or near enough: more than 25 different Makoto machines, a station for every major muscle group, all in the same brown upholstery.
Laid out on a floor, one of everything turns into a useful checklist. It walks through the five decisions behind any commercial strength floor, whether you’re fitting out 150 m² or 800.
- CLIENT
- Graeme Holm, co-founder and CEO, Infinity Group Australia
- SITE
- Warehouse fit-out, Burleigh Heads QLD
- STRENGTH
- Makoto Commercial Series, more than 25 models, brown upholstery
- ALSO VERVE
- Kuro and Velocity cardio, two Tori functional trainers, dumbbells to 47.5 kg
Start with the body, not the catalogue.
A catalogue is sorted by product. Your members train by body part. Start from the second list and the first one gets shorter fast.
Write down what your members need to train: chest and shoulders, back, arms, legs and core. Give each one a station. Then add a second station wherever you expect a queue.
Graeme’s line-up is below, grouped the same way. The buttons pick out the pin-loaded machines, the plate-loaded ones and the six that do two jobs. Tap any machine for its details and price.
GRAEME’S MAKOTO LINE-UP
Chest and shoulders 7
Back 4
Arms 4
Legs 8
Core and lower back 4
Cables 1
Product photos of each model, shown in the brown upholstery Graeme chose.
Pin-loaded and plate-loaded do different jobs.
A pin-loaded machine carries its own weight stack. Moving one pin changes the load, which suits newer members, quick circuits and anyone who just wants to sit down and train.
A plate-loaded machine runs on the plates already on your floor. Strong members can keep adding weight, and there’s no stack or cable to look after.
Most floors need both, in different places. Graeme’s has a pin-loaded and a plate-loaded version of the chest press, shoulder press, seated row and leg extension, and calf raises both ways: standing on a stack, seated on plates.
Let two-in-one machines win back floor space.
Every machine takes floor space, and floor space is rent. A two-in-one, like a leg extension that converts to a leg curl, puts two exercises in one footprint.
The catch is that those two exercises share one seat. Use two-in-ones where traffic is light, and separate machines where members bunch up at peak hour.
Graeme’s floor runs six: leg extension and leg curl, abductor and adductor, pulldown and seated row, abdominal and back extension, pec fly and rear delt, and assisted dip and chin-up. Alongside them sit a separate leg extension and a separate seated row.
Keep it to one range.
A floor bought a machine at a time can end up with three frame colours, four styles of seat and a mix of logos. Each piece works on its own, and the room still looks pieced together.
One range fixes that. Every machine has the same frame and the same upholstery, from the first to the last. Makoto comes in brown as standard, with black also available.
It’s simpler to run as well. You have one supplier for parts and service, and one set of warranty terms to keep on file.
Draw the whole floor before anything ships.
More than 25 machines adds up to a lot of steel. Each one needs its own footprint, room to get on and off, space to load plates and a clear path in from the roller door on delivery day.
As a list, a line-up is easy. On a floor plan it turns into a puzzle, and it’s far cheaper to solve on a screen, where moving a leg press costs nothing, than on the day the truck arrives.
“I’d been in the gym basically or virtually 400 times before the equipment even arrived, so I was super confident once opening day came that it was gonna work really well.”
Liam Janse van Rensburg, ownerCrucible Strength and Conditioning, Sumner QLDSee your whole floor drawn in 3D before anything ships. Free, with an itemised quote, inside a week.
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Do I need to buy the whole range?
No. Most floors don’t need one of everything. The call works out which machines your members will actually use, and where they go.
What does the call cost?
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Do I need a floor plan?
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How long does a fit-out take?
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Written by the VERVE fit-out design team. VERVE designs, supplies, delivers and installs commercial gyms across Australia from its showroom and warehouse at Upper Coomera on the Gold Coast. 100% Australian owned. Graeme Holm’s floor is shown with his permission.