lifting in upstairs apartment
Maury Cohen
if it would be safe to consider moving to a 2nd or 3rd floor unit. I'm not
deadlifting/squatting/benching much more than 200lbs right now, but of course I
plan to increase. Am I going to end up deadlifting myself through the floor,
or is this something not to worry about?
thanks,
Maury
Keith Hobman
<maury...@yahoo.com> wrote:
If it can take a piano it should be able to take a person standing with a
loaded bar. Just don't drop the bar hard and wake up your neighbours.
--
Keith Hobman
You can put your boots in the oven, but that doesn't make them biscuits.
John M. Williams
>
> Maury Cohen <maury...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi. I'm planning to move out of my ground floor apartment, and I'm wondering
>> if it would be safe to consider moving to a 2nd or 3rd floor unit. I'm not
>> deadlifting/squatting/benching much more than 200lbs right now, but of
>> course I
>> plan to increase. Am I going to end up deadlifting myself through the floor,
>> or is this something not to worry about?
>
>If it can take a piano it should be able to take a person standing with a
>loaded bar. Just don't drop the bar hard and wake up your neighbours.
Therein lies the problem. I can see that eviction is imminent.
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Edsgar
That's entirely dependent upon the architecture of the place you'll be
living, but until your weights get big, you will typically be fine on most
lifts. Of course there's always the problem with annoying the downstairs
neigbors (e.g., when you drop a plate). They make rubber exercise mats
that deaden the noise.
With deads are you dropping the bar or easing it down? If you're dropping
the bar, that would definitely be a problem.
Maury Cohen
> kho...@sasktelNOSPAM.net (Keith Hobman) wrote:
>>
>> Maury Cohen <maury...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi. I'm planning to move out of my ground floor apartment, and I'm wondering
>>> if it would be safe to consider moving to a 2nd or 3rd floor unit. I'm not
>>> deadlifting/squatting/benching much more than 200lbs right now, but of
>>> course I
>>> plan to increase. Am I going to end up deadlifting myself through the floor,
>>> or is this something not to worry about?
>>
>>If it can take a piano it should be able to take a person standing with a
>>loaded bar. Just don't drop the bar hard and wake up your neighbours.
> Therein lies the problem. I can see that eviction is imminent.
Crap, I haven't even moved in yet and already I'm evicted.
Frank Booth
> In article <LYy29.760713$cQ3.116838@sccrnsc01>, Maury Cohen
> <maury...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Hi. I'm planning to move out of my ground floor apartment, and I'm wondering
>> if it would be safe to consider moving to a 2nd or 3rd floor unit. I'm not
>> deadlifting/squatting/benching much more than 200lbs right now, but of
> course I
>> plan to increase. Am I going to end up deadlifting myself through the floor,
>> or is this something not to worry about?
>>
> If it can take a piano it should be able to take a person standing with a
> loaded bar. Just don't drop the bar hard and wake up your neighbours.
That's a good point. My current upstairs neighbor is a fat lady with a piano.
Hopefully my deadlifting will improve faster than her piano playing.
Lee Michaels
"Frank Booth" <frankl...@spamhoo.com> wrote in message
news:QcA29.761407$cQ3.116818@sccrnsc01...
You guys can practice together!! A duiet of piano and deadlifting.
gauranteed to bring the house down.
Steve Freides
A few folks have set up something for themselves using a 4'x8' sheet of
plywood, car tires, and a rubber mat. Sounds like it might be necessary
in your case.
Of course, you'd get great exercise if you just walked all your weights
outside each time before using them. <smile>
-S-
spodosaurus
chose second floor apartments when I was a bachelor. Never had a complaint,
but I also only ever dropped a barbell once.
Ari
"Maury Cohen" <maury...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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spodosaurus
your apartment. Would that make the floor cave in? No, unless you're
living in some burnt out shell of a building with 'condemned' signs on the
entrances :-)
"spodosaurus" <stric...@yukyukyuk.com> wrote in message
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Nattyice00
when your deadlifting,
make sure that there is a girl
a floor below you, perferably
lying in a bed, so when you
crash through, you land.. well.
nevermind.
-samn
Selene
One word: deadlift platform ($1 to Wayne ;-)
Actually Steve Friedes described this pretty well, but I just had to put
in my two cents (so maybe it's only 98 cents to Wayne).
Selene
needs carbs
Adam Ridley
Ha I used to have a steroid head that wanted to kill me living
upstairs from me he would drop the weights all the time but even just
normal lifing I could hear.
Adam
Wayne S. Hill
> Maury Cohen wrote:
>>
>> Hi. I'm planning to move out of my ground floor apartment,
>> and I'm wondering if it would be safe to consider moving to
>> a 2nd or 3rd floor unit. I'm not
>> deadlifting/squatting/benching much more than 200lbs right
>> now, but of course I plan to increase. Am I going to end
>> up deadlifting myself through the floor, or is this
>> something not to worry about?
>
>
> One word: deadlift platform ($1 to Wayne ;-)
Ah, so you got the joke after all.
> Actually Steve Friedes described this pretty well, but I
> just had to put in my two cents (so maybe it's only 98 cents
> to Wayne).
<gasp!>
-Wayne
Buddee
> As an afterthought: what if two 250 pound men stood next to each other in
> your apartment. Would that make the floor cave in? No, unless you're
> living in some burnt out shell of a building with 'condemned' signs on the
> entrances :-)
True, but 500lbs resting on four legs is a lot less strees on the floor than
two legs.
Nixter.
Wayne S. Hill
>
> "spodosaurus" <stric...@yukyukyuk.com> wrote in message
> news:YZA29.531312$o66.1...@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
>> As an afterthought: what if two 250 pound men stood next
>> to each other in your apartment. Would that make the floor
>> cave in? No, unless you're living in some burnt out shell
>> of a building with 'condemned' signs on the entrances :-)
>
> True, but 500lbs resting on four legs is a lot less strees
> on the floor than two legs.
>
> Nixter.
The stress is shared among joists fairly well, both by the fact
that the flooring spans joists and because of the bridging (X-
shaped pieces between joists). Common building codes call for a
load capacity of 40 lbs/square foot of live load, but this is
set more in terms of limiting deflection than a concern over
stress. If you try DL'ing on a floor and it deflects more than
you like, you can lay a sheet of plywood down to spread the load
better. This will be most effective if you can figure out what
direction the floor joists go and place the plywood to span the
maximum number of joists. It's also better to place the load
closer to a wall than in the middle of a large room.
-Wayne
Selene
>
> Maury Cohen <maury...@yahoo.com> wrote i
> > Hi. I'm planning to move out of my ground floor apartment, and I'm
> > wondering if it would be safe to consider moving to a 2nd or 3rd floor
> > unit. I'm not deadlifting/squatting/benching much more than 200lbs right
> > now, but of course I plan to increase. Am I going to end up deadlifting
> > myself through the floor, or is this something not to worry about?
> >
> > thanks,
> > Maury
>
> Ha I used to have a steroid head that wanted to kill me living
> upstairs from me he would drop the weights all the time but even just
> normal lifing I could hear.
>
> Adam
Adam, dear, see that little dot "." down near the lower right of the
keyboard? That's called a period. And the little squiggle "," next to
it? That's called a comma. Do try to use these, they make you a little
easier to understand.
Selene
next lesson, the 'shift' key
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