That’s a good point and I should not pretend my results are typical. Especially now that I’m a little older and am having the realization that the population of this forum is even a few years older than myself
Maybe just squat once a week… at light weights. 
Its the Crossfit Injury Of The Day!
I’ve been on the fence about getting another plate for my condo bedroom gym. Rogue plates back in stock as of this morning so I pulled the trigger.
I figure even at 180kg. That’s spread across 2 sides if I put it down gently. So that’s less than my body weight, spread more widely.
My only concern is that when i actually lift. 180 plus my bodyweigh. At about 295kg plus whatever additional movement forces. Looking at 650 pounds plus…
But if you look at what causes damage to a floor in a gym, it’s always dropped steel plates etc. Not the floor collapsing under people’s feet… and the floor can easily handle me jumping up and down tho…
Figures crossed. Will report back.
I worry a bit too as I have a very open floor plan and am up to 550-ish total weight when doing deadlifts. But I think most floors can handle that kind of weight.
https://www.hunker.com/13400811/how-to-calculate-floor-load-capacity
After you’ve determined the load limit of your joists, you can use that figure to determine the total acceptable load for the room or building in question. In the example, the floor area of the room is approximately 112 square feet. With an evenly distributed live load of 30 psf, which the tables show the floor is able to support, the total weight on the floor would be about 3,360 pounds. Increasing the total weight on the floor to 4,480 pounds, however, results in a live load of 40 psf, which is beyond the floor’s load capacity.
A waterbed weighs 1500 lbs. Although it’s distributed over a wider area. But it seems like point-weight is not the issue, it’s the area of the floor failing under a total load.
I’ve got 2 layers of gym mats which also help distribute the weight. Still I’m not dropping my weights - even when my downstairs neighbor isn’t home.
When my gym owner moved to a new location, he didn’t realize there was a basement underneath. Ultimately his super-hardcore deadlifters had to go elsewhere because dropping the weights caused the whole place to shake and knock the pictures off the wall.
Well if it makes you feel better, girlfriend would have left around the time you started doing deadlifts with oly plates in the house. So there aren’t even theoretical scenarios where adding this would have been a problem.
Get in shape, get girlfriend, get out of shape. The cycle of life.
Normally true. But through stupidity I managed to make it an issue.
After a really grindy set of squats I was just completely gassed. I was still hyperventilating and just trying to feel like not dying. In this state, I decided to start taking plates off and I did the dumbass thing where I stupidly took off too many plates from one side. Predictably, the weight on the other side forcefully pulled the bar down. The bar went through the carpet and underlying floor. About 2-3 inches under.
I was a bit unlucky because my whole setup is on a thick wood platform, but the way the bar fell it just missed the edge of the platform and hit the unprotected surrounding area.
I guess the point of the story is don’t do that, and you’re probably fine.
Got the Nexus2 VR set today. Unboxed and did setup and a 15 minute trial workout. Seems fairly promising, especially for people without good year round weather. One thing that sold me was reading a Wired review where guy was doing 90+ mins of cardio a day, naked (didn’t have indoor laundry and didn’t want to stink up his place). Cutting edge tech for the same price as 150 lbs of dumbbells.
Apps are $10-30, so plan to do a bit of research before i buy some. Also, have some work to finish tonight so can’t dive in just yet.
How’s your back?
It’s feeling about 85-90% better and i could maybe lift tomorrow, but i may wait until Wednesday.
I did this once (in this story). Somehow it managed to exactly find my car key in my gym bag. It was very broken
My wife wants cheap treadmill for the winter, I want a stationary bike. We only have room for 1… mortal kombat?
I would definitely go with the treadmill, any particular reason you don’t want?
I only run when I’m being chased. Seriously, I despise running.
Have you tried brisk walking on a treadmill with steep incline? Its a fast way to get some high intensity cardio, and it doesn’t bang up the joints like jogging. I much prefer that to grinding on a bike.
Solution:
I went for a run today. First time in a long time.
Taking it easy because my hip, foot and knee are all still moving a little strangely since the broken leg 3 years back.
Replacing rowing machine for 3 weeks to try and get rid of this nagging elbow tendonitis.
Felt good. My cardio is definitely in a good place
I think I have carpal tunnel or maybe De Quervain’s syndrome basically from doomscrolling and playing Lords of Waterdeep on the laptop.
My whole thumbpad is sore and it messes with my workout. Pinching hurts the worst. But thankfully I can still do all the workouts - including dips, which surprised me.
If I could just lay off the computer for two weeks (lol) it might go away.
Could get a Nexus 2 VR set instead for $300. Having only used it once, I think it’s superior to any bike or treadmill you can get for under like $700.
