Re: Home Gym + 1st floor @ STE (and other engineers/builders)

damn! thanks anyway...

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what about something like this:
Bench and Lat Curl. and get barbell and weights?

how much weights do you think you can put on it?

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Like a robot?

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well how much does the equipment weigh and how much weight do you need to put on it? now think of that weight in terms of people and think how many people you can get in your flat before the floor collapses! or think about people that have pianos in their houses.

unless you're doing olympic lifts and dropping a 300kg BB on the floor you'll probably be ok. i used to weight train in the attic at my last house!

If anything, the problem won't be the load on the joists, it will be the load on the floor boards. If you have a significant load and the equipment only has small feet then the pressure on the floorboards at the feet is quite high cos everyone knows that pressure =force/area so the smaller the area the force is applied to, the higher the pressure, thats why you should lie down on the frozen lake when trying to rescue the stupid 10 year old that fell through the ice!

hope that helps!

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pip mate that helps alot!

I am more inclined to go for something like this (see pic bellow) and get some free weights..

and as you mentioned the legs are nice and long to distribute the weight...

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it should be pointed out that i'm not an engineer!

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well that weighs 104kg, plus your bodyweight 80ish kg, plus added weights probably max 80kg so your're looking at 260kg max overall.

A smallish piano weighs 200kg plus a person so they're about the same. Of course I don't know what you're joist size and span are but if it's an old house converted to a flat it should have adequately sizes joists... it won't be like the upstairs of a council house, which I also used to train in but i only benched about 30kg then (upto 35kg now)!

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even better if you keep the weights in a different corner and only load what you need!

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now you just need to persuade the missus to let you have it in the flat!

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oh she wants one as well! ;) she even wants to get an elliptical machine!

girl of my dreams Im telling ya! ;D

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