I might turn half my bedroom into a gym

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I'm thinking to turn half my bedroom into a gym i was going to do it in my spare room. Which is a good size. But DS has now decided he wants that room. That leaves his current room spare which is about 7ft ×8ft. So i wouldn't get much in there. I also have an exercise bike treadmill and cross trainer. I just want to add a multi gym.. then i maybe be able to tone up and get rid of my horrible bits

There's a way option of saying no to the swapping bedrooms

Have you thought about joing a gym?

I workout in my garage so I'm a massive fan of working out at home. But I don't think a bedroom would be the best spot. I get sweaty, and I need space for a mat and weights. Would your joists support all that equipment and you doing burpees? What happens if you drop a dumbell?

(assuming the bedroom is upstairs?)

Ok

Not sure you can treadmill upstairs

Well

a) you don’t have to allow him to move rooms

or

b) could you use the smaller spare room to sleep with bed and bedside table. Then have your current bedroom as a gym/office/dressing room? If it’s big enough for bedroom and gym surely it’s big enough for multi purpose room without a bed?

Working out on the ground floor is better. I’d worry about damaging the floor/ceiling.

Do you use your exercise machines at the moment?

Are you one of those people (I am) who thinks buying equipment or joining a gym is the first step to fitness?
You can do anything you need at home with very little equipment and you don’t have space for all that stuff.
A mat. Some free weights. One good cardio machine (rower is best all round and can be folded but just keep the cross trainer). Then maybe a bar in doorframe. It would be really annoying to work out in a tiny upstairs room with too much stuff in it.
Get rid of things rather than buying more stuff.

We have a gym at home, treadmill, rowing machine and adjustable weights. There's no way I would consider having these anywhere but the ground floor, I'd be concerned about damage to the floor.

I think it would be really selfish of me to make him have a smsll room . So that I can have a gym. And leave him with a really small space

I don’t think a bedroom gym is a great idea but equally you don’t have to give up your bedroom for your kid.

I don't like being round lots of people

It’s quite normal for children to have smaller bedrooms than their parents.

I would worry about having an upstairs gym, but I sympathise with your not wanting to go to a gym. I used to, purely motivated by the need to improve my health, but the people, the lights, the music, the lack of instant access to machines, all did it in for me. Do you have any space downstairs?

Also, my neighbor has a garden room for this purpose, any chance you could do that?

How old is he?

I’m in a first floor flat and there’s no way I’d have that amount of equipment in one room. I worry about using my walking pad sometimes and that’s really lightweight.

What I’ve found has made the biggest improvement to my wobbly bits is doing Couch to 5K and getting out running a few times a week combined with some free weights. None of which needs any interaction with people other than a nod or wave to other runners.

We had a multi gym in our garage - with all the weights there's no way it could be in an upstairs bedroom! The installation guide said it should be on the ground floor if installed in a house. For a while there was a treadmill upstairs and it was bloody annoying if you were watching TV downstairs to hear the noise of the motor and the thudding of someone running.

I don't think your bedroom could take the weight of all the equipment you propose...

I agree with PP, it’s not a great idea to have the gym upstairs.

Theres no way i want that tiny room as my bedroom. Plus its 0n the 2nd floor. Also. Its kind of busy on that floor kids gaming music general kid noise. 1st floor is more quite. Probably doesn't make much sense . I just know it doesn't work for me.

I would look into the weight of the items. The multi gym I'm looking at is 88kg thats not overly heavy.. bike is 49.1kg cross trainer 52 kg.

Apprently if i don't have the items all in one spot and have think ply board or similar. It would spread the weight out better.

But his siblings have a bigger room than him. I would be stopping him having equal to them. I may talk to him though.

Yeah i hate being round people a gym is my worst nightmare. I don't have space down stairs. I only have living room and kitchen. I do have my bike in the living room. And criss trainer in the hall. Im trying to make my living room look nice. But it just looks shit with a bike stuck in there.