Destroy your house lately???

dogonyx

dogonyx

Cathlete
No matter how hard I try to work out softly, I still tend to be a bit harsh on my floors.

The neighbors called the police on me twice last week. The first time, they thought I had elephants lumbering around my house. (Our subdivision isn't zoned for zoo animals.) In reality, it was just me doing plyo-jacks. The second time, they thought I was having illegal sumo-wrestling in my living room. It was just me doing those "squat jumps" in Cardio Kicks.

OK, the above is just a joke but the floors in the two rooms where I work out squeak and squeak and squeak now. When I want a quick workout, I jump around the floor and try to squeak out the Star Spangled Banner.

Beyond the squeaks, my only other damage includes nails popping up under the carpet while doing step aerobics in the bedroom and the carpet becoming bald under my (Reebok) step. (Unless you count the salt damage to my recliner where I crash my sweaty body when I'm through working out.)

Just wondering if any of you had any good stories about "house-al" damage. Maybe a dumbbell through the drywall???

Anyone reinforce their floors or anything else to protect from damage? (My dad always thought I was going to crash through the floor when I lived at home.)

Shelley :-jumpy
 
Hi Shelly,
I can't say that i have.But six years ago I had a baby(not a baby now) and I got out of doing aerobics.Then when I got back into it..I was going to college and living in a one bedroom basement apartment.So I did aerobics in the kitchen cause the living room and the kitchen were pretty much one big area.(Well, not really big..but one area)
Then when we moved I did aerobics in a living room but the carpet was already damaged but you could see my sweat drips on the floor.(Always nice when you have company over)
And finally I got married in October and now we have our own home and I was like wow...I have this huge family room to do aerobics in.I can shuffle and mobo my way all over this place.
But i come home from work one day and my new husband has me moved in to the laundry room, where he has a t.v hanging from the ceiling.And he thinks that this is just great cause now I can't ruin the carpet in the family room. So i am not aloud to do any damage to my house.And luckily i am in the basement because my mom always use to say that me and my sister walked like elephants..so i can only imagine what a elephant would sound like doing aerobics.
But i have kicked the dog a few times by accident...didn't know he was there....
take care
Lori
 
When I started doing "Cathe" a year ago, I needed more room. I used my dining room which had a light blue carpet that we put down new in '95. It still looked like new before I started working out on it, but in 3 months you could see the wear, big time. Hubby redid the whole house and moved me out to the garage. He carpeted it in dark green indoor/outdoor, got me a 6x12 livestock mat and a regular mat for underneath. Plyos are a breeze now...:D
So ruining my dining room actually paid off in the end. Now I have the entire garage as my workout room.....hubby built a new garage for him....lol.
Barbell hit the wallpaper as I was carrying it upstairs and I had to redo the entire hallway AND up the stairs. THis was because the paper was no longer available, so I couldn't just patch the damaged part.....
(I think wallpaper manufacturers do this on purpose so that we HAVE to redo the whole thing...lol)
$20,000 (?)later.........ha ha ha

Wanda
 
I knew it was time to move my working out to the basement when the carpet in front of my TV in the living room where I worked out turned BLACK! :eek:

Seriously, with all the jumping, shuffling, stepping, sit upping etc, that goes on, it's no wonder I just about ruined the carpet! I workout on foam block flooring now, and it is wonderful. I wonder how in the world I stood that hot, sweaty carpet for so long!

Jeanne :)
 
I used to own and run and live in an older small brick apartment complex. Once my daughter was first doing step aerobics in her room and made quite a bit of noise because she gets to having too much fun and stomps too hard. Then something about all the jumping up and down and stomping causes the floor to shift and she couldn't get out of her room. I was trying to help her get out by taking full body lunges at the door and all sort of other unsuccessful manuvers. About the time I got the door open the police showed up at the door. The neighbors had called them :-rollen.

Ah, to exercise.

Edith
 
Thanks for your great responses. At work one day, we were stuck waiting for someone to show up so I logged onto Cathe's forums and my co-workers and I were rolling as we read about the mishaps in this thread.

Still smiling about it,
Shelley :)
 
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