Lifting Weights at home.

JM MARCONI

Ok, I just got a 140kg set of weights including the oly bar. Im just wondering if it would be safe to deadlift and squat in the upstairs of a house. Im 90kg and currently dl 105kg. Is that gonna be too much weight in one place. I dont want to end up stuck in the ceiling:D

EileenG

The floors should all be able to bear a lot more than that. Think of a double bed with two fat people in it. However, it might be no harm to get some sort of extra flooring or surface to spread the load.

My home gym is downstairs, so if I drop a weight, it lands on concrete covered by rubber tiling.

Leon11

I can just picture it now, someone like me squatting 150 and falling through my floor into the sitting room in front of my parents, of course the mother would just say "I told ye, those weights are bad for ye!:D

OP I imagine you'd be fine squatting although if your deadlifting there'd be a fair bit of noise I'd say if you were dumping the bar back down. Maybe rubber tiles and some padding for you to dump the bar?

Saabdub

I have a home gym in an upstairs room with two sets of weights, must be nearly 300kg, power rack and me (90kg) and I haven't fallen through the floor yet:D

That reminds me of a scene from the Money Pit, Tom Hanks falls through a hole in the floor and is stuck ther all night:D

Saabdub

BrianD3

OK, the floor can support a huge amount of weight if the weight is static however a moving weight is a very different proposition. Lets say you deadlift 105 kg and your grip fails suddenly and you drop the weight, you are probably going to do some damage. Even with the normal lowering of the bar there will be a knock as the plates touch the floor.

If you have a mix of plates on the bar it will be worse as the contact area will be smaller. Eg it is better for the floor to have 100 kg made up of 8 x 10 kg plates than 2 x 20 kg'ers plus a mix of smaller ones.

Even with rubber mats i wouldn't be sure about deadlifting in a upstairs room. But rubber mates will help another thing that would help is if you deadlift off a power rack where the rack keeps the plates as close as possible to the floor without actually resting on it

PS I deadlift on a carpeted concrete ground floor and if I set the bar down too suddenly radiators in that room and neighboring rooms vibrate as the shock goes into the concrete and into the central heating pipes under the floor.

rubadub

BrianD3 wrote: »

OK, the floor can support a huge amount of weight if the weight is static however a moving weight is a very different proposition. Lets say you deadlift 105 kg and your grip fails suddenly and you drop the weight, you are probably going to do some damage. Even with the normal lowering of the bar there will be a knock as the plates

If you have a mix of plates on the bar it will be worse as the contact area will be smaller. Eg it is better for the floor to have 100 kg made up of 8 x 10 kg plates than 2 x 20 kg'ers plus a mix of smaller ones.

Yep, you need some sort of buffer. I do have just 2 20kg plates in contact with the ground. I have pillows under them on wooden boards. I simply do not lift near a 1RM or to such high weights where I might go to failure.