Exercise in a second floor apartment

I wouldn't bring it up with the apartment manager but maybe go visit your downstairs neighbors when you move in. Just tell them you workout in your home and if they ever think you're too loud they can feel free to tell you nicely to quiet down. If you're nice to them and they're nice people then they'll probably be understanding.

I agree, I'd talk to your new neighbors as soon as you have the chance. If they know what's going on up there, it may not seem so bad if they do notice it at all. (You might get lucky and they'll be at work while you're exercising :happy: ) Either way I'm sure they'd appreciate you coming to them with it first. Your apt. manager would probably just say if he gets any complaints you'll get in trouble.

I'd talk to the landlord/front desk about it, then greet your downstairs neighbor and just mention it. I live on the second floor and the gentleman below us has never said anything about noise, and we play a lot of video games and watch movies with friends.
But I'll have to start that relationship over in a couple of weeks when my boyfriend and I move to a larger apartment in another building over. Hopefully the new neighbors will be just as nice.

I live on the second floor in a two story apartment. Honestly, my neighbors are so freakin' obnoxious blasting their bass and speakers that what noise I do make (since not all my workout include impact) they don't say anything.

I have however gone down and talked to them. Explaining its just me working out and they understood and were just fine with it. When people live to close to one another, you are going to hear your neighbors from time to time. Just the way it works. I would just let them know and do what you can to minimize the noise.

From my experience, its not really a big deal as long as they know.

I guess I feel like a bit of noise is one of the prices you pay for apartment living. Our upstairs neighbors often sound like they are bowling in their living room. They also seem to move furniture a lot and the woman walks in her heels all the time. But I bet a lot of that noise is just normal daily activity (still not sure what the bowling sound is, though....). I sometimes hear neighbors on the other side fighting and for awhile their dog would bark for long periods of time. Yeah, it gets annoying, but we can't rightly expect our condo neighbors to be quiet little mice all the time. You workout and you want to do it in your home. That seems perfectly reasonable, daily activity to me and, provided it wasn't done too early (maybe before 6 am) or after 10 pm, I wouldn't have a problem with it.

I live in on the 2nd floor of the apartment building ..and you know I do my work, it's not that long .. just 15 to 30 minutes .. nobody complains!

I lived in a bottom floor apartment and had a rental office above me. They were not really that loud even with all the people walking around. I think that most people understand that living in an apartment is not always going to be the quietest place to live. I think the neighbors will understand especially if you introduce yourself and let them know ahead of time. Good Luck!

I've been living in my 2nd floor apartment (in a building with 3 floors) since February and I've been working out at home to DVDs or with my Wii for the entire time. I never bothered to go down stairs to see if the neighbors mind (I don't actually know anyone that lives in my building unit) but I can tell that it appears to be a woman or couple and their dogs (who thankfully don't bark). I'm pretty light on my feet when I do jumping portions of the DVD, and I figured if they really had an issue with it that they'll come talk to me about it. I don't really feel compelled since it either at 5:30pm during the week a few nights or around 11am on Sat. or Sun. It's not like it's 2am. Also, I can hear the people above me stomping around sometimes (i swear they're elephants up there on the 3rd floor) and it's just part of living in an apartment building. So as mean as it might be, I don't have much sympathy if I exercise for 30 minutes a few times a week and I have to listen to someone stomping upstairs on a much more regular basis. You get what you pay for... haha

I recently moved from a 2nd floor to 5th floor apartment. I like to work out before work, which is sometimes 6 or 7am. I try to be quiet, and never had complaints in my old apartment, but my downstairs neighbor complained about me to the office. This was a day when I worked out in the bedroom because of visitors. So I did I lighter program in the living room the next day like I'd been doing and he came up and said I was "disturbing his peace". I think the bedroom workout just made him start listening for it. The office says quiet hours are 8am-10pm

Now I feel like a prisoner who can't do turbofire workouts in the am. I am heading down to the gym today but kind of resent it since I have to deal with barking dogs, screaming babies, loud teens, etc during quiet hours (granted this is usually through an open window). Also this is an upscale condo-style community, the ceilings and wall don't seem thin at all. :grumble: