Exercising in a second story apartment

I'm all about the hula hoop. Its slightly weighted (maybe 1-1/2 lbs) and so its easier to keep up than the hoops we played with back when we were kids. I hooped all winter inside my apartment. You burn between 400-1,000 calories doing "hoop dance". In case you've never heard of it --here is a video of my favorite dancer, Rachael Lust. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGuvNtS5kb8
There's a ton of You Tube videos to teach you how. Best part? Its super fun. Neighbors might complain when they hear you giggle (: Good luck!

azulvioleta6 wrote: »

Anything that involves jumping up and down will not be considered reasonable use of your apartment. That is not a normal use. Eat, sleep, store your clothes--yes. Use the space as an exercise studio--no.

Other people may need to sleep during the day, work from home, etc. You may have neighbors who are elderly or ill. It's not OK for the OP to disrupt the lives of strangers.

Planet Fitness=$10/month.

the other side of that is one should understand that living in an apartment, in an urban environment, necessarily involves proximity to others and tolerating what comes with that proximity to some degree (sounds, smells, whatever).

OP seriously get some heavy carpeting or some mats (like this http://www.walmart.com/ip/TG-EVA-Foam-Exercise-Mat/23518559 ) to minimize disruption to your neighbours, and if you're going to do any kind of jumping - which I think is mostly and usually bad idea for joints, but that's neitiher here nor there; there's heavy plyo and then there's jumping jacks - jump LOW (just an inch or two off the ground) and land SOFT (better for you anyway)

Kalikel wrote: »

Talk to your neighbors and see if you all can't work out some kind of schedule that allows you to exercise without upsetting them too much.

If they can't (or won't) work with you, then screw them. If they don't want to hear activity above them, let them find a place to live where there won't be any.

It would be crazy for you to refrain from exercising because your neighbors didn't want you to do it.

Exactly. Some people need a reality check.

shell1005 wrote: »

If it is during the daytime hours, it is fine. No one is expected to be silent 24/7. I live above my landlord and I just asked her if there were hours she preferred. Go for it. There is nothing even remotely inappropriate about it.

I too live above my landlord (and his fiancee.) We agreed on quiet hours from 11 PM - 7 AM. Sometimes he complains that me going down the stairs woke him up from daytime naps, and I remind him that I am happy to use the back stairs if he would just let me know when he is napping.

@kayla_who - if you want a vigorous yoga work out, look for something that says Power Yoga, Vinyasa, Ashtanga, or Jiva Mukti. Rodney Yee is a good instructor.

I live on the third floor, and honestly do some days feel bad for doing my HIIT videos in which jumping lunges and such are required. But then I figured that as long as it was during the day, and I didn't do it for huge periods of time, they'd learn to recognize that it would be a minor annoyance and then go away. I've never had a complaint, and I've been living there over a year with different tenants below me. Now that it's summer though, I do go out and run outside more than doing my videos. I also do my workouts on a carpeted floor to cut down on the noise. And try to land softly. But don't stop working out just because your neighbors don't understand. They can't make you stop. You deserve to generate just as much noise as they can on their first floor apartment, guilt free.

When I was living in an apartment I used fitnessblender in the early morning hours to not bother my neighbors, they have low impact and quiet cardio workouts and even ones that don't have jumping. I love their youtube channel, check it out. Tons of different routines and levels.

But also, most apartments have designated quiet times like 11 am to 7am and your neighbors just have to understand that noise like that cones along with apartment living.

Laurenjenai wrote: »

Laurenjenai wrote: »

But also, most apartments have designated quiet times like 11 am to 7am and your neighbors just have to understand that noise like that cones along with apartment living.

sorry I meant 12 am to 7 am.

I'm jealous. I have to kowtow to a 7pm-7am schedule.

I'm counting the days when I can get my new place and can ditch this apartment life for good, and I can work out whenever the heck I want.