Got told that I can't exercise in my apartment anymore...

You know, that is just part of living in a bottom floor apartment. You can not be expected to tip toe around your own home. I would talk to the landlord about the neighbors complaint and tell them exactly what the noise is and that you will not be changing your routine. No one will be telling me what I can and can not do in my own home.

So true!!!! Get a big wheel or rollerskates and go to town on them! It's not like you're partying at 3am in the morning. Workout and look awesome as you walk downstairs to them glaring at you.

You can also move your workout area to another room of your apartment not directly above where that person would be at 3 pm. Also, if you locate a place of your floor that is on top of a large beam used to give structure to the building, or sometimes nearer to the walls, that would be less squeaky and more stable.

Talk to your landlord you are allowed reasonable enjoyment of your living quarters and it was 3pm, not 3am.

your neighbours are in the wrong, don't stop!

exactly! thats crazy! your allowed to live in your own home,and to live healthy at that >:(

I currently live in a second story apartment (note, this is the fifth apartment complex that I've lived in where I have had people below me ... zero complaints until now). I was in the middle of doing my workout when the people who just moved in downstairs told me that they don't want me working out in my apartment because it's too loud. I was doing this at 3:00 in the afternoon by the way.

Anyway, I have 12 months left on my lease and I don't want to be in a war with them for another year, so I feel obligated to stop... but now I don't know what to do! I'm a pretty broke full-time student, so I can't afford a gym membership. I'm two weeks into Insanity and feel like I have to quit, which makes me pretty bummed. I know that I can still do free weights, but that honestly feels like it. Do you guys have any advice on how to deal with this? I live in Florida and it's about to be summer time, so running outside is pretty much not an option.

You are not obligated to stop. The only thing you are obligated to do is not make outrageous amounts of noise during sleeping hours. Unless the people downstairs have some sort of authority over you I'd keep on working out. To remain neighborly just think of a nice way to refuse their request.

What he said. You have every right to move around in your apartment during the day. Make a point to always be nice and neighborly (as best you can) but continue your routine. It is up to them to report the issue to the landlord to resolve NOT for them to resolve it with you.

actually landlords usually prefer you to talk to your neighbors first.. however if that doesnt work or if they acted in a way that makes you think it will go no where I would just talk to the landlord.. maybe they can mediate? pretty sure its not illegal to workout in the middle of the afternoon... lol we had people kinda like this but they got mad when i walked in quietly at night after work (it was quiet too for sure since i didnt wake up my son or husband if he was asleep) and they always flipped. if you cant handle people above you move into a top floor.. or a townhome (thats what we did to get rid of the outside stairs and the noise :-) )

Maybe you should take up the trumpet. Play it loudly and badly for at least 4 hours a day and when she complains about the noise that makes, offer to give up the trumpet if you can do exercise instead! Lol.

I lovd this idea.. Lmbo..

Your neighbor sounds like a complete b*tch. TO THE MATTRESSES!!

I know how being a broke college student is, but if there is a planet fitness near you, you can get the basic membership for 10 bucks a month with no contract.

Talk to your landlord you are allowed reasonable enjoyment of your living quarters and it was 3pm, not 3am.

your neighbours are in the wrong, don't stop!

so, her neighbors aren't allowed to enjoy their own apartment in quiet if that's what they want? Last time I checked, things like that work both ways - her neighbors are also allowed reasonable enjoyment of their living quarters, & if the person above them exercising is bothering them, then they have every right to complain

Also, people don't all work 9 - 5. Some people work the night shift & have to try to sleep through the day.

ETA: This is a touchy subject for me, as I lived under a child for 4 years (couldn't afford to move) that I swear was fed a diet of pure speed or something... this kid would run from one end of the apartment to the other from 7am until around 11pm or later, & NOTHING could be done about it (we even asked that they just keep her out of the bedroom directly above ours, so we could sleep, because we were both working night shifts at the time, but no luck)
Due to this, I've now got noise sensitivity issues. I live in a quiet apartment, but on the rare occasion that my neighbors are annoying me, I put my headphones on & blare white noise.

I have to agree with a lot of what you say here. I always ask specifically for a second story apartment because I don't want to live under noisy neighbors. That said, when I did live over someone, I tried to take note of when she was at work so I could work out then and not disturb her.

I say the OP should ask the neighbors what time they're at work/gone etc and try to accommodate that if possible.

It's just a fact that living in an apartment requires you to be more considerate of others than if you lived in a house. I don't think it's right to just say "Eff them!"

I was beginning to think I was the only one with this opinion
It bugs me when people are all 'oh, you're completely in the right, ignore the fact that you're annoying the people around you & keep doing exactly what you're doing'
no, that's not what apartment living is about. if you want to have that attitude, you need to have your own house (& not play your stereo so loud your neighbors can hear it 4 doors down). Noise going into someone else's living space isn't fair to the person who doesn't want that noise, a person who is paying rent just like the person causing the noise. If the person living under the OP feels that the noise is unreasonable, it's not fair to make her live with it. I agree that a compromise should be found (like the OP working out at a different time, or in a different room, or something), but people saying 'do it in cowboy boots' obviously have no respect for people who live around them.

As for apartment living - you either get to jump around all you want in your apartment (& deal with upstairs neighbors), or you get to not have anyone living above you (& have to be considerate of the people you have living beneath you). You can't exactly have it both ways. It would be nice if people were more considerate, so living under someone wasn't a thing to be specifically avoided

Apartment living is pure hell -- for all involved. You're well within your rights to work out, but it seems like she's going to make your life a bit of a nightmare if you do. The last thing you want to do is develop a bad relationship with someone who can affect your life as much as a bad neighbor can. At least if she's expecting quiet from you, then she probably won't feel justified in cranking her bass up or placing her surround sound speakers on the ceiling.

You pay rent to and you have the right to enjoy your home. Keep doing what you do and totally ignore them!

I understand your frustration, but I don't think what you're describing is the case here at all. Exercising for 40 minutes a day is not unreasonable, nor is walking, which the neighbor apparently complained about as well. It's pretty clear (to me anyway) that the neighbor (assuming the OP is accurately describing the situation) is merely over sensitive. Both parties have the right, if you want to call it that, to enjoy their respective spaces, yes. However, that doesn't mean bowing to ridiculous demands (i.e. don't exercise or walk normally). Still, I do agree that the OP should not go out of her way to be extra obnoxious as others have suggested.

Talk to your landlord you are allowed reasonable enjoyment of your living quarters and it was 3pm, not 3am.

your neighbours are in the wrong, don't stop!

so, her neighbors aren't allowed to enjoy their own apartment in quiet if that's what they want? Last time I checked, things like that work both ways - her neighbors are also allowed reasonable enjoyment of their living quarters, & if the person above them exercising is bothering them, then they have every right to complain

Also, people don't all work 9 - 5. Some people work the night shift & have to try to sleep through the day.

ETA: This is a touchy subject for me, as I lived under a child for 4 years (couldn't afford to move) that I swear was fed a diet of pure speed or something... this kid would run from one end of the apartment to the other from 7am until around 11pm or later, & NOTHING could be done about it (we even asked that they just keep her out of the bedroom directly above ours, so we could sleep, because we were both working night shifts at the time, but no luck)
Due to this, I've now got noise sensitivity issues. I live in a quiet apartment, but on the rare occasion that my neighbors are annoying me, I put my headphones on & blare white noise.

I have to agree with a lot of what you say here. I always ask specifically for a second story apartment because I don't want to live under noisy neighbors. That said, when I did live over someone, I tried to take note of when she was at work so I could work out then and not disturb her.

I say the OP should ask the neighbors what time they're at work/gone etc and try to accommodate that if possible.

It's just a fact that living in an apartment requires you to be more considerate of others than if you lived in a house. I don't think it's right to just say "Eff them!"

I was beginning to think I was the only one with this opinion
It bugs me when people are all 'oh, you're completely in the right, ignore the fact that you're annoying the people around you & keep doing exactly what you're doing'
no, that's not what apartment living is about. if you want to have that attitude, you need to have your own house (& not play your stereo so loud your neighbors can hear it 4 doors down). Noise going into someone else's living space isn't fair to the person who doesn't want that noise, a person who is paying rent just like the person causing the noise. If the person living under the OP feels that the noise is unreasonable, it's not fair to make her live with it. I agree that a compromise should be found (like the OP working out at a different time, or in a different room, or something), but people saying 'do it in cowboy boots' obviously have no respect for people who live around them.

As for apartment living - you either get to jump around all you want in your apartment (& deal with upstairs neighbors), or you get to not have anyone living above you (& have to be considerate of the people you have living beneath you). You can't exactly have it both ways. It would be nice if people were more considerate, so living under someone wasn't a thing to be specifically avoided

I mean, don't get me wrong, I understand what it is like to have crappy people living above you. I had to back out of my last lease because the girls above me would party until 4am three-five nights a week and I couldn't deal with it. However, I really don't think that I am asking for something unreasonable. I'm not blaring music. I'm not having 234 people in my apartment. I am exercising for 40 minutes a day, during the middle of the day. I would maybe even be perfectly okay with stopping that completely but she also complained that she can hear my dog jump off of the couch, that my floorboards squeak too much when I walk around, and other things that I cannot help. If she didn't want to hear any noise from above her, she should have moved into a second story apartment. I know for a fact that there are some available because when I was in the office waiting to talk to somebody, a 2nd floor apartment was getting shown to somebody else!

Honestly, I agree with the other posters in the sense that she's being unreasonable (especially with the dog comment - WTH?)
BUT, with that said, people saying that she doesn't have a right to enjoy her living space because she lives in the basement just p*ss me off. Basement apartments are generally less expensive, & if I could afford to I would completely live on an island, miles away from all human contact ;D
(In my situation, I KNOW I'm unreasonable, & I've only complained to my upstairs neighbors twice - both before 8am, & both times they were listening to music so loudly that I could name the song in my bedroom, with the door closed, & it wasn't directly above me)

You pay your rent. Everyone knows if you take a bottom floor apartment your gonna hear the people above you. It's their problem. If you want to be nice then ask them would be a better time, but if that doesn't work, mention to them they might want to get out for an hour or two around that time.