Will a home gym like pic related break through the floor when I'm doing deadlifts and shit if it isn't on ground floor? I'm going to buy one but my dad says I can only have one in the cellar if it's too heavy, tbqh.
>>35472672
Think about the strength in your floorboards. If your home is built to any decent code, it shouldn't be a problem, so long as your not putting thousands of pounds up there. Also, don't drop your weight
your dad sounds like a retard
>>35472672
Think about it
Furniture
Fridges
Cupboards
Your obese family
The.. Roof.. That second floor is holding all of that. That being said once you get to 400 never drop hard
this is now a low test thread
>>35472794
the floor only holds what stand on him.
The roof is hold by the walls.
>>35472672
Best if you can ask an architec about this.
Is it a brickhouse?
>>35472890
Yeah it's a brick house, one of those typical britbong houses
>>35472914
Do you know how much your assambly + weights will weight? and also maybe the surface area
>>35472890
>Architect
Kek architects are the art studies degree equivalent of the engineering world. Architects design. Not build. Ask an engineer, carpenter, or contractor.
>>35472952
A powerrack probably doesn't weight much, probably 90lbs/40kg at most. And then a bar for 20kg, two 20kg plates, two ten kg etc. all in all it'll be about but it'll be spread out and never at the same place for a while. I think it'll be 177.5kg if the powerrack is 40kg.
I'm currently barely out of DYEL mode, so it'll take a while until my DL reaches more than 140kg.
>>35473012
Architect also learn to calculate loads and stuff FYI
>>35473014
That is low enough.
Imagine 4 big people jumping in that room.
Would that worry you?
>>35472672
Buildings are pretty strong.
http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/king-orders-1-345-pound-man-airlifted-home-article-1.1431542
Make a lifting platform of plywood layers to deadlift on and you will be 100% fine.
The risk is not breaking through the floor, but just damaging the floor. It's not gonna break through it, though.
Op I have a setup in my second floor of house and it's fine. I used a sheet of horse stall mats mdf for when I'm deadlifting. I've got a power rack from rogue that's about 100 kgs and a reverse hyper that weighs almost the same. Also got 2 oly bars with bumpers that go up to 500 lbs and dumbbells that go up to 90 lbs.
The problem with weights is that the load comes down in a very precise spot multiple times and with high intensity, especially when deadlifting. If you want to do it on b your second floor, build a platform. This will distribute the force of impact and save your floors.
>>35473110
>>35472672
A moving weight will exact more force than a stationary weight. If you are thinking of doing snatch lifts and dropping the bar from 6 feet then you'll break the floor. Don't drop and you'll be fine.
>>35472672
>>35473014
ask yourself this, could a 140 kg hambeast jumping down to the floor on one foot crush the floor?
>>35472864
I saw this for the first time like 6 years ago.
>tfw you'll never find the sauce or who she is
>>35472672
I have one on second floor but I barely even lift so it hasn't become a problem yet.
Of course, the problem is dynamic weight (dropping 200kg on the floor), not static weight (having 1000kg lying on the floor)
If you're deadlifting you will have to put it down gently. You shouldn't be concerned so much with falling through the ceiling, but concerned shaking the fuck out of the entire building.
