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cportwine
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Posted: 26 June 2008 10:55 am |
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Do you keep all your exercise stuff in one place or do you have things in different rooms. Right now, I moved my treadmill to the porch. But, it is starting to get hot out. Plus, with the new stuff I have gotten I don't think it will fit back into the basement.
I was thinking about turning on of my rooms into a workout room. Just not sure where. I could do the front porch, which is nice a cool in the evenings when I workout. Or the basement which is sort of cool. I could downsize on my aquariums to make room for everything. I don't know, I just have to much #%@&!.
God, I just don't know what to do.
So, where is all your stuff at?
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Sueann
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Posted: 27 June 2008 01:14 pm |
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I am faced with the same delima. I am about to invest in an elliptical, but I have no clue where to put it.
My other stuff is scattered about the house. The humongous exercise ball is under the desk and I use it as a office chair when I am on the computer.
My weights are on the shoe wrack in the living room, and my stationary bike is in the garage. I was gonna put the elliptical in the garage with it, but it gets blazing hot down there. The only other place is my husbands office but I feel like I am invading his personal space. As it is now, i have to move a chair when I do yoga.
I had to laugh cause I have two 55 gallon fish tanks, also. What kind of fish do you keep?
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cportwine
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Posted: 27 June 2008 03:15 pm |
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I have a little bit of everything, but mostly cichlids. I have a big flowerhorn, some puffers, scats, monos, bloodparrots. Just to name a few. I have 6-55 gal tanks, two 75gals, two 30gals, one 40gal and a 10gal.
So, be carefull, it's an addiction, lol.
See, if I didn't have so many tanks I could make a workout room down in my basement. But, I don't really want to get rid of them. But, I could stand to downsize on some of them. The thing is that some of the fish I have will get fairly large and I afraid that if I downsize then I won't have a place for them when they are fullgrown. So, thats a problem.
I had to laugh at using the exercise ball for a chair. lol, I can just picture that.
The biggest problem is that I do daycare. So, I really have limited space on my main floor. I have tried to change stuff so that I could use the dinning room for some of my exercise equipment, but it just get to crowded with the daycare stuff and I don't want the kids messing around with any of that stuff.
The front porch would be ideal but the stupid windows come in at you. So, I wouldn't be able to put up blinds. Not that I am shy, it would just bother me having everyone in town see me.
I think what I will do for now, until I can figure out something better. Is to keep the treadmill on the porch and all the other stuff in the basement. I can jump on the treadmill when it's not hot and do the other stuff when it is.
Thats about all I can do for now.
How about your fish, what do you have? Have you had them long? I just had two of my older fish pass on. I was sad, but I think they were going on seven years or so. I would love to do saltwater fish, but don't think I could keep them alive. I do have two tanks that are brackish and those are fine. Except the cost of salt.
Anyway, I am writing a book now, lol.
bye cindy
Last edited on 27 June 2008 03:17 pm by cportwine
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Scoobees
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Posted: 27 June 2008 09:08 pm |
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So, where is all your stuff at?
 For me, it's a matter of where isn't it? You know how it is - you start with a few items and BAM! Our spare bedroom upstairs turned into a 'workout room' but just wasn't big enough.  Right now it houses my stationary bike, total gym (the Chuck Norris thing  ), a weight bench, 2 sets of olympic weights, bars, ez curl bar, assorted dumbbells...you get the picture.
I have my elliptical in the dining room  (perfect place huh?) along with an exercise ball, yoga mats (I don't even do yoga )...the living room has a Gazelle, 8 million exercise dvds...the basement has my broken treadmill (the motor started smelling like smoke! ), several steps for step aerobics...Gaaaaaa! I'm sure there are things I am forgetting.
You'd think with all these resources, I'd be a stick figure by now. 
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Forehunnerd
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Posted: 29 June 2008 09:08 am |
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I'm been actively working out about a week now, so all I got thus far is some light dumbbells and some resistance bands. I'm kinda afraid to think my real estate's gonna shrink, it's tight as it is, heh. I think I'd have room for a treadmill if I could ever afford one...
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cportwine
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Posted: 2 July 2008 03:51 am |
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Forehunnerd wrote: I'm been actively working out about a week now, so all I got thus far is some light dumbbells and some resistance bands. I'm kinda afraid to think my real estate's gonna shrink, it's tight as it is, heh. I think I'd have room for a treadmill if I could ever afford one...
You would be amazed at what kind of exercise equipment you can find, used. I have a very nice treadmill that I bought used from a lady that didn't use it, for only $50. Still had the film guard on the controls. So, never say never, you might just be able to afford one.
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Forehunnerd
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Posted: 2 July 2008 04:07 am |
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True, I never thought of looking for a secondhand treadmill. Might have to give it a go sometime. Thanks for the advice on that 
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BobbiMcGee
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Posted: 7 July 2008 04:59 pm |
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We moved into this house with a big garage, about 3 1/2 car size so we had a wall put in on one side, insulated the whole thing, took out a couple of overhead flourescents and put in a big ceiling fan with lights and a few light sconces on the walls. We had industrial type indoor/outdoor carpeting put in. We have a treadmill and weight machine, along with a lot of odds and ends small pieces of equipment we've collected over the years like hand weights, stability ball, stepper, etc. We added a tv and have lots of exercise tapes and dvd's. It was a good place to put our old stereo system and speakers.
The room isn't very big but it all fits and 4 big mirrors on the walls make it look larger than it really is. It also has a big front window, shaded by a large tree so it stays pretty cool in there without running in the air conditioning. We have a big floor fan also.
We had a door put in at the end of the hall, so you enter from the house and not the garage. It turned out to be pretty reasonable to have it done. We had most of the exercise equipment from our last house so we didn't have to buy that.
I think it really helps to have a separate space for exercising. You can shut out the noise from the treadmill or whatever and from the music so the rest of the household isn't disturbed. It also makes it easier not to be distracted by pets and other family members.
Last edited on 7 July 2008 05:02 pm by BobbiMcGee
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cportwine
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Posted: 7 July 2008 06:05 pm |
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Yea, as much as I hate being in the basement by myself. I think that is the way it needs to be.
I have to get rid of at least two of my aquariums. So, that should give me a little more space. Not sure weather I will keep the treadmill upstairs or not.
It will have to stay for now, cause hubby will get ticked off if he has to move it again so soon.
I don't know, I will just have to consider everything some more.
The front porch would be nice, but no air conditioning. Same with the back porch. I don't think I could fit everything in the dinning room. The basement isn't air condition, but not bad. We could put in a vent pretty easy, since the duct work is all right there.
oh geeeezzzz, this is giving me a headache.
Maybe I will work on the basement tonight and try to get it set up for an exercise/fish room. It depends on how much room I need for the new machine.
Plus, I need one of those big fan also.....
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