Redesigning my workout room, and why


I just did the first major redesign of my workout room in many years. The logic for this has to do with how annoying I found moving my heavier dumbbells off of the racks was, positioning them on the floor, and then racking them up again. So I'm leaving them on the floor. The heavier weights will just live along the edge of the east wall of that room. If I need something from the closet, like my tennis racquet, I'll just have to step over the dumbbells, or on them.

I press from the floor, so all I gotta do to get them in position is roll them over a bit. Then I tip them up so that they stand on their own, I squeeze myself between them (being careful not to knock them over) lie down, use a leg to kick them up into position, take a deep breath, and then press. And repeat. I like to do between 5 and 10 reps. When I'm done with the weights I just have to roll them back over to the wall. Easy on the lower back, which is my main concern nowadays!


The lighter weights will stay on the racks, and since both dumbbell racks are now on the same side of the room I now have more leg room. Here, I'll show you:


Yeah, that wall is pretty rough, but nothing that I can't fix, and paint. Of course, whenever I do something like this I find things that I hadn't foreseen, so the next step is to test it, and test it again. And so far I like it. I'll let you know how it goes.

Maybe this would be a good time to clean that mirror.

Video version:


Update: the next day: Did some light sanding and all the wall needed was a lick of paint!

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