The Beginnings of a Home Gym

Folks, it's been almost 15 weeks since I started my fitness journey and it's been amazing. I'm loving it. 

I've been doing my workouts in our living room. 

It's been ok. I have to get set up each time. 

I've been storing my stuff behind one of the chairs. 

I have to roll up my yoga mat (my old one) and tuck it back behind the chair as well.

You can kind of see it in the top of this pic. All kind of just shoved in a corner. 

I'd face the TV and have my laptop set up on a little table near by.  I mean, it worked but it was not super convenient.

After my workout, I'd have to put all my stuff away.

And my new workout mat is just huge, so it was time to figure something out.

Luckily for us, our basement is huge and is a walkout. We have windows and doors. 

It's just...not...in any shape to do anything in. I mean. Steve legit stores his mower in the basement during the winter months. We also store our summer/patio furniture down there too...which makes me wonder what he's gonna do if I'm taking over some space...

Anyway, we had a ton of shit to get rid of. Tons of baby clothes (I know, I know), just miscellaneous junk. I took the time to organize some of it and put some of our stuff away in plastic containers (instead of the cardboard boxes they were in for the last 10 years...I'm surprised the boxes haven't disintegrated!)

Don't mention the baby crib...and stroller...

Purge!

Reorganized a lot of our stuff and put it away in plastic bins

My cleaned up corner. We are looking to put a large mirror up against the wall next to the window. Luckily we know a glass guy. 

So yeah. It's clearly nothing fancy. Borderlines being worse than outside lol. I might get a carpet pad (a LARGE ONE) to put under my workout mat. The concrete floor can be brutal if I'm doing floor stuff. 

It works for now. Steve thinks I'm nuts for wanting to put up motivational posters or something else to try to dress it up. I know, it's like putting lipstick on a pig. But, if I spend time down here every single day, why not try to spruce it up a little? I also want to get a plant to put down here with me. 

At least now I don't have to put everything away and can just leave it all be. 

Any ideas on how to make it nicer? I mean, without renovating anything? 

I can't paint over the styrofoam. The way our house was built...there's poured concrete in between the styrofoam "unusually high up" as per the house blueprints. (One thing that Steve loved about the construction of our house). I'm thinking of affixing posters and other wall hanging type decals or fixtures or plants. That might at least help my mindset as I'm working out ;)