You've likely seen that Annabelle and myself have been keeping ourselves fit using our trampoline, well disaster struck yesterday, nobody was hurt however the trampoline is out of action.
For the last eight weeks I have been building up from one minute jumping all the way up to 20 minutes and this is twice a day, Annabelle has also been doing similar, now we realised last week we probably should have been jumping in either bare feet, socks or something like slippers. However this has not been the case and we've been using walking boots and I have been using Wellington bobbles.
This has had a detrimental effect not solely because the trampoline is coming up to being around five years old, but it has been a major part of our exercise routine during lockdown, it was the perfect thing to use to lose weight and stay fit and get ready to come back stronger as Planet Auto.
I was happily jumping around when BANG, I had headphones on and heard this quite clearly, Mum had already leapt up and Annabelle was on her way at high speed out of the house.
One of the springs had just snapped another 71 were still intact however this sounded like literally a bomb going off and it propelled itself towards mums Peugeot luckily stopping short of it.
I stopped jumping immediately, it also triggered us to look into the state of the trampoline the frame, the remaining springs and the jump matt.
We noticed the jump matt had a very small hole in and on closer inspection we noticed a number of the springs were excessively stretched and others were corroded.
Our trampoline is a 12 foot wide one has 72 springs.
We decided today to buy a full set of new springs and a jump mat, over the last eight weeks we've increased our usage tenfold, therefore this seemed like the right thing to do.
The parts have been ordered and we expect them in the coming days and then we can get back to getting fit and toning ready for the new reviews on that note 1 of our manufacturers contacted us to say they be would starting their Press fleet up.
Tomorrow I'm going to remove all the existing springs throw any with excessive stretch, corrosion or any damage, I am also going to clean up the frame and clear the area underneath, weed it etc.
Well I do need to work out somehow.
When the parts arrive I will write another post explaining what we did.