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Try making your gym less dark, quiet, and suffocating. Dark: add lights. Quiet: add a TV or stereo. Suffocating: not sure what this means. Fan? Air freshener? Plants, mirrors, posters, or other decor? And remember, the point is to work out (hard), not to “enjoy the scenery.” People who plod along on a treadmill or elliptical while watching Seinfeld reruns are simply wasting their time. Not trying to be harsh, but it’s true.

Strongly recommend quality home gyms for couples with kids!!!

1) Gym memberships can be had for $30/month in urban areas. I live in Edmonton, Alberta, where membership to a number of the city facilities costs $380/year ($31/month), but there are a number of discount programs available that can drop the price to around $27/month. Perhaps you need to shop around some more.

2) It’s extremely hard to predict what will happen over the next 10 years. Based on what happens with the majority of home fitness equipment, it’s reasonable to predict that most people (myself included) would get bored and stop using the equipment long before ten years has passed. At least with a gym membership, you have a way of cutting out the expense if you no longer attend.

3) I agree that free weights are an excellent choice for a home gym. They’re readily available second-hand for far less than the “brand new” cost.

4) While gas money and time might be a factor, depending on how far you live from a gym, you also have to question the logic of using gas money to drive to a gym, just so you can hop on a treadmill or exercise bike. Why not jog or bike to the gym in the first place?

5) Depending on the type of equipment you purchase, you might not need a dedicated room, but you certainly need some dedicated space. If the room has a lot of exercise equipment in it, it’s often difficult to use it for any other purpose.

6) Free weights certainly don’t wear out, but they do lose their value quite quickly. Take a look in any newspaper’s classified ads and you’ll see plenty of exercise equipment selling for far less than the cost of brand new equipment.

Some conclusions: If you want a home gym, you’ll need some space in your home to dedicate to that purpose, purchasing equipment used is a much better deal than buying new, and making exercise part of your routine (i.e. by cycling to work) is an easier way to get fit than by setting aside dedicated “exercise time” in your day.

You don’t need to spend *nearly* $3000 for home gym equipment that will allow you to do a huge variety of exercises and get in excellent shape. As I said in a previous post, see http://www.rosstraining.com. Also, consider:

1. In urban areas, gym memberships usually are much more than $30/month–more like $60 and up.
2. Even if you spend $3000 on home gym equipment and commercial gyms in your area are only $30/month, do you plan to quit working out in 10 years after the home equipment has paid for itself?
3. A lot of the equipment in a gym consists of weight machines that are (a) expensive, and (b) less than optimal for strength training (they only work in a single plane of motion, etc.–there’s been a lot of research on this.) You don’t need to use these machines at the gym, and you certainly don’t need to buy them for your home. Get free weights.
4. You neglected to factor in gas money and whatever your time is worth driving to the gym, waiting for equipment, and driving back 3-4 times a week.
5. You don’t need a “dedicated” room that’s used for working out and nothing else. A garage, basement, or rec room is fine, and the incremental “cost” of working out there (in addition to whatever else you do) is about zero.
6. Plenty of home gym equipment (e.g. weight plates, bars) doesn’t wear out and thus retains its value quit well.

Getting healthy is an investment, but it’s one that can be done with nothing more than a pair of running shoes, and perhaps some free weights. If you’d like a wide variety of exercise equipment, a gym membership (assuming it gives you good service and no contract requirements) is a cheaper way to achieve the same goals.

So Snap Fitness opened up in my area. It’s a no contract membership and situated in a plaza. It has all Cybex machines, free weights, no showers but clean. The model is that they open these places up near your house and you just walk in, workout and go home. It is also 24×7 so you can go anytime. There is only video surveillance during non-staffed hours. Besides, I’m not going to work out that late in the night anyways.

For $39.99/month, it was easily a good choice for me.

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I have a gym in my basement and I love it. I started setting it up four years ago with only a couple of pieces of gear and each year I treat myself to a few more items. I painted it red for energy, put in an old radio and have a big white board on the wall to track my progress. Used equipment is great if you can find it, and warehouse stores like Costco have quality items at good prices. Have fun with your workouts.

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You’re welcome. If anyone wants to get in excellent shape for very little money, buy Ross Enamait’s books and do his workouts. I’m not kidding, and I don’t know the guy and he’s not paying me under the table. :) All I’m saying is that his stuff will make you want to puke, but it works. You don’t even need any equipment; if you think body-weight exercises are too easy (as I thought), try a one-handed pushup or pullup. Look him up on YouTube for a sample.

There’s likely a wide spectrum of fittness levels and goals among readers of MDJ, and I wish you all great physical and financial health.

Personal thanks to Jeff for posting about http://www.rosstraining.com, what an awsome link. I’ve added learning to skip rope like a boxer as my goal for 2008.

I challenge you all to be, look and feel your best in 2008. “Don’t talk about it, be about it”.
Be accountable for your goals to your self. Take a picture or measurement or lift record by Jan 31 and work hard at improvement. Let’s all revisit this thread 1 year from now to share success stories.

TKO from Ontario

Ps Don’t trust the scale too much, it can be very deceiving and remember “Loosers always have excuses ready”.

- Bowflex – although, I want to switch to dumbbells, and that set you reference looks interesting.
- My mountain bike on a high-quality (but relatively inexpensive) fluid trainer (and what a great way to read books!)
- Just got a Fitness Anywhere TRX, read about it here: http://outside.away.com/outside/bodywork/200801/wellness-fitness-anywhere-trx.htm
- A high quality wooden hang board, from MEC
- An exercise ball
- Various medicine balls

And in the summer, I run outdoors mostly on trails, in addition to mountain biking.

And for me, the convenience of having my gym at home (no travel time, my own surround sound systems and TV, etc) not only makes it cheaper, but ensures that I work out 6 times a week.

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