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Home Workout Gym
A Home Workout Gym Provides More Accessibility
and is More Cost Effective than a Local Gym Membership
By: Mark J. Donovan
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A home workout gym is the
best solution for ensuring regular exercise. A spare bedroom, basement
or garage is the ideal location for a home workout gym. A home gym
doesn’t need to cost a fortune to be effective for keeping the weight
off and maintaining a strong and healthy body.
Maintaining a healthy weight and an active life style involves eating
right and working out regularly. Most everyone today knows what and how
much to eat to maintain a proper and healthy diet.
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Unfortunately, most of us choose to
eat the high calorie junk food more often than we should. In regards to
exercise, however, many of us are not as sure to what’s the best solution for
providing access to regular exercise. More often than not well intentioned
people sign up at a local gym, start off with a bang using it a few times in the
first week, and then slowly peter out in the ensuing weeks. Eventually they end
up not going for weeks at a time, until they inevitably just stop going
altogether.
The main reasons they end up no longer going is it simply takes too much time to
drive to and from the gym, and they feel compelled to dress for the occasion. In
total, a local drive to the gym and back, along with 45 minutes of exercise, can
easily consume an hour and a half out of a person’s day. Much too long for
today’s busy lifestyles.
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A home workout gym, on the other
hand, saves time and doesn’t require you looking your best. It’s also as
convenient as heck, and is not as expensive as one might think, particularly
when you consider the monthly membership fee of a gym over a few years. With
some basic weight lifting and cardiovascular equipment you can set up a home
workout gym for under $5,000. If you look for used equipment you can cut that
figure by at least half. Or, if your exercise plans involve mainly Yoga or
Pilates, then your equipment budget need not be more than the cost of a few mats
and an exercise ball.
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If you want to build out a reasonable
home workout gym, however, I highly recommend some free weights along with a
treadmill, stair stepper, and/or elliptical machine. Between the free weights
and a cardio vascular machine you’ll have all the equipment you need to obtain
adequate strength and aerobic training. To fully flesh out the home workout gym,
I’d also recommend a stereo system, and television, along with some soft and
warm flooring material, e.g. outdoor carpeting or rubberized matting. Having a
comfortable and enjoyable home workout gym is the key to keeping you coming back
to it every day.
In regards to the free weights, you should include at a minimum a barbell bench
press with a leg curl extension unit, a combo lat/row machine, adjustable
dumbbells, an assortment of weight plates, and a stand for holding the weight
plates.
Photos by Mark Donovan
If you are into Yoga you may also want
to consider including dimmer controls for the lighting as they can help set the
mood for mediation by dimming the lights.
In regards to an aerobic machine, it’s always wise to spend a little extra to
get a high quality one. I highly recommend getting commercial grade cardio
equipment, e.g. equipment that is really meant for public gyms. A stair stepper
will probably give you the most bang for your buck. A quality tread mill, on
the other hand, can set you back several thousand dollars. My recommendation,
if you can afford it, is to buy both, as they each provide unique benefits. An
elliptical machine is also a fantastic aerobic machine, and in my opinion could
be used as an alternative to buying both the stair stepper and treadmill. Its
elliptical motion somewhat combines the movement of a stair stepper with a
treadmill.
So before you go out and sign a contract for a local gym membership fee again
consider making an investment in your own home workout gym. If you buy quality
gym equipment it will last for years and you will be more likely to use it,
particularly if you include the creature comforts.
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