Gym or Home?

If I could afford a gym I think I would really like to go, but I'd probably want to workout at home a lot too.

I'm a very shy person, and I'd probably be very self conscious at first, but I think being where other people could see me woud motivate me to keep going, cause I wouldn't want them to see me quit! :laugh:

Home, outside, or the pool. I stopped going to the gym after college. I couldn't find one in my area I liked to go to. My husband and I have bikes, trainers so we can ride them inside if it's raining, and plenty of DVDs to keep us occupied. I live in Western Washington so no rain can keep me from a good run and it's always nice to step into the pool for an hours swim after freezing your butt off on the run over

Home. I have a treadmill in the basement so I'll use that or I'll run or bike from home. I have to drive to the pool, though. I try to fit that in on my way to or from work. I don't belong to a gym although having weights would be nice for strength training.

I like the gym because there are more options there and more room than at my house, and I feel like I *have* to use it if I'm paying for it.

definitely the gym! It truly is a better choice for myself... I applied and received a scholarship for the fitness center I go to after doing some pt on my knee after a car accident.

I deal alot with depression and am on disability due to that and anxiety....so without the gym, my social contacts can really be nil.... it took ALOT for me to push myself to go anywhere before I started at the gym.... well, quite frankly I was to scared to go anywhere other than to see my therapist.

So for me.....the workouts have saved my life many times over in a zillion different ways....I now have awesome friends that I'm not afraid to go out and do things with like in the past....I have so much in common with my gym rat buds...and frankly would spend all my time at the gym if I could. :laugh: :drinker:

I do Yoga at the gym but I also do it twice a day at home and have some excercise vids here at home I do as well........pushups, crunches things that way I do at home if I don't fit them in at the gym...

So I say whatever works best for each of us....:flowerforyou:

both, but I do it at home.

and you're looking great/fit btw...if I may add that here:drinker:

I think I would make excuses if I could/did work out at home.

The gym seems to be more motivating, good equipment, relaxed and take my time, take a shower afterward and go from there. (The gym I goto is in a central location which makes it much easier) I find it much easier just to pack my bag and go from there. Once I am in the routine it makes it so much easier. Also next week I am going away to Dominican and need to go tanning every other day, So once I'm already there it helps.

I loved the gym... but now I cant afford it. I loved being held accountabl by my other workout buddies. At home Im just not motivated... Does anyone have any thing that will help motivate me at home?

Get a workout buddy on here... Each day you let each other know how you did. Or join a challenge, they can be motivating...

I did home for the last 4 months, but I'm ready to do the local activity center because of their equipment- it's stuff I don't have, It's not very busy there at all. I had a YMCA membership, but it was $50 a month, and you had to wait for machines because it was so busy. The local activity center is $50 a YEAR.

That's a bite when you head on over and you have to wait around to get on a machine...I can feel your frustration.:grumble:

Fortunately at my fitness center I must time it right, plus my scedule is more open than some so I can go at off peek hours...so that can help hugely!

Glad you found a new place that is much less busy....who needs to get more stress when they go to workout to reduce stress..right?:bigsmile: Good luck at your new place of workout:drinker:

The machines are better at the gym and mine is right next to work so I'm not allowed to go home until I work-out. The classes are also more motivating since you're working out with other people and since you've got an instructor and the music. It's just more dynamic and I tend to push myself more and to work out more intensley. Also, the gym has better strength training options that, in my experience, no home gym can match.

Home is certainly more convenient and I still walk on the treadmill in front of some of my shows or do an occasional video but I find it's easier to talk myself out of it at home or to work less intently.