Gym or Home Work- out?

I do both but would choose home over public gym any day because well, people.

I work out at the park across the street. Occasionally, I will stop by the community gym on the way back, even though I have already done body weight exercises. Some *kitten* has been leaving out the 40lb. dumbbells, often lying on the floor right at the door. Seriously, you use 40lb. dumbbells but you can't put them back on the rack?!

Personally I've made more progress And am more consistent working out at home. I have set up a pretty nice home gym area. I have no inhibitions because there are no witnesses lol.

Home works best for me right now. I'm a homeschooling mom, so I'm home all day, anyway. When my husband was rear-ended on his motorcycle, we decided we'd just use the insurance money to pay off some bills and share what used to be my car. I don't know if I'll join the gym again when we're debt-free.

I actually have gotten to the point where I prefer working out at home, except for the fact that my children are home. And constantly interrupt, but they're learning that I find fewer chores for them to do when they let me work out uninterrupted.

Gym because I need to get away from my crazy house.

Home. Price is cheaper, no travel time, & you can't get Ebola!

baileyang33 wrote: »

Home. Price is cheaper, no travel time, & you can't get Ebola!

I can imagine the travel time to West Africa can be a bit prohibitive

I like both. I go to the gym to lift weights or to run on the treadmill in bad weather. I workout at home when I'm short on time or doing a DVD to switch things up. Though, I'm currently doing T25 so unless I work out twice a day, I probably won't make it to the gym for a couple weeks.

Pros for gym - they have bigger and better equipment than what I have at home.
Cons for gym - it's kind of far away from my home but if I go on the way home from work, it's manageable and it's a monthly fee.

Pros for home - I can wear whatever I want and don't worry about how sweaty I look or if sweat shows through my pants.
Cons for home - it's a lot easier to find an excuse to not work out.

Home. I either roll right out of bed, put on my gear/start my dvd player and go. Or once I get home, I can change and get it started and then shower and be ready in time for all of my fall tv faves.

An example of why I love working out at home was perfectly illustrated for me yesterday. I came home from work, did a quick 15-20 minute workout with my kettlebell and resistance band, and then I was right back out of the door to go to church. And once I got home, I ate, and then did a series of plank holds for about 10 minutes. I wouldn't have had time to get a workout in yesterday if I solely worked out at the gym (especially since I was too tired/lazy to wake up early enough to complete the run that I wanted to do).

However, I do enjoy doing classes. I've completed a few kettlebell classes, and I have now personally committed myself to going to 1 class a week. I like it because there is an instructor to make sure that I'm doing my form correctly, there are a lot more kettlebells at my disposal there, and there is always a new routine to do.

I used to go to the gym and loved it. Then I moved and the new gym came nowhere close to the beautiful old one, which had a swimming pool and sauna.

I built my own home gym with elliptical, spin bike, bench, weights, elastic bands, gym ball...and now I would not even dream of trying to find a new gym.

For me there are less distractions at home, no friends to chat to...I can watch my own movie or turn up the music without the need of head phones. No travel time and quite often I throw in a session inbetween other things that I would not have done if I needed to first get to a gym.
Stef.

Home.

Outdoors, Squat Rack, Floor, Barbell, Dumbbells, Bands, Ball, Treadmill, DVDs by Cathe, Ilaria Montagnani, Rodney Yee, Shiva Rea.

Granted, these items are spread through three rooms in my house, so efficiency is not necessarily the name of the game.

FYI - Most studies show we get better workouts with free-weights than with machines.

I do most of my lifting from the floor or rack, and actually tossed my lifting bench. I have shoulder issues and appreciate the hard stop available with the floor that keeps me from hyper movements, such as with flys and chest presses.

Unless you are an Olympic or Power lifter, I see no reason for a gym membership. Considering my rack was free, I have saved a lot of money over the last 10 years by working out at home versus a membership. Even if the rack had cost money, I would still be ahead.

Right now, I like the gym. Mainly because I live in an apartment, and the workout center there is terrible. I love having space and a variety of machines to work out with. Ideally, I would love to have an at home gym basement, but for the meantime, I enjoy my time at the gym.

I love the gym as I have a lot of friends there, and with everyone else working out, it sort of motivates me to work harder or run faster.

But I always think about having a mini gym in my room all the time - I'm worried I wont be motivated though, and it will all just collect dust

With it being colder now, I would love to workout in my room. But I have just spent £150 on new nike workout clothing for the gym... Ha