How far do you drive to your gym?
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Not far, because I don't go to one. I do all my exercise at home or outside.1
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Within a 5 miles radius we have more than 5 gyms. The gym i go too only takes few mins, max 5mins driving there. Walk, 10mins. Some say, I just live around the corner. But hey that's how I roll
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rugratz2015 wrote: »I live about 30 miles from my gym. There are closer gyms but I would go past this every night on the way home from work so it was an incentive to go in, plus it has a pool, the others don't, or are too expensive. I was made redundant last year but still drive up most weekdays to get my workout done. I hillwalk at the weekends, which usually involves an hours drive as I live in one of the flattest parts of Ireland. If i'm serious about something I will find the time and motivation.
HA where is that? westmeath or longford or somewhere?
I walk 30-35 mins each way to gym as I've only recently bothered to try to get a driving licence.
When going with boy, it's about 5 mins drive.
There are gyms much closer which I contemplated knowing I will be mostly walking, but as above they don't have pool, they are of varying quality, so for the slightly additional cost and time, it's well worth to go to this one where I have much greater choice and better quality.0 -
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LazyButHealthy wrote: »
I think it's about expanding your mind, thinking about unusual solutions. The OP is concerned about a shorter drive to the gym and among other choices, can also now (re)consider exercising at home for the shortest drive possible. Best to just ask for details and clarification if an answer seems odd to you. You don't know if the poster used to have a normal to long drive to the gym, and had some life changes where they could either stop exercising or do something else, and maybe this was their solution.4 -
I walk maybe 50 steps from my lounge room to my basement.
There is also another gym my husband and I go to now and then which is maybe 15 km away.
But mostly we walk or cycle or I climb stairs.1 -
Curious how far you guys drive to your gym?
If I would actually drive to the gym I would have completely missed the point, wouldn't I?
Running (direct way), riding my bike (not exactly the direct way) or, with lots of time, take a walk (direct way).
Gym is about 3 miles away from my home
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About 6 miles round trip. If I had to go way out of my way to get to the gym, I'd never go. It needs to be convenient.0
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Mine is 2.8 miles, just mapped it 0
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My current gymis walking distance - it is one of the reasons why I chose it.
In the past I lived bout 20km form my then gym. The gym was chosen when I drove almost past from work. I then changed jobs but still liked it enough to stay. Then I moved house and still stayed as I knew I'd move country not long afterward (and then I did give up that gym)1 -
used to be 30 minutes when i worked from home. when i got a 'real' job i joined the gym thats in my town (my other one was in the totally opposite direction), and its about 10-15 min away and on my way to work.0
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For a while when I had a job that required commuting, I joined a gym that was near work but over an hour from my house. I would get there early in the morning before work, beating morning traffic. Now I'm working from home, and I go to a gym that is about 3 miles (5km) from my house.0
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LazyButHealthy wrote: »
I think it's part humblebrag and part people trying to project their beliefs/ideologies on others.
The most common one is when people ask for suggestions on protein powder/supplements. Inevitably, there will be several responses to the effect of "I don't need supplements because I eat REAL food."2 -
The closest gym is about 45 minute drive from me in another city. It is not on my way anywhere. I would be making the trip just to exercise. Drive 45 minutes, workout 30-60 minutes, drive home 45 minutes... too much time to do that day to day.
I exercise at home with no commute time and it works better for me.
I reply to give the perspective of someone in a small town who knows they will not consistently put the effort in to go somewhere that far away to exercise daily. If you don't mind the commute and love a gym environment go for it.4 -
About 10 miles and worth it!0
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About 3 miles. Years ago I joined a gym that was about 25 minutes away and I never wanted to go because it was an all day ordeal to drive there, work out, then drive home. The closer the gym, the easier it is for me.2
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I walk the 200m door to door.1
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I am a member of the Y and there are several around the metro. The one I go to regularly is 15 miles from my house but only 1 mile from work so I go there before work. If I want to swim or do other certain exercises that they don't offer at my regular gym then I go to the downtown Y which is about 2 miles from work. On the weekends I use the Y closer to my house (or just run around my neighborhood), about a 10 minute drive. That's also the one that we enroll my son in for activities (track right now but we have to go to the local high school for track practice anyway.
If I were to use a gym more than 10 minutes from home or work, it better be the most fantastic gym in the world.0 -
At the moment I walk as far as my living room but prior to that I has a 2 minute walk to my gym. Before I moved to my current place I has a 15 min walk from home or work to the gym I was using. I don't think I have ever driven to the gym even when it was a couple of miles away.0
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I live in a very small, rural town. Luckily, in the last year we opened a 24 hour gym that is less than a mile from my house.
Previously, I drove about 20 minutes to get to the gym.1 -
LazyButHealthy wrote: »
I think it's part humblebrag and part people trying to project their beliefs/ideologies on others.
The most common one is when people ask for suggestions on protein powder/supplements. Inevitably, there will be several responses to the effect of "I don't need supplements because I eat REAL food."
Truth.... There's always a home gym person responding to gym threads. We get it. You workout at home. Kudos.
I personally have to take a 30 to 45 minute bus ride to get to the gym. I don't drive. I live in NYC.1 -
I live pretty rural, and have 3 different gym memberships. So, it depends. 10'ish miles for two, 15'ish miles for the third. Unless I'm coming from work instead of home. Then, about 7 for the 3rd, and about 18-20 for the other two.0
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My gym is on my way home from work, so it's about a 20 minute drive. But then it's less than 10 minutes from home, so not bad on the weekends. There's a gym right across the road in the business park where I work and when I decided to join a gym I was considering it, but I'd never go on the weekends, plus I
my gym. 0 -
I just walk downstairs in my house!!! Got everything I need right here... Bowflex, Total gym and weights!!2
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About 0.4 miles. There's an LA Fitness pretty much around the corner from where I work. (along with a Catalyst Fitness and Fitness 19 further up on the same block).0
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I would order a barbell, plate set, collars, bench, and rack long before I would ever drive more than 10 minutes to get to the gym.0
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Chef_Barbell wrote: »LazyButHealthy wrote: »
I think it's part humblebrag and part people trying to project their beliefs/ideologies on others.
The most common one is when people ask for suggestions on protein powder/supplements. Inevitably, there will be several responses to the effect of "I don't need supplements because I eat REAL food."
Truth.... There's always a home gym person responding to gym threads. We get it. You workout at home. Kudos.
I personally have to take a 30 to 45 minute bus ride to get to the gym. I don't drive. I live in NYC.
We used to live quite close to a gym, so we went there. Then we moved so that it was quite a long drive or bus ride to the gym. That got old pretty quick, so we looked around at other options. None really appealed to us, so we set up a small gym in our basement.
It just seemed like the logical, least expensive, and least time consuming thing to do.
I've gone to gyms and/or have had a home gym for 30 years ... both are good options, well worth considering.0 -
Chef_Barbell wrote: »LazyButHealthy wrote: »
I think it's part humblebrag and part people trying to project their beliefs/ideologies on others.
The most common one is when people ask for suggestions on protein powder/supplements. Inevitably, there will be several responses to the effect of "I don't need supplements because I eat REAL food."
Truth.... There's always a home gym person responding to gym threads. We get it. You workout at home. Kudos.
I personally have to take a 30 to 45 minute bus ride to get to the gym. I don't drive. I live in NYC.
We used to live quite close to a gym, so we went there. Then we moved so that it was quite a long drive or bus ride to the gym. That got old pretty quick, so we looked around at other options. None really appealed to us, so we set up a small gym in our basement.
It just seemed like the logical, least expensive, and least time consuming thing to do.
I've gone to gyms and/or have had a home gym for 30 years ... both are good options, well worth considering.
Kudos again.1 -
One gym I go to is about 2 miles from home and it is between work and home...close either way, the other is 7 miles away, but I only use that for the indoor pool. I did find a class I liked that was a half hour drive away that I was willing to drive to twice a week though.0
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I would order a barbell, plate set, collars, bench, and rack long before I would ever drive more than 10 minutes to get to the gym.
That's nice for you, but some of us, myself included, need to go to a gym. I live in an 800 sq ft house with absolutely no room for any gym equipment, and the list of equipment you have here wouldn't help me. I'm disabled and need to use the cable machines and dumbbells for my workout.1
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