How much money do you spend on being Fit??

well i think i spend far less on being fit than what i was spending on being fat! not to mention long-term costs (health insurance, illnesses, meds, etc.) for being overweight would eventually add up. health food is a bit more expensive, but i eat less of it, and if i feel better overall, i think it's worth every penny! interesting you actually broke it down. maybe i will later when i have had more sleep. LOL

Running shoes - $10
Rebounder - $35
Hand weights -Free! (used to belong to my brother)
Resistance tubes - $15
Cycling machine - Free again!! (It was a gift)
Total = $60

I also have a Netflix account that I use for workout videos, but we use it for so many other things I don't really count it. I don't make a lot of money (so I can't afford a gym membership or a lot of home workout equipment), but it's not hard to lose weight on a budget.

Lets see. I spend about $250 for my gym membership per year (college rec center). Its a very nice, needless to say. My shoes, my boyfriend bought me. I bought my hand weights, $35. Other than that I borrow my workout dvds from friends. I recently just started Insanity and I have done one month of P90X.

I was thinking about how much money I spend on staying fit and was curious if I was spending more or less than other MFPers. My breakdown is as follows:

Yearly Vitamins - 1920
Yearly Protein Bars - 520
Yearly Gym Membership - 450

Fitness DVDs - 360
Home Gym Equipment - 7010

Of course none of this factors in shopping for special foods and eating right.

Yearly Vitamins - $200
Yearly Protein Bars - $0
Yearly Gym Membership - $720 (family membership and childcare included)

Fitness DVDs - $0
Home Gym Equipment - $0

Clothing- $150
Shoes- $150

I've had many people think that I spend a ton of money on staying/being fit. I spend less on it than my fricking yearly car insurance.

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shoes= 160 dollars
clothes= 300 dollars (i like to wear nice clothes to workout lol gimme a break!)
workout dvds= i got off friends
gym= free gym at hospital

Not as much as I spent on being fat..... No more obscene bar tabs, no more drive thru, no more junk food aisle at the grocery store... The amount of money I spent on my running shoes could have easily been spent on a weekend of drinking, and I'm definitely not buying new sneakers every Friday.

I spend a lot.
But balanced with what I save, I come out way ahead.
CONCLUSION: I make money being fit!

How much money do you spend on being fit??

Less than it would take to spend on high health/medical costs from being out of shape, overweight and ending up with things like HBP, heart disease, diabetes, etc.

Also, less than it would take for a therapy session every week to help me to alleviate stress in my life.

Exercise does so much for the body.

I spend $40/mo for gym membership
$35/mo on protein
$20/mo on supplements/vitamins

So that's about $1140/yr... add in some workout clothes/shoes... prolly about $1300..

Now take away all the junk food I don't buy, the fast food I don't eat, the new clothes I don't buy because my other ones are too small.... PRICELESS!!!

that's not too bad, i would rather invest in being fit than living to be out of shape

Wow! I need to spend more. My grocery bill is still the same, I'm just making different choices. I bought all my workout clothes at Walmart and even though I lost 20lbs, I'm still wearing them 2 1/2 yrs later. I spent $50 on shoes and was already spending $120 per year for the gym when I started my weight loss journey. But I did spend a fortune on a new wardrobe, especially my work clothes probably around $4,000.

Monthly crossfit memebership $180
Regular gym membership $103 a month (family membership)

Around 3396 then a year for just gym memberships. Throw in fitness clothes and misc equipment for stuff at home and it probably rounds out to 3700 a year.

I really don't spend that much.

In the beginning, I bought a weight set for about $300, a DVD set for about $150, and running shoes for $100. I might have spent $150 or so on workout clothes. And that's it. I wouldn't consider food as extra since I have to eat anyway. I don't eat that differently anyway. I was never really a fast food/junk food person anyway. My problem had always been eating out a restaurants for every single meal. That gets expensive. So, I save money now.

Since my income hasn't changed, I would say that if I wasn't spending money on health related items, I'd just spend them on something else. So, it's not net new stuff. It's just changing my priorities. But, as you can see, compared to some of you, I'm a lightweight.

Food, vitimins, and bars, I would buy anyway so I don't consider that specifically health stuff.

I replace my shoes about every 3 to 6 months, depending how much I am running, but other than that, since my start up, I haven't spent a dime.

When I first started, I had a gym membership...it's not a gym, but more of a club. It cost me $69/mo. So, it was expensive. Ditching that cost was the best thing I ever did. There are gyms around here I would love to join and they are only like $9/mo. But, they are really ghetto. So, I just can't do it.

I have been thinking a lot about joining Cross Fit. I might. It seems like it's my style of workout and fitness.

I forgot about my half-marathon this year. That was around $150, and I ran a Turkey Trot (10K) in November, that was around $50).

About $600 a year on hiking boots and trail runners.

$7/month for my BodyMedia online subscription.

$20 here and there for a new exercise video.

I've had free weights at home for almost 20 years now. If I want to go to a gym, I can use the one at the university where I work for free.

Tons. I have a trainer, I go to a small private gym, I want to look cute working out so I spend money on clothing. I run, each race costs between $150-300. I'm even thinking about getting cellulite treatments. But, for me, it's worth it. I'll go without other things instead. I don't care what my car looks like, for example. I just pick and choose.