Greatest benefits of having a home gym
Here are 25 benefits I could find:
- Access to fitness equipment in your own home can eliminate the hurdles, just in getting to the gym and keeping you from reaching your fitness goals.
- You can save time. When you factor in packing and unpacking a gym bag, drive time to and from the gym, and waiting in line for machines, a half-hour workout could easily turn into a two-hours.
- You can exercise with your whole family, not paying membership fees.
- A home gym allows you to skip the lines and the commute, giving you a stress-free, effective workout in half the time.
- You can exercise at any time that works for you.
- You can wear any clothing you want or not!
- One does not need to be intimidated or afraid of what other people think.
- The possibilities are endless in designing your own home gym in terms of the range of equipment.
- If the weather is stopping you from going to the gym, this will solve the problem and it is far safer.
- There is no need to be embarrassed, being over or underweight. No one is judging you.
- Hygiene!, need I say more? Hopping onto a bench or seat covered in someone else’s sweat is just wrong!
- No chance of athlete’s foot from the change rooms or showers.
- Can exercise on a budget.
- In between your reps, you can rest and catch up on some e-mails.
- You can listen to the music you want, without earpieces or watch TV.
- Exercise rooms work and will be cheaper than gym contracts.
- Personal trainers can come to you, and teach you with your own equipment.
- Train at your own time, not limited to “after hours/peak time.
- One can train outside or inside.
- One can stop where you want, leaving all your settings as you left them.
- You can have all the supplements and shakes you want, line up.
- You can stay on a machine as long as you want.
- You can hop from cardio work to weight work – super setting!
- Home exercise rooms don’t have to have the latest machines or weights. Alternative exercises can be done.
- If you have a swimming pool or plunge pool, you can take a dip in-between sessions.
