Home Gym Machines Vs Gym Memberships

If you are a follower of all the top weight loss blogs, one thing that you will always notice is lots of them use home gym machines as an aid for fat loss. Home gyms are becoming more and more popular because the quality is getting better and the prices are going down. Why pay hundreds and hundreds of pounds for expensive gym memberships when the only piece of equipment that you use when you get in is possibly the weights or the cardio equipment. I was a member of a gym for many years. In fact my gym membership was fantastic because you paid one fee and everything was thrown in. Swimming was free, all the exercise classes were free such as boxercise and spinning. You got free use of the saunas and steam rooms.

This was fantastic but have guess what were the only pieces of equipment I used all the time I was going there. It was the weights and exercise bike. So with this in my mind I thought I could buy all the equipment I use for the price of  one to two years gym memership and that’s what I did. One of the main reasons why I didn’t use all the other stuff in the gym. Was because I simply didn’t have the time. Let’s say I went to the gym did a one hour gym session, then did a one hour spin class. After that I went for a swim and to finish it off I relaxed in the sauna for 30 minutes. Whilst this sounds fantastic it just wasn’t relistic because of the hectic life that I lead.

When I first started training at the gym I was like a kid in a candy store and used everything because I was thinking I’m paying for it so why not get your monies worth out of it. But I quickly realised that I was spending hours and hours in the gym, which meant other aspects in my life were suffering. Don’t get me wrong working out in a nice warm or air conditioned gym is much better than working out in my home gym which is a 16ft x 10 ft wooden shed in my back garden. But what I like most about my home gym machines are they do exactly the same job as the expensive gym membership, if not better. Because I haven’t got the distractions that I had, whilst I was going to a commercial gym. What I like most about training at home is I can be in and out of the gym in less than an hour. Which is the ultimate reason why I would choose my home gym machines over any expensive gym membership any day of the week.