The Home Gym Advantage
home gym, kettlebells, workouts
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I recently read a blog post on 'home gym vs work gym' and I gotta agree on the points of having a home gym.
1. After being a trainer in the last fitness center I worked for, and being the ONLY trainer there, I would constantly get barraged with questions during my personal workout sessions. This was okay at first with less than 100 members, but it grew into a major problem after we grew & grew to 200+, then 300+ members. Having a home gym allows you to workout whenever you have the time at home, and you have the shower right there. No gym bags to carry in, just workout in your own personal space.
2. It forces creativity. Regular gyms will have machine after machine to get you stuck into a state of boredom. With a home gym, you create it with as much versatility as you want. I recently got a squat rack/bench/pulley combination free weight station with 300# set of weights to boot. Plus I have all my kettlebells from when I did my full-time training business. Just the KB's alone offer a wide assortment of exercises, and now I have more to choose from, all within the comforts of my garage and/or living room floor. In a gym setting, you can get self-concious very easily with lots of people staring at you as you try a new exercise out, or worse, you get barraged with questions from those people, asking you about your new exercise & 'what it hits'. So, you can try the crazy-new stuff you discover and do so without any worries about what someone else thinks.
3. There's really not much room for excuses. You can't say "I couldn't make the drive to my gym in time for a workout" when you have a home gym. You simply make time, or you don't. It's your fault if you missed a workout, not the traffic or the weather.
Those are just a few key advantages I've encountered. I also like having a garage to workout of, because I have my own little gym to offer training out of my own home.
KB27
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on 8/10/2008
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