Why Setup a Home Gym
Over the past decade, gymnasiums in Britain have exploded, making millionaires out of leisure industry barons Duncan Bannatyne and David Lloyd. Previously associated with steroid popping gorillas, fitness suites are now home to a complete range of men and women, young and old. So whilst you are forking out hundreds of pounds a year to be a member of a continuously overpopulated gym, which you rarely have time to visit, does a part of you ache for a simple solution? The advent of the home gym is the very answer that many of you will be looking for. With equipment to suit all ranges of ability and requirements, setting up a home gym is becoming a serious alternative.
So why set up a home gym? Well for starters, in comparison to the mammoth costs that nowadays accompany any gym membership, subtracting the initial costs, the home gym proves by far the cheaper alternative. Depending on what type of fitness suite you are planning, you can even save money in your first year and from then on in you aren't being stung for monthly direct debits of upwards of £60.
Another reason why to set up a home gym, is the convenient nature behind it. Once installed your gym is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. No longer will you find yourself frustrated and the short stay you are allowed due to refurbishment or bank holiday closing times. By creating your own area to train you are making your fitness regime fully independent and increasing the time able to commit to training.
By setting up a home gym, assuming that you tear up your fitness suite card at the same time, you will immediately remove all the exasperating elements associated with going to the gym. Waiting hours for a machine, having to compete with six other guys for a weights bench and wiping someone else's sweat off a machine start to become a distant memory as you relax into your own personal work out centre.
The list of reasons why to set up a home gym proves compelling reading and is compounded by the avoidance of any paperwork and admin that is the last thing that anyone seeking a work out wants. Signing on fees, cancellation fees, direct debits, 12-month contracts, gold cards, locker cards, shower tokens, deposits, the list is endless. All this jargon is finally forgotten and the only person you answer to is yourself.
This is not to say that there aren't some disadvantages with setting up a home gym. The obvious one off payment to begin with is daunting for those who are not entirely sure how often they will use the facilities. It also can lack the social contact of going down the gym. Often, attending your sports club can be a valuable time for catching up with friends, which can't be replicated at home.
Once deciding to set up a home gym it is important to decide what you wish to fill the space set aside with. On the whole users will try to focus on one side of fitness, either resistance training or cardiovascular training. As soon as you try and combine the two, things can become a bit claustrophobic and you can lose direction. If you are chasing weight loss and endurance training then two or three aerobic machines should suffice in completing the start of your home gym. Particularly good, are exercise bikes and rowing machines, as they both take up a limited amount of space, as are easy to move when required.
The final consideration when setting up a home gym is by the far the most important. Tediously this is safety, however by flaunting basic procedures you could not only seriously injure yourself but also nullify any insurance. The first step is to ensure that all heavy weights or machines are set up on the ground floor, needless to say how dangerous a 18 stone man on a treadmill on the first floor could be to anyone stood below. There also needs to be a great deal of thought and analysis before you commit to setting up a home gym. There is no use spending £150 on a ready-to-go bench press if you live alone and have no one to spot you. Finally, you must ensure that you are properly trained in the use of all equipment that you purchase and try to avoid training when feeling lethargic, sore or when you are alone.